Exactly. The elections proved it.
Beto said Netanyahu is “racist” and “doesn’t represent the true will of the Israeli people”. Beto got the first part right.
“(Well, liberal Zionists could come out for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). That would be a countermove.)”
Yesterday AFTER Benjamin “Annex the Settlements” Netanyahu emerged victorious in the election, eight more Democrats and six more Republicans in the House added their names to the cosponsors of H.Res.246. This resolution is titled “Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel”. This brings the total of cosponsors to 116 Democrats (including the sponsor) and 83 Republicans.
Zionists, liberals and conservatives alike, are moving the chains.
Also, on ABC’s The View, Buttigieg engaged in pinkwashing when he blasted Ilhan Omar for comaparing Israel to Iran. “People like me get strung up in Iran… So, the idea that what’s going on is equivalent is just wrong.”
Buttigieg did not meet with AIPAC last week
The Washington Post’s David Weigel, who publishes the Trailer newsletter, had some insight into Buttigieg’s absence at AIPAC:
Two of them reached directly by The Trailer, Pete Buttigieg and Tulsi Gabbard, explained that they simply were not invited and wouldn’t rule out going in the future.
“We’d entertain any serious invitation to engage in an issue that matters to people in our country,” Buttigieg said. “We should be able to have different views represented without saying something that belittles someone’s right to be in the debate.”
Buttigieg is open to going in the future. He isn’t even trying to appeal to AIPAC’s critics.
Thanks, Misterioso
Little noticed, on Monday Ben Cardin introduced S.Res.120 – “A resolution opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel.” Yesterday Cory Booker signed up as a cosponsor.
Even Beto O’Rourke has the sense that needs to trash Netanyahu to gain traction with the base.
Although Beto may have criticized Netanyahu, that isn’t a risky thing to do in the Democratic party today. Most pro-Israel Democrats loathe Netanyahu. Netanyahu is their scapegoat for Israel’s broader shortcomings which they still wish to deny.
Furthermore, Beto went on to say “and on the Palestinian side, you have an ineffectual leader, in Mahmoud Abbas, who has not been very effective in bringing his side to the table either.” Beto’s charge is groundless. Abbas has many, many faults. But failing to bring his side to the table in contrived negotiations that are more show than substance is not one.
As far as I can tell, the only 2020 hopeful to mention this on Twitter is Tulsi Gabbard. Kudos to her.
(John Delaney, in contrast, has used Twitter in the last day to condemn BDS and voice support for the House resolution denouncing it.)
The Golan Heights announcement is a trial balloon for the “Judea and Samaria” announcement.