“Darfur and Gaza are very different, of course, but I recall the senator’s compassion and urgency — and I wonder, where has that Joe Biden gone?”
He didn’t go anywhere. Super easy to criticize Sudan when there is no expressed Sudanese lobby contributing vast quantities of money into American politics.
Biden’s support of Israel is/was/always will be about the money. In fact, take Biden out of it and sub in any politician that supports Israel.
“The reason for such intense scrutiny is the outsize contributions of Jewish donors to US political campaigns, with Jewish donors contributing a whopping 50% of funds received by the Democratic Party and 25% to the Republican Party, Troy says.”
Biden can afford to lose thousands of Muslim voters. He CAN’T afford to lose 1/2 of his donations.
Not saying you are wrong, but amongst the elderly the support for Israel is also so entrenched. They are from a time when Israel was the underdog and desperately needed support for survival, and simply cannot see that times have changed.
It’s not fair to say that Zionist lobby controls US policy. There are plenty of examples when US interests conflicted with Israel and the US crossed it’s ally. (Suez Canal crisis, arms sales to SArabia, Iran nuke deal)
The problem is that the US has no interest in the Palestinian cause. There’s no political or strategic advantage to a free and sovereign Palestine. This has started to change recently with younger Democratic voters demanding a policy change. And we’ve seen direct policy shifts after the Michigan and Wisconsin primary protests. If there is a political cost to supporting the occupation, American presidents will change.
Lastly, I don’t think it’s accurate to assume that Jewish contributors to the Democratic party are necessarily Zionist. Even the article you site gives many domestic reasons why an American Jew would favor the Democrats.
“Darfur and Gaza are very different, of course, but I recall the senator’s compassion and urgency — and I wonder, where has that Joe Biden gone?”
He didn’t go anywhere. Super easy to criticize Sudan when there is no expressed Sudanese lobby contributing vast quantities of money into American politics.
Biden’s support of Israel is/was/always will be about the money. In fact, take Biden out of it and sub in any politician that supports Israel.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/contrib?cycle=2018&ind=Q05
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/summary?id=D000046963
https://m.jpost.com/us-elections/us-jews-contribute-half-of-all-donations-to-the-democratic-party-468774
“The reason for such intense scrutiny is the outsize contributions of Jewish donors to US political campaigns, with Jewish donors contributing a whopping 50% of funds received by the Democratic Party and 25% to the Republican Party, Troy says.”
Biden can afford to lose thousands of Muslim voters. He CAN’T afford to lose 1/2 of his donations.
Not saying you are wrong, but amongst the elderly the support for Israel is also so entrenched. They are from a time when Israel was the underdog and desperately needed support for survival, and simply cannot see that times have changed.
It’s not fair to say that Zionist lobby controls US policy. There are plenty of examples when US interests conflicted with Israel and the US crossed it’s ally. (Suez Canal crisis, arms sales to SArabia, Iran nuke deal)
The problem is that the US has no interest in the Palestinian cause. There’s no political or strategic advantage to a free and sovereign Palestine. This has started to change recently with younger Democratic voters demanding a policy change. And we’ve seen direct policy shifts after the Michigan and Wisconsin primary protests. If there is a political cost to supporting the occupation, American presidents will change.
Lastly, I don’t think it’s accurate to assume that Jewish contributors to the Democratic party are necessarily Zionist. Even the article you site gives many domestic reasons why an American Jew would favor the Democrats.
“The problem is that the US has no interest in the Palestinian cause.”
You’re right, and the reason for that is there’s no money in it for them.