Eli Lake, Columnist

AIPAC Is Smart to Sidestep Netanyahu’s Annexation Push

America’s biggest pro-Israel lobby can accept that some U.S. lawmakers don’t approve.

June 12, 2020 at 1:00 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Targeted for annexation.
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The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has had an unenviable task in recent years. AIPAC was created to support and strengthen the U.S.-Israel relationship. But during the past two presidential administrations, a bipartisan consensus on what such support entails and whether it should be offered at all has eroded.

The most recent example of this challenge involves Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex portions of the West Bank.