Here's what I think @mehdirhasan doesn't understand: In the United States, polls don't make policy. Policymakers do. Screaming, shouting, and protesting are cute, and exercising all of your freedoms of speech in defense of the Palestinians is admirable. But Mehdi is just a spectator. He's a professional spectator, jawboner, and bloviator, so he has no idea how government, diplomacy, negotiation, or strategic alliances actually work. No amount of public support in polling or public protest will influence how or when those in power drastically change Israel policy. Mehdi can hate U.S. policy toward Israel all he wants, whether it's being carried out by a Democratic or Republican president. But public opinion polls don't dictate American foreign policy. Never have. Never will. Netanyahu agrees with @mehdirhasan and has explicitly said Israel should phase out the financial component of U.S. military aid and ultimately bring it down to zero. Israel can stand on its own. That measly $3.8 billion in annual U.S. security assistance is one component of a much broader strategic relationship with Israel that will NEVER be reversed. Ending that financial assistance wouldn't, by itself, end the U.S.-Israel alliance or the decades-long security, intelligence, defense, and diplomatic relationship between the two countries. Military aid or no military aid, the fundamental question for American policymakers remains the same: What relationship with Israel best serves U.S. interests in the Middle East? Good debate to have. But he and his friends are delusional if they think the goal of U.S. policy is or will ever be to subjugate Israel—or suddenly recast a longstanding democratic ally and strategic partner as an American adversary on par with Putin's Russia. They can advocate for changing U.S. policy toward Israel (also delusional, btw). That's entirely legitimate. But ending military aid is not the same thing as ending the U.S.-Israel strategic relationship, much less turning Israel into an enemy of the United States.