Will Democrats blame Israel for Kamala Harris’s defeat?

One of the few western nations where public opinion was in favour of Donald Trump returning to the White House is Israel. Israelis trust him as the man who recognised Jerusalem as their capital, moved the US embassy there, recognised Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and said that settlement-building was not per se against international law. So most Israelis regard a second Trump term as good news for their country, its security and its relationship with the United States. That might be the case in what we see from his new administration, but Trump’s re-election could prove in the longer term to be a fracture point between the United States and Israel.

Progressives have lost and when progressives lose they look outwards rather than inwards for the culprit. There will be plenty of recriminations around Joe Biden and his failure to make way for another candidate sooner, and around the decision to install the ineffectual Kamala Harris as the nominee.