Posted on 11/07/2023 3:39:49 AM PST by 11th_VA
No issue threatens to break President Biden's fragile Democratic coalition like Israel's response to the Hamas terrorist attack.
Why it matters: Infighting is spreading, slowly but meaningfully, at every layer of the Democratic Party over Biden's full-throated support of Israel. It runs much deeper than college campus protests or caustic comments from elected officials.
Step back and survey the split:
Many liberal Jews are furious that so many progressive Democrats aren't more outraged by the slaughter of family and friends back in Israel. Some are threatening to leave the party.
Pro-Palestinian Democrats are outraged at the rising death tolls in Gaza made possible by Biden's posture.
Biden's administration and political operation are getting tense and growing more deeply divided. Nearly 20% of the DNC's roughly 300 employees signed a letter asking their boss to demand a ceasefire, Axios' Alex Thompson reports.
A junior State Department foreign affairs officer sent a massive internal email to organize a "dissent cable" on the administration's Israel policy — and alleged on social media that Biden is "complicit in genocide" in Gaza, Axios' Hans Nichols and Barak Ravid scooped.
By contrast, Republicans are mostly united in supporting Israel and have been consistently for a long time.
Among Democrats in Congress, the divide is deep and personal:
Day after day, more House Democrats are criticizing Israel's expanding ground operations, raising concerns with Biden's policy and even calling for a ceasefire.
At least five of the liberal House Democrats in "The Squad" are likely to face primary challengers after criticizing U.S. military aid to Israel — Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Cori Bush (Mo.), Summer Lee (Pa.) and Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.). Money is expected to pour in.
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“Biden’s full-throated support of Israel”
The administration responses are solely dictated by political considerations (as usual).
And....?
You raise a bunch of non-points.
They haven’t declared war on Israel in the past 25 years because?
You’d think by now they would have. Aren’t they prepared to go to war with Israel?
If you want to see an “insurrection” take a look at the behavior of the PRO Palestinians versus the much maligned J6 demonstration.
There is no other description of the difference other than Civilized and Barbarian Savages who LOVE to destroy.
If they declare war? That's in-the-box thinking.
Do you Muslim countries need to issue a "declaration of war" to be at war?
That's absurd.
Hamas is a card that is all about to be burned out from this as I see it.
So either the Muslim world can choose to go to war now with Israel or let the card be burned. I think they don’t care enough about Gaza. They might raise all kinds of diplomatic drama on it, but they don’t have the will to stop Israel.
Arw the Turks moving their armies and their military jets and whatever stupid boats that they have?
No? Then they don’t want to declare war.
“ Funny how liberal Jews have been willing to sleep with political whores and are now shocked, shocked to find out they are filthy diseased whores who actually hate you”
You all are missing the point. Liberal Jews vote Democrat because Democrats reliably attack the Main Enemy.
Once you grasp who the Main Enemy is, everything else falls into place. Yes, Hamas is bad - but as bad as conservative Christians? Not even close.
Iran is financing Hamas. Iran didn’t declare war, did it?
Please explain more about the ‘main enemy’
It is called peace thru strength. They know Israel not only has a strong military but nuclear weapons as well. The Islamic World still wants Israel dead but has to express that hate thru proxies.
It wasn’t so funny is the book of Ezekiel. History is playing out again…
The truly faithful core of the democrat party is the leftist white female. The more college attendance she has experienced, the deeper and redder is her infatuation with democrats. They are hyper angry will never leave the party. They will anger further as fewer people want to associate with them. Even the incels will finally understand there is no tail worth that level of chase.
pro-Palestinian protestors now have killed a Jew here in America.
Jews in America are starting to understand that Pedo Joe and the Democrats in America WANT THEM DEAD.
Oh, but Hamas is about to be killed. Has Iran decided to make airstrikes or move troops through Iraq and Jordan?
It hasn’t. You already know the answer, Hamas was convenient for Iran, but they’re about to get stomped. So that wont be a tool Iran can use.
That’s why I think this will change in a year. Once Hamas is dead, there will have to be a reassessment of why they chickened out, either its because they know its a lost cause or because they’re all just hypothetical.
Either way, there will be peace afterwards because the Gaza problem will be over with.
It is more clear cut that than. The Democratic Party wants ALL JEWS DEAD.
This isn’t even about hate, its about the Democratic Party supporting the Genocide of Jews.
Trying to thread the needle between "support Israel" and "humanitarian pause" is really beyond Biden's capabilities, even with wokesters whispering in his ear.
Pretty much my point. His non-support is shrouded in rhetoric designed to create the illusion of beneficence.
Didn’t I hear that Yemen declared war on Israel?
They could quote the Nashville manifesto (and Biden): "White privilege!"
Hamas will be gone by the end of the year. Then they turn on Hezbolah.
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