Imagine Mike Mansfield, Senate Majority Leader in the 1970s, calling for the collapse of the parliamentary government in Great Britain; or Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole calling for a new government in Australia in the 1990s. You can’t. Because it would have been unthinkable to them. In our lifetimes, the only governments our public officials ever suggest should be replaced by their populaces are authoritarian and totalitarian ones.

Israel is neither, to put it mildly. But Israel is a problem—for Democrats, in 2024. Or at least they believe it is, and Biden has been trying to split the baby since October 7. The administration says and acts as though Israel has the right to defend itself, and has backed its stated policy of destroying Hamas. But the Bidenites don’t want their leftist and Arabist and progressive constituencies to get so mad they will stay home or vote for Trump. ...

The highest-ranking Jewish elected official in American history just used his status and his standing to provide cover to Biden for his “trash Bibi while supporting Israel” plan. And in so doing, he has defamed the Jewish state, he has slandered its legitimately elected prime minister, he has made outrageous and unseemly demands of a democratic ally, and he has turned himself into Biden’s Luca Brasi—a designated political hit man in service of a disingenuous argument.