VDH: An Insidious Estrangement

Victor Davis Hanson, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt this week:

HH: Last question, Victor Davis Hanson, we have an obvious change of government in
Israel upon us this week or so. Is this going to be, with a conservative government led by Netanyahu, good for world stability or destabilizing? 

When you start to see the Samantha Power appointment, the would-be Charles Freeman appointment, the $1 billion dollar rebuilding program for Hamas-controlled
Gaza, the efforts to speak with the Iranians and the Syrians without preconditions, sort of some rhetoric, I just think that Netanyahu is going to give the Obamaites the reason they need to distance ourselves from
Israel. I really believe that.  

The most telling phrase in that answer was giving the Obamaites “the reason they need.”  As J. Lichty and Dan note, we’ve seen this movie before.