Fearing Zionism could die among Democrats, many party leaders are explicitly breaking with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to stop anti-Israel attitudes from becoming a litmus test for next year’s midterms and the 2028 presidential primaries.
Leaders of multiple Jewish and pro-Israel groups told CNN privately that they have grimly determined their best and most practical approach is essentially to quietly wait out the trauma and hope the politics turns. There’s another Israeli election next year, and while Netanyahu is now in a minority coalition, he has been counted out before.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wrote the military aid resolution but also cautioned Mamdani when they huddled last month to be more deliberate about making clear he wasn’t anti-Israel or antisemitic, told CNN he thinks his colleagues risk losing an authentic connection to voters if they don’t rapidly change what they’re doing and saying on Israel.
“To be anti-Netanyahu, anti-a-right-wing-racist-extremist government, that’s anti-Israeli government,” Sanders said. “If you’re against Trump, you’re not against America.”
Well you know what they say about liberals:
“They always support every civil rights movement except for the current one.”
I always heard it as: “A liberal is someone who is against every war, except the current war.”
But I think both apply
And you know what they say about tankies, “All bark and no follow through.”
“To be anti-Netanyahu, anti-a-right-wing-racist-extremist government, that’s anti-Israeli government,” Sanders said. “If you’re against Trump, you’re not against America.”
This is a propaganda by the way. Netanyahu is the perfect representation of Israel.
Also Likud has said “from the river to the sea” many times. Here’s the first time and one of the more recent ones.
Likud Party: Original Party Platform (1977)
a. The right of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is eternal and indisputable and is linked with the right to security and peace; therefore, Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud Party (2024)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected the premise of a Palestinian state and promised that Israel will take over the entire region it currently occupies, “from the river to the sea,” according to an English translation on the Israeli news channel i24NEWS.
Only about 1 in 4 Knesset members favor a two-state solution. Some may disagree with Likud’s methods, but the vast majority of elected officials in Israel support Israeli domination over Palestinians. This almost exactly mirrors the ratio of support and opposition to a two-state solution amongst the Israeli public.
I think Bibi is as religious as Trump. Manipulating a bunch of rubes with a religion they don’t give a shit about.
He has to be aware that he’s parroting isrealis propaganda by now and I wish I could understand why
Asked whether that risked Democrats being seen as anti-Israel, Sanders pointed out that he is Jewish himself and decades ago lived in Israel for a few months.
Ummmm apparently to tankies, it already was a litmus test, hence Trump being elected. So… Dems have five choices:
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Continue to support genocide and have the left not support them. Or…
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Denounce the genocide and have the left not support them because of other purity reasons or…
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Go further left and have the billionaire backers abandon them or…
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Do everything that the far left wants and they still don’t show up to vote for whatever reason at the mid terms. Or…
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The Democrats grow a spine, do everything they need to do, and are screwed out of a fair election because of the far right facists.
Dems are screwed all around. But at least Chuck Schumer can sleep at night knowing he did absolutely nothing to stop this catastrophe.
At least the Dems will have their base blaming the left because they support genocide and sell out to billionaires.
Funny how Democrats said that they needed to support genocide to win the election. Then they lost the election supporting genocide and they still blame “Tankies”
Also funny how Dems think the word Tankie is worse than supporting a literal mass child starvation Holocaust.
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