The "pro-Israel" crowd is actually anti-Israel

I think Matt Yglesias gets it just about right:

In short, American unwillingness to negotiate is seriously compromising Israeli security. It's only once this is taken as a given that the United States is suddently expected to act militarily on Israel's behalf when timely diplomacy could have achieved a better result at lower cost. My suspicion continues to be that "pro-Israel" outfits and their funders on some level want the Middle East to be perpetually unstable and Israel to be perpetually at risk. Hawkish American Jews, after all, pay few if any of the costs of such a dynamic. In the meantime, it gives some meaning to their hobbyist's enthusiasm for advocacy on behalf of Israel.