Posted on 11/22/2023 12:10:14 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
By now, it’s clear that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is driving a rift into progressive, liberal, and Democratic Party ranks that may be as deep as the one caused by the Vietnam War. Whether it will be as lasting as the divisions of the ’60s remains to be seen. What is clear now, however, is that the political consequences this time around may be much more severe.
Absent the Vietnam War, Hubert Humphrey would probably not have lost the 1968 presidential election to Richard Nixon. In a Biden-Trump contest next year, Israel-Palestine could be one more nail in the Democrats’ coffin. And for all of his depredations and paranoia, Richard Nixon posed a petty threat to American democracy, while Trump poses a massive one.
What, then, are Democrats to do? As Michelle Goldberg has outlined in The New York Times, the efforts by Democratic Majority for Israel to recruit candidates to run in primary elections against members of the Squad, and to fund their campaigns with many millions of dollars (a good deal of which comes from Republicans and corporate interests seeking to squash economic progressives) would only widen those rifts and guarantee that many young voters and voters of color—key elements in the Democratic base—would either stay home or vote for protest candidates in next November’s elections.
Is there anything that the Biden administration and the Democrats—two groups that, of necessity, we need to consider separately—can do to narrow this yawning chasm?
As to the administration, it needs to get much more serious about prompting a two-state solution than any previous administration has ever been. It needs to condition all aid to Israel on that nation’s agreement to permit the establishment of a viable Palestinian state within a brief period of time.
(Excerpt) Read more at prospect.org ...
Bibi has said he is going to exterminate Hamas so that no remnant remains.
Division within. You’d think the
Repubs would pick up on this.
Who are the Republicans? I've heard of them. Seems familiar.
They’re busy trying to help the Dems do everything their hearts desire.
how many times must the muslims say no to a two-state solution
before people realize they do not want one
When they conquer Israel.
I’d be inclined to say no. At the end of the day it’s Party Über Alles, and they’ll just revert back to their programming after getting the new narrative patch uploaded.
It’s kind of like over the past couple of years we’ve seen the utter failure of gun free zones (Uvalde), or live time examples of government opening fire on legitimately protesting civilians (Venezuela 2018, Hong Kong 2019), and still the purpose of the 2nd Amendment isn’t driven home with these people. It’s like liberal Jews on the October 7th attacks by Hamas, and the rise of antisemitism in this country now. They get the point for the moment, but it’s not going to stick. My money is on a plurality of these people voting for business as usual by the next election cycle.
Just another in the continuing efforts by the Fourth Estate to provide guidance and ensure the perpetual success of the One True Party.
You mean that political party that used to say they represented family values and hard work ethic?
That party that used to like lower taxes?
Heard stories about them 🤔
I hear they’re really great at writing strongly worded letters.
The GOPe leadership is useless and stupid. I hate the backstabbing, useless pukes with a passion.
Can we, the US, survive it?
The delusional will stick together because they can’t handle reality.
OMG just enjoy it!
The hard core lefties are calling him Genocide Joe, bwahahahahahahahaha
<>two-state solution<>
Barely concealed Leftist code for The Final Solution.
In the end they will come down on the side of Palestine in effective outcome. They don’t want to alienate the growing masses of Muslims here and they still think they have a hold on the loyal-left Jew vote.
The US will secretly coerce Israel into a ‘peace deal’ and laud it as the ‘second coming of Biden.’
So far as Israel and Gaza go, Biden is irrelevant
Atthe proper time, the Abrahams Accord neighbors will gather and resolve the problem by creating a new territory that was formerly called Palestine.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.