Friday, March 29, 2024

The Israel lobby is fractured, and so at last is the Jewish community

from Mondoweiss

The historic rebuke to Israel the U.S. government allowed to take place in the UN Security Council on Monday was pushed by progressive activists. Biden fears that supporters of Palestinian human rights won’t turn out in November if he continues to give a green light to genocide. Indeed, the Democratic base is overwhelmingly critical of Israel’s actions. As James Carville says, the starvation and slaughter are not just a problem for college kids.

But in breaking with the Israeli government, Biden took on the Israel lobby, the most powerful force in setting U.S. policy for the Middle East.

Biden would not have done so if he did not feel he had support inside the Jewish community. He got that from Chuck Schumer, who speaking as the “guardian” of Israel and the most powerful Jew in U.S. political history, rose in the Senate last week to say Israel was killing too many civilians, and it might be time for the U.S. to leverage aid to Israel to stop the onslaught...

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1 comment:

  1. Look further down the paid puppets to the faux 'patriots' and 'truthers' who mouth off daily about events, survival, collapse, etc and not one of them has changed their spiel one bit---still every one blaming 'the usual suspects' for all the woes, wars, and treason going on right under their noses.
    They ain't raving and drooling and running skeered yet. Still same old scripts.

    Since listening not reading where i can gain information 50x faster, i can only get to about 6-8/day, and even then many times cut short because i can't stand their blizzard of bullshit and lies, but it's still a good sampling of the hundreds out there with a channel who are designed to appear as 'independent journalist shitizens', not the ones eg who are members of all those foundations, 'charities', and stink tanks.

    OOPS! Used too GDF many quotation marks, so now I have to pay homage to this doctor of letters in lieu of copyright fees for use of same:
    https://i.imgflip.com/1o7a01.jpg

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