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- Thread starter Diogenes
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But But but ...Genocide! Forget that 20% a of Israeli citizens are Palestinians and they govern in the Knesset . and serve in the IDF. Yeah forget about that.
Democrats' "strongly-held principles" seem to evolve depending on who occupies the White House, don't they?
They do. Obama said vote for the Black lady until Winsom Sears ran
That's not Gaza-related, though.
Try these pivots on for size:
Many prominent Democrats publicly condemned or expressed extreme hostility toward Palestinians long before Donald Trump was elected POTUS.
Here are just a few documented examples from well before November 2016:
- Hillary Clinton (2000, 2006, 2008, 2014)
- As First Lady in 2000: condemned Palestinian “incitement” and “culture of violence.”
- As Senator in 2006: co-sponsored the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act to cut all U.S. aid unless Palestinians “recognize Israel, renounce terror, and dismantle their terrorist infrastructure.”
- 2014 memoir Hard Choices: “The Palestinian leadership’s refusal to accept… has been the primary impediment to peace.”
- Chuck Schumer (multiple times pre-2016)
- 2007 Senate floor: “Hamas is a terrorist organization… we should have no dealings with them.”
- 2014 Gaza war: “Israel has a right to defend herself against these vicious rockets… Hamas started and continues this conflict.”
- Nancy Pelosi
- 2008 trip to Israel: “Anybody who has been following the Palestinian-Israeli conflict knows that Hamas has brought nothing but violence and disruption.”
- 2014: “If [Palestinians] want peace, they should stop firing rockets into Israel.”
- Joe Biden
- 1982 Senate hearings: threatened to cut aid to Israel if they didn’t get tougher on Palestinians.
- 2007: “Were there no Israel, there’d be no need for an America in the Middle East… The Palestinians have been given opportunity after opportunity and have rejected each one.”
- John Kerry (as Senator and later Secretary of State pre-2016)
- 2014: repeatedly blamed Palestinian “incitement” and “rejectionism” for failed talks, while defending Israeli settlement expansion.
- Democratic Party platforms
- 2004, 2008, 2012: zero mention of Palestinian human rights, zero criticism of Israeli occupation, repeated pledges of “unbreakable” support for Israel and condemnation of Palestinian terrorism.