Israel Must Fear Tea Partiers, Or Something Like That - '...This is much about nothing. The only candidate to whom The Times points is Rand Paul, but that is not what it seems. Rand Paul has distanced himself from traditional isolationist foreign policies of libertarians. The details in the NY Times article actually contradict the headline and theme of the article, as incoming Tea Party backed candidates such as Allen West and Marco Rubio are portrayed as having made clear their support for Israel. The "isolationist" policies which could threaten support of Israel come not from the Tea Party movement or the incoming Republican Congressmen, but from the left-wing of the Democratic Party and the foreign policy circles in the Obama administration...'