Why Hillary Clinton is moving left on every issue except Israel

[Divernan]

That is the title of the thread I just started on GD Primaries. I cross listed it from a thread in the Israel/Palestine group because it is directly related to primaries and I was concerned that the original thread would be locked and lost. The article quotes from HRC's letter to a deep pocket Israeli who is described in the Haaretz article as "has so little regard for Palestinians that at an event last November, he endorsed Sheldon Adelson’s contention that they are an “invented people.” This same man co-sponsored an anti-BDS Summit with Adelson whose “diverse array of voices” ranged from establishment Jewish groups that defend Israeli policy in the West Bank to right-wing Jewish groups that muse about whether Barack Obama is Muslim.
Left out were those American Jewish organizations, like J Street and Americans for Peace Now, which think Israel’s undemocratic control of millions of stateless Palestinians constitutes a moral problem. Left out, in other words, were the only American Jewish groups that enjoy any credibility among the progressives to whom the BDS movement appeals. If Hillary really wanted to combat BDS — as opposed to raising money by pretending to combat it — Saban is among the last people whose advice she’d seek.

Would appreciate some recs for this in GD Primaries, if you feel it is rec worthy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251436933

[TBF]

1. If you know any of the old school supporters with $$$

you know they are just as likely to vote republican as democratic (meaning those 1%'ers who back Israel here in the states).

Personally I read Haretz and also Tikkun. I'm in support of a 2-state solution. I don't believe Hillary will take that stance but Bernie has.


For those who are like-minded here are Bernie's words on the subject:

REHM: Tell me your feeling about whether there should be a two-state solution should Palestine be given statehood?

SANDERS: Absolutely. What you have in that part of the world is an unspeakable tragedy. And it seems like it’s never-ending and it seems like it every year gets worse and worse and more killing and more bombings and everything else. And again, Diane, if I had the magical solution to that problem I would be in the president’s office today giving it. I don’t have it. But clearly the goals are two-fold: number one the Palestinian people, in my view, deserve a state of their own, they deserve an economy of their own, they deserve economic support from the people of this country. And Israel needs to be able to live in security without terrorist attacks. Those are the goals of I think any sensible foreign policy in that region.

REHM: How do you believe President Obama’s relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu has affected our relationship with Israel?

SANDERS: Well, I gotta tell you, I am not a great fan of President Netanyahu I did not attend the speech that he gave before the joint session of Congress. I think it was opportunistic ...

Here: http://www.salon.com/2015/06/16/bernie_sanders_im_not_a_great_fan_of_benjamin_netanyahu_partner/

[libdem4life]

2. Good article...but don't forget that she has not and will not call for breaking up the banks

and taxing corporation i.e. people, or rich people. I don't think even she can "listen" that long.