Unlike the other Democratic GA Senate candidate, Jon Ossoff has not made a misstep on his Israel positions, but shrewdly given nods to both conservative and liberal Zionists. He says the two-state solution is on “life support,” but has couched criticism of Israel in the language of Zionism. “I oppose Israeli annexation of the West Bank. What I want is for Israel’ s security as a homeland for the Jewish people to be secured and strengthened with U.S. support.”
The focus might currently be on Trump’s attempts at a judicial coup, but eyes are also turning to Georgia’s upcoming Senate runoffs.
Trump will push annexation of West Bank, and if Netanyahu sees it as in his political interest to be antagonistic to Biden, he will accede, say two prominent Israel lobbyists. The issue could be Trump’s way of sowing difficulties for Biden.
Florida’s loss by the Democrats was due to the deliberate decision by Florida Democratic Party to sideline Black, Latino, AAPI, immigrant, and Muslim voters.
GOP renews attacks on Raphael Warnock after 2018 video emerges showing Warnock condemning Israel for shooting Palestinian protestors.
US election showed that American Jews and Israeli Jews could not be more different, American Jews dislike Netanyahu two-to-one, and so the Israel lobby is divided forever, because the Jewish community is divided on the Israel question, with many young Jews supporting boycott. And that divide will continue to spur political debate.
The New York Times buries the report that Defense Department officials worry that Trump might order American troops to fire weapons at Iran. While Elliott Abrams is in the Mideast, pushing for a “flood” of new sanctions on Iran.
Palestinians say that while Trump has been one of, if not the worst, US presidents ever when it comes to Palestine, they don’t really expect things to get much better under Biden.
Benjamin Netanyahu wants as much as he can from the last weeks of the Donald Trump presidency, so he took his time to congratulate Joe Biden– waiting till after midnight last night, many hours after other world leaders had sent Biden their best wishes– then lavishly thanked Trump too.
Don’t blame the Cubans! Trump’s 43 percent of Florida Jews shows influence of orthodox in Miami and turned the state for him, Israel lobbyist Mark Mellman says. Oh and Joe Biden will use “pressure” and “sanctions” to get a “stronger, better, longer” deal from Iran than President Obama got, Mellman says.