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| Why Democrats recoil from Gaza |
| 2009-01-08 |
| by David Frum Good for Shrum for championing Israel's right to defend itself against the Hamas rocket barrage. He is correct, too, that lasting peace will come only when the Palestinians abandon their hope that Israel can somehow be defeated or destroyed. Unfortunately, Shrum represents an increasingly minority point of view within the Democratic Party. A Rasmussen poll conducted in the last week of 2008 found that while 62 percent of Republicans backed Israel's action in Gaza, only 31 percent of Democrats did. Almost three-quarters of Republicans blamed Hamas for starting this war; only a minority of Democrats agreed. Republicans are 20 points more friendly toward Israel than Democrats. And while extreme hostility to Israel does not exist among Republicans, almost one in 10 Democrats describes Israel as an "enemy of the United States." |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #5 And yes, the hostility to Israel among the Left is a concern for the Dem party. So? lol! Do the stats in this article upset you? They should. You are aligned with a party that will turn on you in a dime. Yet you stay with them because that Republican Right is just soooo evil. It sux to get a clue, doesn't it? Sure, we can all put our desires on the blank slate that is Obama. Why not? Hope is what the man ran on. And maybe he does not share the views from those of his Pastor who was his family's mentor for so many years. I think we all agree that is a change we can hope for. |
| Posted by: Gritch Brown4916 2009-01-08 22:42 |
| #4 Didn't the Democratic House of Congress just overwhelmingly pass a resolution supporting Israel's right to defend itself? Frum is fullashit! |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-01-08 21:19 |
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| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-08 20:54 |
| #2 Can we please stop using website comments as meaningful indicators of the opinion of site owners? And yes, the hostility to Israel among the Left is a concern for the Dem party. So? Obama won election dissing Hamas. His new Sec of State is the woman who made a point of being more proIsrael than obama. The new NSA is pro-arab, but his ties are all with Fatah, not Hamas. The Secdef is the same. The proof of the pudding is in the eating of course. I can certainly understand Baraks desire to move before Jan 20. On several different grounds. But lets judge the president elect on what he says and does (even if that means waiting till he takes office) not on arcana like this. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2009-01-08 16:25 |
| #1 Yet it is also true that Obama comes to office with the most opaque record on Israel of any new president The guy sat in a church for 20 years that was shockingly anti-semitic. I guess that wasn't worthy of mention in this article. |
| Posted by: Gritch Brown4916 2009-01-08 16:20 |