India, July 8 -- Rahm Emanuel, a potential Democratic presidential candidate and longtime defender of Israel, will denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv this week and deliver a bracing message that the country's relationship with the United States is "at a crossroads."

"It cannot stand or survive as it has been," Emanuel will say at Tel Aviv University on Wednesday, according to remarks obtained by The Associated Press. "To maintain the strength of our ties, we need significant changes and a new direction."

The speech, coming from a stalwart of the Democrats' centrist wing, is another demonstration of how far their party has shifted away from its historic support of Israel.

About 58 per cent of Democrats say the US is ...