“establishment Republicans who were not comfortable with Israel or Jewish symbols”
That’s funny. Seems to me it’s always Republicans who want Israel to do what it wants, while Dems give lip service to “Jews” and back-stab Israel every chance they get against their precious Moslems.
Country club republicans and libs have lots in common.
The first President Bush had a very tense relationship with Israel. Among other things, he withheld loan guarantees that Israel needed to absorb the large numbers of Soviet Jews who were immigrating in protest over Israel’s policies in the West Bank. His Secretary of State, James Baker, crystallized his attitude by saying “fuck the Jews, they don’t vote for us anyway.” Nixon, Reagan, and G.W. Bush were all very pro-Israel. Bush I was an exception.