For the duration of his presidency, writes John Podhoretz, Donald Trump has sided with Israel. Yet not all American Jews—sometimes out of genuine concern, sometimes more disingenuously—think this is a good thing. It is in this context that Podhoretz weighs the reaction of American Jews to the president’s statement that Jews who support Democrats are “disloyal”:

Considering the current state of the region and the policy mistakes of the recent past, David Pollock and Robert Satloff outline a strategy that is “both virtuous and realistic” for defending human rights and encouraging democratization in a region plagued by autocracy, chaos, and brutality. They argue that “in the long run, more democratic, tolerant, and inclusive governments are likely to be better at defending themselves, and more reliable and effective security partners for the United States.”