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The only reason they are changing their mind is because it's too big to ignore because it's been ignored for too long. It didn't have to get this bad and something could have been done a long time ago but they chose not to. Never let them forget that they let this happen and that they knew it was happening.
Another day, another PSA.
A photo of Bernie Sanders overlayed with the text: “I am once again asking that we stop referring to far-right conservatives as ‘moderate’ whenever they happen to be Democrats.”
Give them a verbal pat on the back, then vote them out in favor of a candidate not funded by AIPAC.
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/ritchie-torres/summary?cid=N00044346
Wild that genocide was okay until they started losing seats over it.
Is Donald Trump dead yet?
These flavor of the week assholes? 
He insisted his long-held defense of Israel still stands. “I feel it’s possible to be an unapologetic Zionist while at the same time recognizing there’s a crisis in Gaza and recognizing the war has poorly defined strategic objectives,” he said.
That's literally impossible...
Being a Zionist means you support the illegal settling of Palestine, with the eventual goal of absorbing all of Palestine's land and none of it's native population.
Zionism[a] is an ethnocultural nationalist[b] movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine,[2] a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism[3] and central to Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.[4]
Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to newer waves of antisemitism and in response to the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment.[5][6] The arrival of Zionist settlers to Palestine during this period is widely seen as the start of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Zionist claim to Palestine was based on the notion that the Jews' historical right to the land outweighed that of the Arabs.
Career politician trying to buy votes with empty words.
He's only trending with the rest of the party because he has to. Otherwise he'll be deemed out of touch with his constituents.
It's perverse to call genocide supporters "moderate". And they don't need "Change tone", they need to stop supporting genocidal fascists. My god, America truly is fucked.
The worst part of this is that the distance from isreali support is only rhetorical and not practical; the isrealis will continue to get weaponry and funding to prop up apartheid, but Democrats will pretend that it's not happening.
The "window to prevent mass death is rapidly closing, and for many it's already too late," one senior humanitarian official told NBC News.
Liberals two years dragged their feet until they could safely say "There's nothing we can do" and then pivoted to a middling "We feel bad about this but there's nothing we can do" stance. Hey, look, it's 2009/2019 all over again.
I will say that one upshot of Mamdani winning in NYC on a "Stop the genocide a little bit" platform is that Richie Torries may have cost himself his lifelong sinecure in a safer-than-safe House seat. But that's a single vote in a body swimming with AIPAC loyalists and anti-Arab eliminationists.
As a matter of foreign policy, we still seem entirely on board with starving every recalcitrant nation's people, from Afghanistan to Libya and Bolivia to Haiti. I don't see that changing in my lifetime. Certainly not when we've been subjecting Cuba and Venezuela and Iran to decades of sanctions explicitly intended to bring about social decay and mass death.
Moderate Democrats will shift their rhetoric from "We fully support our allies in their campaign to bring Freedom and Liberty!" to "We are distressed to learn the outcomes of our foreign policy were what we originally intended." But the policies themselves? Who is actually going to vote against sending another batch of bunker buster bombs and hellfire missiles to Israel? Who is going to lift the ban on cargo shipping to Havana or unfreeze state assets to pay for relief and rebuilding supplies in Port-au-Prince or Kabul? Who is going to stand up in the Senate and block a State Department appointee intent on sending another round of filibustering mercenaries into Nicaragua or Venezuela or Bolivia?
This won't end until the leadership of these parties is removed from power.
[It's disgusting how feeble and late this is, but it is an indication of how popular sentiment continues to shift against Israel. 👍 ]
I don't think that's really what's happening here , yes every person with a sliver of humanity will not want to have anything to do with Israel and it's supporters, ever. But the reason these "moderates" are saying stuff like this is because they know the last stages of ethnic cleansing are being rolled out and they are preparing the field so they can say "I didn't like it you see, but it's done now we have to move on". These people have 0 remorse and this is nothing more than a cynical ploy to further assist Israel in it's genocide. These people need to be removed from society if we ever want to create a better world.
Also IIRC politico has been deepthroating Israel since day 1, which is more confirmation that this "moderate shift" is nothing more then a tactic to advance the genocide.
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