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Democrats’ Drift on Israel Emerges as Sanders Taps Writers of Party Platform
The New York Sun ^ | May 26, 2016 | SETH LIPSKY,

Posted on 05/30/2016 11:40:26 AM PDT by MarvinStinson

The first Jewish candidate to get to the homestretch of a Democratic presidential primary is making it his business to move the party formally away from its support of Israel.

At least to the degree that President Obama hasn’t already done so.

Senator Sanders’ nominees to the Democratic Party’s platform committee include radical environmentalist, Bill McKibben; Native American activist, Deborah Parker; and muslim congressman Keith Ellison of Minnsota.

The big news, though, is that Mr. Sanders’ surrogates include pro-Palestinian activist James Zogby and leftist professor Cornel West, two of the harshest critics of Israel on the national scene.

It’s not my intention here to suggest that any of these worthies ought to be excluded from any Party’s political debate. But what does it say about Mr. Sanders that these are his platform writers?

The anti-Israel edge to Mr. Sanders’ surrogates is so pronounced that even the New York Times warned that a “bitter divide over the Middle East could threaten Democratic Party unity.”

Nor does this seem to be unintended. West, veteran of Harvard and Princeton, and Zogby, head of the Arab American Institute, were themselves quoted by the Times as vowing to overturn the party’s “lopsided support for Israel.”

One of Hillary Clinton's nominees is former State Department aide Wendy Sherman.

Mrs. Sherman’s claim to fame — or infamy — is as co-author of the articles of appeasement on Iran.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Vermont; War on Terror
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1 posted on 05/30/2016 11:40:26 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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2 posted on 05/30/2016 11:43:46 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson

“lopsided support for Israel”

“lopsided support for the Free World” (Cold War)

“lopsided support for England” (WWII)

“lopsided support for France” (WWI)


3 posted on 05/30/2016 11:46:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MarvinStinson

If Sanders were the nominee the majority of Jewish Dems would still vote Democrat..sad but true


4 posted on 05/30/2016 11:51:03 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: MarvinStinson

With friends like Bernie, Israel doesn’t need enemies.

Israel is forever!


5 posted on 05/30/2016 11:51:18 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: MarvinStinson
I find it nauseating that many consider "Jewish" as an ethnicity rather than a religious preference.I can't speak for other parts of the world (including Israel itself) but it's been shown time after time that an enormous percentage of those in the US who call themselves "Jews" will also frankly acknowledge that they're atheists.

Has it ever been firmly established what Bernie's attitude is regarding God's existence? I'll bet that *I* know what it is.

6 posted on 05/30/2016 11:51:41 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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Comrade Bernie turns out to be a Kapo!


7 posted on 05/30/2016 11:51:47 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: MarvinStinson

Obama has made it acceptable and fashionable within the Democratic Party and the chattering classes to be an open anti Zionist. This is his “legacy”. Yet at this time the significance of this is lost on most.


8 posted on 05/30/2016 11:52:18 AM PDT by allendale
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Cornell West is a spittle-spraying racist. Why would anyone look to him for strategy or guidance?


9 posted on 05/30/2016 11:54:30 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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The heathens (Democrats) may as well deny Israel, they did the same to God Himself at the 2012 Democrat convention.


10 posted on 05/30/2016 12:00:13 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
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Some people might even dislike him because of his POLISH background. Who even knows what biases some people bring to the table.


11 posted on 05/30/2016 12:09:36 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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The heathens (Democrats) may as well deny Israel, they did the same to God Himself at the 2012 Democrat convention.

Having visited Israel in 2011 I could SEE that the Israeli Jews, Muslims and Christians DO "live and let live." They often even COOPERATE.

Bottom line: NO ONE can "explain" the middle east. One has to visit it, hear it, smell it, see it and taste it. All unique.

I would NOT want to live there but EVERY Christian OUGHT to save his/her pennies and take a tour of the Holy Land. Well worth it!!

12 posted on 05/30/2016 12:13:17 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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Antisemitism is back and rising faster than ever in history.

That is one of many reasons why we must defend the Second Amendment.

13 posted on 05/30/2016 12:13:47 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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Bernie the Communist shows his true colors. Red red and red. An apparently sincere and fairly likeable old guy who’s seriously missed the boat politically and spiritually. Pray he finds God ( or at least recovers some good sense) while he still can.


14 posted on 05/30/2016 12:54:55 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Who even knows what biases some people bring to the table.

The one thing we can be sure of is that EVERYONE
brings some bias to the table.


15 posted on 05/30/2016 12:59:37 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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These communistic Islamonazi- loving infiltrators “ have a ton of foreign and enemy $$
$ behind them ( Just look at the most recent $100,000,000.00 Hillary’s collected from Arabian peninsula Islamonazi dictators). And they’ve seized control of the D party machine apparatus. The D party machine is now openly anti- American, anti-Christian and anti- Jewish As well as against liberty and your personal freedom and economic opportunity It ain’t our parents’ D party anymore. That’s for sure.


16 posted on 05/30/2016 2:45:14 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Trump ‘won’t pressure Israel’ to act against its interests
Arutz Sheva | 30/5/16 | Uzi Baruch
Posted on 05/30/2016 3:00:09 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3435272/posts


17 posted on 05/31/2016 7:17:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me. ..................

They're not drifting, they're following the course set by Obama

18 posted on 05/31/2016 12:43:39 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: tet68
The one thing we can be sure of is that EVERYONE brings some bias to the table.

That's a fac, jack.
We learn to deal with all those biases or we ignore those folks whose biases are just too much. There have been a few here for me...just a few. :o)

19 posted on 05/31/2016 4:21:37 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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