• pingveno@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Because much of US politics at the moment is wedge issues. The leadership of both parties agree that Israel has the right to exist, but there’s a split there too. Democrats have started calling out Israel’s excesses with settlers in the West Bank, extremist right wing politics, and intentional poisoning of any peace process. Meanwhile, Republicans have allied themselves to extremist right wing authoritarian Israel politicians.

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        1 year ago

        The leadership of both parties agrees that the carrot (donor money etc) and the stick (Epstein type blackmail) works on them.