US midterm results herald upheaval in Middle East policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : For generations, US support for Israel has been sacrosanct in Washington, transcending party divisions.
58% : "The fact is that Israel was a huge factor in election results, especially in Michigan.
57% : Vance, who hails from the isolationist wing of the party, has expressed some scepticism of the exceptional relationship with Israel, warning the country in June that the US was its "only powerful ally".
49% : A Republican-led bill that would deepen the integration of the US and Israel's defence industries will face major hurdles to passage.
48% : But, sensing the public groundswell, the president blindsided both parties and the Israeli government on the morning of the vote when he told Fox News the US would end its annual $3.8bn assistance for Israel.
47% : After Tuesday's result, however, the energy appears on the side of new members such as El-Sayed. "See, they try to call you hateful if you believe that Palestinian kids should get to grow up in the land of their forefathers without being murdered by our tax dollars," the senator-elect told a room packed progressives, some adorned with the colours of the Palestinian flag and keffiyehs.
44% : A July poll by the Pew Research Center found that 62 per cent of Americans had an unfavourable view of Israel's far-right government, including an overwhelming majority of Democrats.
43% : "Our historic relationship with Israel was based on our respect for the Jewish democratic state, and it was also based on them being an ally against a threatening Arab world around it that was perceived by the United States as essential to the flow of oil.
42% : Their number will include leftist progressives who will demand a radical reshaping of America's relationship with Israel, bolstered by a mandate for change expressed by voters from Michigan to Texas who are angry at America's latest entanglement in the Middle East and its cost.
42% : During the midterms, the shifting political ground on foreign policy was most obvious in Michigan, where Democrat Abdul El-Sayed won a Senate race after a campaign that sought to tie America's high living costs to US financial support for Israel and the Iran war.
40% : It was a demonstration of the coming battles within a Republican Party underpinned heavily by the support of pro-Israel groups as it grapples with a shattering defeat in an election where Israel featured prominently.
38% : But after an election in which Israel's war in Gaza and Netanyahu's role in drawing the US into Iran have been electoral flashpoints, the vote's fallout could be even more profound, said Welch.
36% : " His shift was too late to stop El-Sayed, an outspoken critic of Israel, from being elected a US senator.
34% : Americans voted for Democrats because they "were angry", Vance wrote in his statement, and wanted leaders to end the war, bring down the cost of living, put "America first" and "change our relationship to Israel".
34% : American public opinion towards Israel has dropped dramatically in recent years, as voters recoiled at the death toll and devastation from its war in Gaza.
30% : He has declined to condemn rightwing political commentator Tucker Carlson, who has accused Israel of genocide and peddled antisemitic tropes.
22% : The new Democratic majority could push to end "unrestricted aid" to Israel and compel Trump to end his war in Iran.
14% : American voters -- including vice-president JD Vance -- want an end to Trump's Iran war and Washington's proximity to Israel Just hours after the scale of the Republican defeat in Tuesday's midterms became apparent, Donald Trump's vice-president laid the blame.

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