And I think it’s not only on the Middle East.
And so, it’s not clear to me what they think that one state looks like, but it’s clearly not the traditional policy we associate with the Democratic Party, which has been very supportive of Israel. ‘From the river to the sea’ is what gets chanted. He continued, “And then, more on the progressive side, they’ve shifted and adopted a policy, which has not been the traditional Democratic policy of, more or less, one state. The old strategy was just failing, and so that’s their case.”
And so, the argument they make is, we can’t go through this ceasefire rhythm over and over and over again. We’ve had multiple ceasefires with Hamas, and every time, they use the ceasefire as an excuse to rearm and reload, and then they break the ceasefire and you get more and more bloodshed.
Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, people you would call liberals, they argue that, listen, we’ve had ceasefires. On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that the progressive wing of the Democratic Party has taken a “from the river to the sea” position on Israel that completely abandons a two-state solution in favor of a vague one-state solution.īrooks said, “I think the big story here is that there’s been a rupture between liberals and progressives.
