Tag: Jews

Hamas Rejects Historic UN Resolution While Israel Worries About Hidden Dangers | Einat Wilf Analysis

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The reason the two-state solution always fails is because Palestinians don’t want to live next to an Israeli state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIOk676KGc

National Conservatism Has a Bigotry Problem, Whether Yoram Hazony Wants To Admit It or Not

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“The implication was that people like the Holocaust-denying Gen Z influencer Nick Fuentes and his army of online followers (“Groypers”) were not welcome in the natcon tent. “I think that the border is clear,” Hazony said. “Blood and soil is literally a Nazi term….We are not interested in a nationalism of blood.”
Yet on the first day of this year’s National Conservatism Conference (“NatCon 5”) in Washington, D.C., Hazony gave a speech that didn’t just fail to clarify which elements of the extreme right should not be counted as natcons in good standing; it seemed explicitly to carve out space within the movement for those with antisemitic views. “Nobody ever said that to be a good natcon you have to love Jews,” Hazony, who is Jewish, said. “Go take a look at our statement of principles. It’s not a requirement.”

The comment was in keeping with the larger theme of his speech, which was on the importance of holding MAGA together at all costs. “You can’t win elections without a coalition, and thank God Trump and Vance are great at coalition building,” he said. “But what I’ve discovered in these last few months is that there are some people who just—they’re not into this. They don’t want the coalition. What they want is to be pure.””

So this coalition includes a basket of deplorables?

https://reason.com/2025/09/08/national-conservatism-has-a-bigotry-problem-whether-yoram-hazony-wants-to-admit-it-or-not/

Trump, Israel, and the Future of Liberal Democracy — with Ezra Klein | Prof G Conversations

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Israel is committing war crimes. However horrible a terrorist organization is, whatever that organization will or will not agree to, holding a civilian population hostage is not justifiable. The U.S. makes mistakes in its wars, but has not tried the mass starvation of civilians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPsu4pMpIjk

Members of Congress have taken hundreds of AIPAC-funded trips to Israel in the past decade

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“Trips to Israel are only one piece of a multipronged strategy for promoting Israel’s interests. AIPAC hosts an annual conference for elected officials in the Washington, D.C., area, which former Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) called the “largest gathering of members of Congress” other than the State of the Union.
The organization spent over $3 million on lobbying last year, and its spending in 2024 currently places it among the top 3 percent of all lobbyist groups tracked by OpenSecrets. Its PAC and super PAC also helped funnel a combined $50.9 million into the 2022 election cycle alone, according to OpenSecrets.

Still, AIPAC’s prolific recruitment of members and staff for travel to Israel — travel which cost at least $10 million, according to LegiStorm data for 2012-2023 — demonstrates the importance AIPAC places on its travel program. According to the Howard Center’s analysis, roughly half of the current members of the House have traveled with the organization since 2012.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/30/israel-aipac-funded-congress-travel-00185167