Posted on 12/07/2011 10:07:42 AM PST by Nachum
Two of the Democratic Partys core institutions are challenging a bipartisan consensus on Israel and Palestine that has dominated American foreign policy for more than a decade.
The Center for American Progress, the partys key hub of ideas and strategy, and Media Matters, a central messaging organization, have emerged as vocal critics of their partys staunchly pro-Israel congressional leadership and have been at odds, at times, with Barack Obamas White House, which has acted as a reluctant ally to Benjamin Netanyahus Israeli government.
The differences are ones of tone but also of bright lines of principle and while they have havent yet made any visible impact on Democratic policy, theyve shaken up the Washington foreign policy conversation and broadened the space for discussing a heretical and often critical stance on Israel heretofore confined to the political margins.
The daily battle is waged in Media Matters emails, on CAPs blogs, Middle East Progress and ThinkProgress and most of all on Twitter, where a Media Mattters official, MJ Rosenberg, regularly heaps vitriol on those who disagree as Iraq war neocon liar (the Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg) or having dual loyalties to the U.S. and Israel (the Washington Posts Jennifer Rubin). And while the Center for American Progress tends to walk a more careful line, warm words for Israel can be hard to find on its blogs.
Events of recent years such as GOP attacks on Obama as insufficiently loyal to Israel, Israels controversial raid on a Turkish ship bound for Gaza and debates over the Iranian nuclear program have deepened the divide between some on the Democratic left and the partys mainstream foreign policy apparatus.
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And this is not to mention support for... gay rights (a violation of the Torah btw...).
You think you got it tough, try being a WASP, some think they have transcended to god status, some want to date their close cousins.
Thanks justice, hope what you say comes true!
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