HuffPost obtained a White House message to senators ahead of a crucial vote on sending the Israelis more arms amid the Gaza and Lebanon wars. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is helping the administration shield the policy.
Amazing how quickly they gave up on finger wagging over Israel not allowing in aid supplies
Being called a Hamas-sympathiser is going to be a slap in the face
Bullying works. This isn't going to make them break from the Liberal Party, its going to make them break from Palestine.
I'd say that the election results are a pretty clear indication that bullying like this, in an abstract way, doesn't work at all and that it didn't make people break with Palestine but it made them break with the Democrats.
Imagine you're a well-meaning lib who is pretty progressive and you just want to see a stop to the genocide. You've always been anti-war because war is bad. You think you can change the system from the inside and that the Democrats are capable of reform.
Then the Democratic Party leadership calls you a terrorist because you oppose war (progressives like these are usually pretty strongly opposed to Hamas and view them that way).
I just don't see many people packing up their anti-war, anti-genocide stance in the face of that bullying. I see far more people waking up to the reality of how far right the Dems have shifted and how unwilling they are to reform, of how incapable the whole system is of reform. I just don't see these people facing slander like that any then being like "Welp, I guess I'm pro-war now and it turns out I had it completely backwards on genocide"
It would be hard to go back to believing the narratives coming out of Israel after a wake-up call like that.
If liberal media can reform Dick Cheney and George Bush inside eight years, they can bring Libs around on Israel within a week of a ceasefire.
What makes you think that a ceasefire is on the cards?
I just don't see many people packing up their anti-war, anti-genocide stance in the face of that bullying
I see plenty of liberals in Houston doing just that. "It's just not a winning issue" and "<Other Thing> is too important" get bandied about so regularly...
What makes you think that a ceasefire is on the cards?
Eventually Israel runs out of gas. Their economy is already in the tank and they've got a huge domestic labor crisis.
Also, with the courts hostile to Netanyahu, it doesn't look like Forever War is going to forestall his legal problems any longer.
I'd say that the election results are a pretty clear indication that bullying like this, in an abstract way, doesn't work at all and that it didn't make people break with Palestine but it made them break with the Democrats.
Imagine you're a well-meaning lib who is pretty progressive and you just want to see a stop to the genocide. You've always been anti-war because war is bad. You think you can change the system from the inside and that the Democrats are capable of reform.
Then the Democratic Party leadership calls you a terrorist because you oppose war (progressives like these are usually pretty strongly opposed to Hamas and view them that way).
I just don't see many people packing up their anti-war, anti-genocide stance in the face of that bullying. I see far more people waking up to the reality of how far right the Dems have shifted and how unwilling they are to reform, of how incapable the whole system is of reform. I just don't see these people facing slander like that any then being like "Welp, I guess I'm pro-war now and it turns out I had it completely backwards on genocide"
What makes you think that a ceasefire is on the cards?
I see plenty of liberals in Houston doing just that. "It's just not a winning issue" and "<Other Thing> is too important" get bandied about so regularly...
Eventually Israel runs out of gas. Their economy is already in the tank and they've got a huge domestic labor crisis.
Also, with the courts hostile to Netanyahu, it doesn't look like Forever War is going to forestall his legal problems any longer.