To salvage Israel’s dwindling support, Jonathan Chait wants pro-Israel Democrats to throw a bone to the public: let Israel buy its weapons from the US, rather than giving them the weapons for free. Chait wasn’t the first to suggest this. Benjamin Netanyahu first injected the idea in the public debate in an interview with the Economist in January. Since then it’s been touted by Matt Yglesias, taken up by J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby group, and embraced by presidential hopeful Rahm Emanuel.