Clinton campaign emails reveal often craven pandering to big Jewish donors. But they also show that Jews are not monolithic in supporting Israel. Many care about progressive causes. It’s time for the media to frankly address this outsize Jewish influence so that Jews will express greater diversity on foreign policy.
Some Somali Americans in Ohio who have witnessed civil war in the old country worry that the bitterly-divided 2016 election portends violent unrest in the United States. Though others say the US constitution is strong enough to withstand such divisions.
A new poll shows most Arabs, and especially Palestinians, think Hillary Clinton will be no better for the region than Donald Trump. “I just feel like Americans aren’t choosing between the lesser of two evils, but the quieter of two evils,” says 15-year-old Amera Abunada, a Palestinian writer now living in Turkey.
Most young American Jews have a non-Jewish parent, and intermarriage is the largest factor in distancing Jews from Israel, followed by growing offense with Israeli policies, says Steven Cohen, leading sociologist of Jewish attitudes. He said some “serious” Jewish donors have stopped giving to organizations that give money to Israel.
Latest emails from Wikileaks show that even as Benjamin Netanyahu promised voters he would not allow creation of a Palestinian state, the Clinton braintrust planned to tell Americans that “dozens of hours of convos with Bibi” had convinced Hillary Clinton that Netanyahu had “actively negotiated” to bring about a Palestinian state.
The demonization of Vladimir Putin by the US press, acting as stenographers for intelligence agencies and Hillary Clinton, limits US ability to bring about diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East, says James W. Carden in interview with Bob Garfield of “On the Media”
Lots of Israel gossip in the latest Wikileaks Clinton emails, like Haim Saban, the campaign’s favorite billionaire, writing “Haleluyah” from Israel after Clinton won the Nevada caucuses, and Stu Eizenstat saying “Mission accomplished,” when Clinton threw President Obama under the bus for criticizing Netanyahu.
Establishments should fall over a disastrous war decision; but so far there has been no accounting among elites for the thinkers and journalists who led us into the Iraq War. And Trump has been a beneficiary.
When President Obama rebuked Netanyahu for racism and abandonment of a Palestinian state in March 2015, the New York Times and Hillary Clinton campaign took steps to throw him under the bus. Here’s how it went down, according to newly-released Wikileaks emails.
Another Israel-related email released yesterday in the Wikileaks flood from the Clinton campaign shows former White House officials, now leaders of an Israel support organization in Jerusalem, discussing the Zionist bona fides of Jewish journalists Tom Friedman and Leon Wieseltier– and what they owe the Jewish state.