Being "wrong on Palestine", is not a trivial matter. Bill. He is thereby complicit in apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Just because you like the sound of his domestic agenda, may I remind you that the post war British Labour government of Attlee which gave us the Welfare State, also legitimised Israel, plotted a monarchist coup in Iran, and practiced apartheid in southern Af. But hey, great domestic policies.
It is possible that he does not want to become Corbyn (but he will be Sanders in he has a real shot at winning).
I never said Palestine was trivial - it is important and major. But it is one issue and it totally contradicts his positions on military and US empire and US role in the world, so I suspect he could be doing it because the Israel lobby is so powerful in the electoral arena (but not necessarily in governing).
Well, the lesson of Corbyn is very apposite here. Corbyn and those around him, tried to mollify the zionist lobby with apologies, and vacillation.
It didn't work.
You can't appease such people. They take compromise for weakness.
Maybe I am being harsh, I am old enough to mistrust anyone named Kennedy. But I think that to fail to act principally on such a major issue reveals a weakness and lack of true commitment.
Being "wrong on Palestine", is not a trivial matter. Bill. He is thereby complicit in apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Just because you like the sound of his domestic agenda, may I remind you that the post war British Labour government of Attlee which gave us the Welfare State, also legitimised Israel, plotted a monarchist coup in Iran, and practiced apartheid in southern Af. But hey, great domestic policies.
It is possible that he does not want to become Corbyn (but he will be Sanders in he has a real shot at winning).
I never said Palestine was trivial - it is important and major. But it is one issue and it totally contradicts his positions on military and US empire and US role in the world, so I suspect he could be doing it because the Israel lobby is so powerful in the electoral arena (but not necessarily in governing).
Well, the lesson of Corbyn is very apposite here. Corbyn and those around him, tried to mollify the zionist lobby with apologies, and vacillation.
It didn't work.
You can't appease such people. They take compromise for weakness.
Maybe I am being harsh, I am old enough to mistrust anyone named Kennedy. But I think that to fail to act principally on such a major issue reveals a weakness and lack of true commitment.