{"id":24292,"date":"2011-12-07T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/the-democrats-and-israel.html"},"modified":"2011-12-07T14:57:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T21:57:14","slug":"the-democrats-and-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/the-democrats-and-israel.html","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats and Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently there are growing voices within parts of the Democratic establishment breaking from the party line on Israel — i.e., not reflexively, knee-jerkingly, unilaterally pro-Israel.<\/p>\n

What's interesting is hearing the rhetoric involved. Though not all from one side, there's a vocal group who don't seem to be able to distinguish between "Israel is not perfect, Israel's interests are not identical to the United States, and we should not be afraid to speak out for what is right and what is in our national interest"<\/i> and being a proponent for a second Holocaust. <\/p>\n

That sort of rhetoric tells me, as much as anything else, that a lot of this is driven far more by emotion than rational analysis. And that sort of thing rarely ends well in international (or national) politics. #ddtb<\/p>\n

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Apparently there are growing voices within parts of the Democratic establishment breaking from the party line on Israel — i.e., not reflexively, knee-jerkingly, unilaterally pro-Israel. What's interesting is hearing the rhetoric involved. 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