Goldblog reader Max Socol writes, in reference to the Cuba
Lobby's smothering of a nascent Cuba-Israel dialogue:  I sense a
trend coming.  First the Emergency Committee for Israel backs
Pat Toomey, who voted multiple times against economic aid to
Israel, because his rival is bad for Israel.  Then Eric Cantor,
champion of the land, tries to make it easier to vote against
aid to Israel.  Then pro-Israel (Congresswoman) Ros-Lehtinen
smothers in its cradle a potentially fruitful diplomatic opening
for Israelis.    I'm already trying to figure out how and when
the so-pro-Israel-they're-anti-Israel crowd will get even more
pro-Israel, such that they circle all the way back around to
actually being pro-Israel again.  What will that brave new world
even look like?  More on this later, but Socol is on to
something interesting: Ostensibly pro-Israel Republicans who, in
their desire to defeat the Democrats on every front, actually
wind up hurting Israel. The Netanyahu government understood very
well that Fidel Castro's