Clarence B. Jones at Huffpo. Note the warning about domestic divisions this issue will spur. Yes, the Democratic Party will have to choose whether it supports democracy or apartheid. That is the coming battle inside the U.S. Thanks to Peter Belmont. Jones excerpt:
Few issues, except for race relations in America, have the capacity to inflame domestic politics and become as divisive.
Historically, a majority of Americans have supported successive Democratic and Republican administrations’ support for Israel. Such support will undoubtedly continue. However, there is a risk that such future support may be a mile wide; but only an inch deep. The significant domestic fiscal limitations upon United States economic power and resources have qualitatively rearranged the dynamics of the power and ability of Israel and the United States to play the decisive role they once enjoyed in the region. Sooner or later, the reality of this will impact and influence domestic politics in America.
The spark most likely and immediately to reignite and inflame the Israel-Palestinian “peace negotiations” is the pending plan of the Palestinian Leadership to seek admission of Palestine, as an independent “State” to the United Nations
And this is just beautiful. Jones again:
The reason this remains such a potentially explosive issue for domestic and international politics is because the current leaders in Israel, Palestine and Washington may have become regionally and historically marginal, if not irrelevant, to the fundamental changes that have occurred and continue to occur on the ground in the Middle East following the Arab Spring. Neither Hamas, the PLO, nor the Netanyahu government can “negotiate” a solution acceptable and supportable by the emerging new generation of Israelis and Palestinians who are seeking another way; another possibility to resolving their differences. This “other way” appears to be a growing movement of peaceful non-violent protest to the status quo based on their quest for justice rooted in the principles and precepts of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
