2012 is shaping up to be the election year when both parties seek the endorsement of PM Benjamin Netanyahu and promise to throw Israel ever more money and support.There have been reports that PM Netanyahu will visit with Bob Turner (NY-9) while in New York. Turner you will recall out-pandered the Democratic candidate David Weprin on Israel. Rick Perry yesterday gave a speech that sounded like he might run for the Knesset and the Republicans are tripping all over themselves to actually make Israel the 51st state. Here

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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