House Democrats wrote a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden urging them to halt the the transfer of weapons until a full investigation into the airstrike was completed.
He means it used to be pure political suicide for anyone in congress to say a word about not funding and defending Israel no matter what war criminal shit they got up to, and now we have a Palestinian congresswoman who says stuff like “from the river to the sea” and no AIPAC-funded candidate has primaried her yet.
I’ll fully agree with you that it remains to be seen how much of that will turn into anything substantive the US decides to do to stop the killing, but the political landscape is definitely way way different than it used to be.
He means it used to be pure political suicide for anyone in congress to say a word about not funding and defending Israel no matter what war criminal shit they got up to, and now we have a Palestinian congresswoman who says stuff like “from the river to the sea” and no AIPAC-funded candidate has primaried her yet.
I’ll fully agree with you that it remains to be seen how much of that will turn into anything substantive the US decides to do to stop the killing, but the political landscape is definitely way way different than it used to be.