A WSJ op-ed wonders about a Jewish (or pseudo-Jewish) president

I always thought it was too obvious to spell out, but apparently it isn’t: A Jew in the White House would not be good for the Jews. Because the tendency of Jews in power is to bend over backwards to prove evenhandedness–an opportunity that most often presents itself in the context of the Middle East. It becomes the Jewish politician’s complex to prove that a Jew is capable of governing without favoring the “Jewish side”–the first result of which is an unobjectively paranoid policy that sells Israel down the river

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