Yet, every year, there is a small but vocal minority making the same arguments against aid to Israel. And it is starting to creep more and more into the Democratic Party. If more and better Democrats means eliminating foreign aid to Israel, as is suggested in this article on Daily Kos today, than count me out.
Yet the flow of US military support for Israel continues unabated. That is where the voices of reasonable people can make a difference. The US must stop such aid if it wants to further the cause of peace, if it wants to even pretend to be fair to all the people of the middle east.
This is the policy that gets Democrats unelected, not the policy that gets them elected. If Daily Kos is really committed to electing Democrats it would fight these notions, not endorse them. Yet, the article has received 21 uprates and counting.
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DKW
I don't think that this is going to happen anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteAccording to recent polling:
More than two-third of Americans regard Israel as an ally despite recent diplomatic tensions, a nationwide survey conducted by the U.S. polling firm Rasmussen Reports has revealed.
The 70 percent who view Israel as America's friend marks twice the number of respondents who view Egypt as an ally, though that Middle Eastern country has been polled as the most highly regarded Islamic country among Americans.
And as today's diary from the same guy mentions, 71 senators signed a letter to Obama asking him to exert pressure on Arab states. He calls it "pressure from the Right," but 71 senators is the right, the center, and the left. More than 2/3 of the Senate. That's pretty overwhelming support for Israel.
ReplyDeleteExactly Paul! And a majority of Democrats signed that letter too! Its really something how these leftists, not real liberals, there's a difference, are trying to hijack and lie about the debate, and conveniently forget that Israel is supported bipartisanly all across America! This is probably also the only filibuster proof vote of sorts the Senate is gonna see. I'd love someone to remind them of that. Sorry, but the Democratic Party isn't becoming the Social Democratic Party, or the Revolutionary Worker's Party. I have nothing against socialism per se. I do have a problem with the far-left, just like with the far-right, on foreign policy. Both world views are wrong.
ReplyDeleteI also think this blog should cover how the same people who bash Israel love people like Hugo Chavez. Also, I'd bet the only reason people so many people who are anti-I on I/P bash Ahmad is to dress windows of their true thoughts, as some of them probably don't mind him, and to cover for it. The whole far-left, like far-right worldview there amongst SOME , but not all, can really be weird.
Thank god the Democratic Party isn't like one of the Euro parties on foreign policy. This is why America is great, and Europe is still stuck in yesteryear.