Israel/Hamas War Superthread

[Dill]

(03-21-2024, 09:57 AM)GMDino Wrote: I heard he met with Congressional republicans, but not Democrats.  Schumer declined an offer.

Same republicans who voted against aid for Israel.

But he's upset that someone suggested he has no plan other than war.

In the Obama era, Schumer was, I think, the only Dem who listened to Netanuahu's address to the Senate.

He has until now been one of the strongest, "no-strings-attached" supporters of Israel and Netanyahu.

But he balks at the wholesale destruction of Gaza and the impending attack on all the citizens ordered to
gather in Rafa, and Trump immediately calls him an "Israel hater." And a self-hating Jew. 

I think that works against Trump in the long run, but there is a market for that style of denunciation via label,
at least in his own base. 

As I said on another thread, it is interesting how the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians maps onto
our own political divisions. The propaganda/press war, at the local and global level, is the most complicated
I have ever seen.