At this point if anyone with any kind of real power at all came out against Israel that would be the moment I spit out my drink. Rich people will stand by Israel even if it costs them elections...
At this point if anyone with any kind of real power at all came out against Israel that would be the moment I spit out my drink.
Rich people will stand by Israel even if it costs them elections for the rest of their lives. I don’t get it, but it is what it is.
DNC members rejected a symbolic resolution to limit the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and dark-money corporate groups in Democratic primaries — an unsurprising result that is nevertheless a blow to those within the party that have been infuriated by the pro-Israel group’s recent interventions.
They also punted on a pair of sweeping resolutions concerning conflicts in the Middle East that pushed the party to support conditioning military aid to Israel. The measures were referred to the party’s nascent Middle East Working Group, which is meeting for the fourth time this week and has been slow to coalesce around an agenda.
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A Pew Research survey released this week showed 80 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents hold unfavorable views of Israel, up from 69 percent last year and 53 percent in 2022. A NBC News poll conducted in late February and early March, meanwhile, found that 57 percent of Democrats view Israel negatively, a dramatic change from when just 35 percent held a negative view of the country after Hamas attacked it on Oct. 7, 2023.
At this point if anyone with any kind of real power at all came out against Israel that would be the moment I spit out my drink.
Rich people will stand by Israel even if it costs them elections for the rest of their lives. I don’t get it, but it is what it is.
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