TAIBEH, Israel -- Is there no limit to what the American government will accept from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his hard-line foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman?

With Netanyahu's backing, the Israeli cabinet voted in support of Lieberman's loyalty oath for non-Jewish immigrants, which requires allegiance to a "Jewish and democratic state" of Israel. It was as if Mexican immigrants to the United States would have to swear allegiance to a United States that is white and Protestant, while immigrants from Europe would face no such oath.