The American problem with Israel - and American and Israeli politicians and lobbyists know this - is that Americans have absolutely no long-term memory or long-term position about it. We're mad for exactly the duration necessary to show smoke-filled clouds, anguished parents speaking Arabic, some square-jawed merciless IDF spokesman and then we're done. News cycle changes, fresh outrage is manufactured, and everyone defaults to their long-term comfy story of Israel - a bastion of freedom that is unfortunately dependent on crushing Palestinians, who aren't a country anyway, and America was founded by "settlers" so how can they be bad in the West Bank, besides they speak English, and you know at least a few people who have been to Israel but who's ever been to Gaza except journalists?

Know who remembers?

Yang’s tweet was posted one day after Politico New York reported that he was close to “locking down almost universal support among leaders of New York City’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community — a loyal bloc of voters that can make or break a campaign.”