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Behind the Curtain: Tearing apart Democrats
AXIOS ^

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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TOPICS: Extended News; Israel; Politics/Elections
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To: 11th_VA
Biden's full-throated support of Israel.

Pfffft. Biden talks a good game but he sends money to Hamas via the "Palestinians". Trump had cut off Hamas.

81 posted on 11/07/2023 8:06:20 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: MountainWalker

“Democrats have been pretty amazing at holding together all the motley factions of their coalition who would otherwise be at each others throats. Liberal Jews, Jihadis, alphabet mafia, black supremacists…it’s really amazing that they’ve been able to service all of them while not losing the others, but this Israel-Hamas war really has them over a barrel.”

Because they hate us more than they hate each other.


82 posted on 11/07/2023 8:09:54 AM PST by rxh4n1
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To: 11th_VA

We are finding out who people in our Government REALLY ARE.


83 posted on 11/07/2023 9:47:51 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Bayard

We’re talking about Islam.


84 posted on 11/07/2023 10:12:07 AM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: 11th_VA

Anyone who supports the democrat party does not support the constitution or this country and is the enabler of a ruthless mob entrenched in the ideas of sedition, slavery, socialism, and surrender.

“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” ― John Adams

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” ― George Washington


85 posted on 11/07/2023 12:16:21 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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