Anyone with a brain knows that we have to distance ourselves from the Middle East and occupier Israel; but these lessons were nowhere evident in the no-holds-barred political brawls in Iowa. That’s got to change, and Bernie Sanders is the best hope to do so.
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are surging as anti-establishment candidates in their parties partly because they both opposed the Iraq War and there has never been any accountability for that horrible decision.
Former NY mayor Bloomberg, who is considering throwing his hat in the presidential race, has sided with Israel in its assaults on Gaza and aided Islamophobic efforts in New York; but he also said those who don’t want to allow a BDS panel at Brooklyn College should go live in North Korea.
The Israel question has become an explicit issue in the Democratic battle between Clinton and Sanders, with a Clinton aide saying that Sanders’s idea to normalize Iran is naive about a country that “seeks the destruction of Israel.”
The Democratic presidential nomination debate on Sunday night was remarkable in part for Senator Bernie Sanders’s strong support for normalizing relations with Iran, and Hillary Clinton’s demurral on that same question. The difference is likely to play out in the Democratic primary process.
Paul Krugman writes an entire column about Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer’s influence inside the Republican Party without pointing out the obvious: their core issue is Israel. He’s lying to his readers.
Without an Iran deal, the world could have seen a nuclear exchange in the Middle East. President Obama wiretapped Israeli PM Netanyahu not out of political rivalry but to stave off the threat to world peace posed by Netanyahu and his American allies trying to sabotage the deal.
Not making this up. Marco Rubio titles a neoconservative foreign-policy ad for his campaign: “Lunatic/Marco Rubio for President”
Sen. Lindsey Graham is saluted as a “mensch” by Israel supporters thankful that he is trying to save the Republican party from Donald Trump and also advance a neoconservative program inside the party
Hedgefunder and Israel supporter Andrew Herenstein seems to have jumped from Ted Cruz to Marco Rubio since the spring, and Rubio has dropped legislation that would have hurt Herenstein’s interests in Puerto Rico