An Israel-neocon rift?

The Israeli consul in Boston got recalled after a memo he wrote "leaked." The center of the memo seems to be his concern that the current Israeli stance on settlements is putting too much distance in the US-Israel relationship.

BUT, what made me post is this very interesting bit,

"There are people in US and Israeli politics who ideologically oppose Obama, and are willing to sacrifice the special relationship between the two countries in order to advance their political agenda."

The "atmosphere of confrontation", he warned, was alienating the US public and putting the Jewish community in a difficult position.

"Many of them are distancing themselves from the state of Israel because of this conflict," he wrote.

To me, that reads like this. "Our neocon friends in the US are damaging their value to Israel in their monomaniacal opposition of Obama. They're casting support for Israel into a Republican/Democratic issue which is costing critical support among US Democratic Jews and others who are sympathetic."

I doubt that criticism will be taken on board, but it has very interesting implications if it is. (Bill Kristol, John Bolton shut up? or, more unbelievably, try to find common ground with the Obama administration?)

Certainly, this is just the opinion of one lower down, and he was "recalled" after it leaked, but it's such a very rarely expressed viewpoint, I thought I'd post it.