Posted on 11/30/2016 7:54:12 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
After taking white working-class voters for granted in November, the Democratic Party seems poised to do the same for Jews – and that could have important implications for the already troubled U.S.-Israeli relationship.
Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who lead the party's progressive wing, are backing Rep. Keith Ellison, an African-American Muslim with a long history of anti-Semitic leanings and anti-Israeli positions, as the party's next chairman. So too is the incoming Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, who is considered one of Israel's strongest Democratic backers.
Ellison's bid and high-level backing reflect the party's increasing leftward drift on Israel-related issues, in which one-sided views about the Jewish state – particularly related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – are far more acceptable as mainstream Democratic positions than a decade ago.
That raises two major questions for the U.S.-Israeli relationship:
First, will a future Democratic president and Congress provide the party's traditional support for Israel that dates to President Harry Truman's recognition of the Jewish state just 11 minutes after it was created – support that now includes America's generous military aid, its intelligence sharing and its protection from anti-Israel resolutions at the morally challenged United Nations?
Second, will U.S. support for Israel remain a bipartisan issue, or will it increasingly fall victim to partisan politics – with Republicans aligning themselves forcefully with Jerusalem while Democrats take a balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and broader Arab-Israeli relations?
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With Ellison the Dems are dead! Final proof the Dems are Communists.
JINOs
Maybe now liberal Jews will finally wake up to the antisemitism in the DemocRat party.
I don't understand the angst they are trying to portray. Isn't that pretty much who they are on the Left? Seems like he would be right up their alley.
Schumer, Pelosi, and Ellison? Really? Somebody pinch me. Is this true? This a the Republican Dream Team. hahaha
My hope is that the racist Muslim becomes the DNC chair.
He will destroy what’s left of the RATs.
islamists
I wouldn't count on it. Like the 70% or so of Jews in Egypt who refused to leave and were killed by HaShem during the plague of darkness, I think American liberal Jews have reached the stage where they're irredeemable.
They'll get over it. They will rationalize it away and determine that it is the best thing for Jews.
It ain’t just Jews the muslims hate, it is also us infidels.
He’s a great pick for the dems.
They’ll get over it. They will rationalize it away and determine that it is the best thing for Jews.
Trump’s fault.
Communists and islamists have a common goal to destroy the US. We have to continually fight for our Freedoms. They are NOT free.
“Democrats take a balanced approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”
The Palestinian side wants the Israelis to be pushed into the sea, and the Israelis don’t want that. So what’s the “balanced approach” to that conflict?
What’s the “balanced approach” between an ax murderer and his victim? Let him sever a couple of limbs, and call it even?
If Ellison doesn’t work out maybe the Democrats could get Louis Farrakhan to be the DNC chair?
The majority of the funding for the Democrat Shadow Party is coming from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Soros Billionaires Cabal.
To maintain that revenue flow, they are going to have to nominate a racist, Christian hater like this muzzie.
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