Opinion AIPAC Must Stop Bernie Sanders – at All Costs
'Never Bernie' AIPAC now sounds a lot like a pro-Trump caucus, not a bipartisan pro-Israel lobby. But it has no choice
Jonathan S. Tobin Feb 12, 2020 5:29 PM
This past week AIPAC found a way to alienate just about everyone in the American political world.
After the group’s decision to run Facebook ads calling out some Democrats as "radicals" and "anti-Semitic" only to apologize for doing so, both liberals and conservatives were disgusted with the pro-Israel lobby, accusing it of political bias as well as incompetence. But while there was much to criticize about its choices, maybe it’s time to acknowledge that in the 2020 election year, AIPAC has been given an impossible task with no possible path to success.
The problem facing the pro-Israel lobby is that the political climate simply isn’t conducive to the way it has carried out its mission for the last several decades. In more normal political times, it was easy for the group to act as an umbrella group uniting supporters of Israel from the right, left and center behind a common agenda of support for Israel’s government and the Jewish state’s security.
Read more at: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-aipac-must-stop-bernie-sanders-at-all-costs-1.8512287?utm_source=traffic.outbrain.com&utm_medium=referrer&utm_campaign=outbrain_organic
A pretty interesting read... pretty simply summed up is that the Democrats are moving away from Israel, Bernie moving a lot from them??
That Michael Bennet, the candidate who just dropped out of course, is pro-Israel, Former Senator Lieberman of course, is very pro-Israel.
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Author of the article is Johnathan Tobin, that name certainly sounds familiar but I'm not sure from where.
