We speak with Josh Paul, a former State Department official who resigned last month to protest continued arms sales to Israel amid its bombardment of Gaza, writing in a viral letter that one-sided U.S. support for Israel is “shortsighted,” “destructive” and “contradictory.” Media reports say many others inside the State Department are equally frustrated with the U.S. role in the conflict. Paul tells Democracy Now! he tried to raise his concerns with his superiors but found “no appetite for that discussion” and that unlike all other U.S. arms sales that take humanitarian concerns into account, Israel gets a blank check. Paul says the overall message inside the Biden administration is: “Don’t question the policy because it’s coming from the top.”
Transcript: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/3/josh_paul_resigns_israel_gaza
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The same “If I were a Jew, I’d be a Zionist” Biden?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbn4i7_CFIM
Oh how I wish we’d have gotten Bernie in 2016.
I too wish Bernie had won. But, being a Zionist just means you think Jews need a homeland. Any supporter of a two state solution is supporting Zionism.
What ever happened to democrats believing that we should support diversity? The same Democrats supporting the Israeli ethnostate would not feel the same way if it was Georgia or Alabama giving priority to white Christians and revoking residency of African Americans and stealing their homes.
Dems believe that people should not be oppressed. Since Israel has been doing a large amount of oppression for the past 20 years, and they have a lot of power, dems tend to think we should stop giving them weapons.
Diversity has nothing to do with it in this case. Even if it were actually a diversity issue, we would still need to protect the weak, the ones at risk of being wiped out. That would actually be the poorer and more impoverished ones.
edit for clarity