Gotta love them Democrats... just when they don't need any more negative image... bingo... jackpot.
Israel rift roils Democratic ranks
Two of the Democratic Party’s 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 party’s key hub of ideas and strategy, and Media Matters, a central messaging organization, have emerged as vocal critics of their party’s staunchly pro-Israel congressional leadership and have been at odds, at times, with Barack Obama’s White House, which has acted as a reluctant ally to Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government.
“Like segregation in the American South, the siege of Gaza (and the entire Israeli occupation, for that matter) is a moral abomination that should be intolerable to anyone claiming progressive values,” wrote Matt Duss, a CAP policy analyst and the director of Middle East Progress, last year, after an Israeli raid on a flotilla challenging the blockade of Gaza turned violent.
Over at Media Matters, Rosenberg, a former AIPAC staffer turned apostate, labels American Israel hawks “Israel-firsters” and recently blasted Rep. Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, for pushing a sanctions on Iranian civilian aviation that would be “the most ugly expression yet of this country’s almost bizarre obsession with punishing Iran, its people along with its government.”
Good move... so the progressives in the Democratic party are picking on the Democratic moderates about their support for Israel. Anti_Israel sentiment should help put Obama over the top for the next presidential election.
BEARS wrote: lol Deep thoughts from a birdbrain.....
Did you think you were gonna spark some kind of intelectual debate here or something?
Based on the content of your entry above... no. But it's rare that any comment you make on any thread has any intellectual (watch your spelling, orgasm-less Kate will get on your case) content.
While the Jewish vote is fairly small, it could prove to be dangerous to have them choose to stay home or vote for a moderate Republican like Romney, especially in Florida & Pennsylvania.
If Obama loses both those states, we will have a Republican president.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
