MY STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

The Sunday N.Y. Times featured a front-page article on the pro-Israel support on the American Right. It is a broad coalition including the traditionally pro-Israel neo-cons, Christian culture warriors, and even the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal (eschewing the idea of basing foreign policy on purely economic needs). In contrast, the American activist Left has turned virulently anti-Israel, from its embrace of the university divestment campaign to the inclusion of the Palestinian cause in the polyglot anti-globalization movement.

For a pro-Israel liberal, the past few months have become a Bizzaro world - with all of my ideological compatriots ranging from "even-handed" to anti-Israel, I find Alan Keyes, Gary Bauer, and Tucker Carlson making sense. The question this raises is a serious one: What is about this issue that cause the Left to lose its moral beraings, and the Right (with few exceptions) to find its?