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Sunday, November 24, 2024

It's not just Republicans

For those who think that all Democrats are against Israel, that isn't so. The recent ICC decision has caused anger among Democratic lawmakers as well as Republicans ...

- Arrest warrants for Israeli leaders amplify Democratic rupture

[...] Biden issued a brief statement on Thursday hammering the arrest warrants as “outrageous.” And House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) delivered a similar rebuke a short time later, calling the ICC’s move “shameful.” ... “I stand with the Biden administration in fundamentally rejecting this unserious decision,” Jeffries said in a statement ...

- Scoop: Congress threatens ICC over Israeli arrest warrants

[...] It's not just Republicans lashing out and warning the ICC that warrants could be met with a legislative response. Staunchly pro-Israel Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) have both criticized the reported warrants, with Torres calling for "strong consequences from both Congress and the President." ...

- Nineteen House Dems call for U.S. sanctions on the International Criminal Court

[...] 19 pro-Israel Democrats signaled in a letter to Secretary of State Tony Blinken and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday that there is still bipartisan support on Capitol Hill for sanctioning the international tribunal ... The letter was signed by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Brad Schneider (D-IL), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Dina Titus (D-NV), Jared Golden (D-ME), Kathy Manning (D-NC), Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Darren Soto (D-FL), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Susie Lee (D-NV), Debbie Wasserman Schutlz (D-FL), Don Davis (D-NC), Greg Landsman (D-OH), Vicente Gonazalez (D-TX), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) and Dean Phillips (D-MN) ...

It does seem, though, like most Democratic lawmakers lean against Israel, and use the idea that Netanyahu is a super conservative as one of their reasons. But I think that's a mischaracterization of Netanyahu, who really stands in the middle between the liberals and the conservatives of his government. He needss to pacify them all to keep his coalition together, but he hasn't given in to many of the conservatives' wishes, like colonizing Gaza or Jews praying on the Temple Mount.

The truth is that most of Israel's decisions about the war have been almost unanimous among both the government and the citizens. And Netanyahu is prime minister, not because he is some conservative tyrant, but because a majority of citizens of that democracy keep voting for him.

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