I wasn't saying it was an excuse,just that it could be worse. You could have liberal Jews that even hate Israel and I think that is now the case with many of them.
I think many Jews here send money to Israel out of guilt maybe or a sense of obligation...
I think politically that Israel benefits most from the influence of Conservative Jews and Conservative Christians who give both money and political capital to the effort..as well they should.
I don't think liberal American Jews much care for the Likuud or Sharon or Bibi....and they never liked Begin either or Shamir.
Their vision of Israel is the old romantic socialist Ben-Gurion not the rightwing warriors