Biden is trying to straddle the Democrats’ increasingly pro-Palestinian liberal wing and their traditional Jewish support. Meanwhile, Netanyahu will gamble that the IDF can completely subdue Hamas and get the remaining hostages back. From Alasdair Crooke at strategic-culture.su:
Netanyahu is gambling hugely with Israel’s (and America’s) future – and may lose, Alastair Crooke writes.
U.S. Democratic Party support for Israel is fast fissuring – an “ideological tremor”, Peter Beinart (editor of Jewish Currents) calls it. Since 7 Oct “it has become an earthquake” – a “Great Rupture”.
This concerns the fusion of Liberalism to Zionism that long has defined the Democratic Party:
“Israel’s war in Gaza has supercharged a transformation on the American Left. Solidarity with Palestinians is becoming as essential to leftist politics – as is support for abortion rights or opposition to fossil fuels. And, as happened during the Vietnam War and the struggle against South African apartheid – leftist fervour is reshaping the liberal mainstream”.
Put plainly, in tandem to Israel moving to the far Right, pro-Palestinian support in the U.S. has hardened. By November 2023, 49 percent of American Jewish voters ages 18 to 35 opposed Biden’s request for additional military aid to Israel.
That is one vector; one direction of travel within the American polity.
On the other path, American Jews – those most committed to Zionism; the ones who run establishment institutions – see that liberal America is becoming less ideologically hospitable. They are responding to this shift by forging common cause with the American Right.
Netayanhu had made the observation that Israel and a wokish Democratic Party were on divergent paths some ten years earlier – shifting the Likud and the Israel Right away from the Democrats to the American Evangelicals (and thus, broadly in the direction of the Republican Party). As a former senior Israeli diplomat, Alon Pinkas, wrote in 2022:
“With Netanyahu it was always transactional. So in the last decade or so he developed his own vile version of “replacement theory”: The majority of evangelical Christians will replace the vast majority of American Jews. Since it’s all about numbers, the evangelicals are the preferred ally”.
Beinart writes: “Supporters of Israel remain not only welcome in the Democratic Party but are also dominant. But the leaders of those institutions no longer represent much of their base”.
“Senator Schumer, the highest Jewish representative in public life, acknowledged this divide in his speech earlier this month, when he said – the speech’s most remarkable line – that he “can understand the idealism that inspires so many young people in particular, to support a one-state solution”.
A solution – to say it bluntly – that does not involve a ‘Zionist State’: “Those are the words of a politician who understands that his party is undergoing profound change”.
The Zio tapeworm will have to be pulled before the host keels over but that is a feature to them.
Hollowed out welfare colonies as BN said.
While the public is too entertained and doped to see that we exist only to serve a so called ally.
May they enjoy their entertainments and social media hive dopamine rushes, enjoy them good and hard as the great HL Mencken said.
The rabid bloodthirsty mad dog killed food aid workers and other atrocities the past 24 hours while the world fondles tech gadgets and updates the chronicle of nothing report.
Found disturbing video of unarmed Gaza civilians gunned down in broad daylight, doctors in labcoat found dead among rubble and teevee doesn’t even give a warning as footage of IDF busting into hospital rooms and shooting everyone is shown.
Klaus won’t mind ruling over the glow in the dark Ozymandias wasteland as that is a feature to the worshipers of the horned one.