Biden leads new group of Democrats calling for Israel’s removal
Minnesota’s Democrat Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith recently joined 17 other senators in their party’s leftward lurch by urging the Biden administration “to take decisive action to bring about a two-state solution once and for all” and calling for “U.S. recognition of a Palestinian state” after the conclusion of the war in Gaza.
In doing so, they are ignoring reality, refusing to apply the lessons learned from past peace attempts, tossing our ally, Israel, under the bus, and incentivizing terrorists around the globe by providing strategic rewards for the tactical atrocities they carry out to further their malign ambitions.
By engaging in these dangerous fantasies, these senators have revealed themselves to be little more than a mirror of the Progressive Squad in the House led by Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5).
President Joe Biden bears much of the responsibility for exacerbating this fissure.
Sure, the Squad has long derided Israel, has little use for America’s traditional alliances, and often dabbles in antisemitic tropes and identity politics, but the party’s old guard always told us that they were merely outliers in the Democrat Party. The proverbial center would hold.
But in the wake of the horrific October 7 massacres and kidnappings in Israel, it wasn’t Ilhan Omar and company who beat a path to the center of the political spectrum.
It was President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Minnesota’s Senator Amy Klobuchar—the Democrats’ so-called moderates—who raced to the left to hoist the flags of the Squad.
This trajectory, where the once fringe views of the left are becoming increasingly mainstream in the Democrat Party, is unmistakable.
Their new initiation rite appears to be wire-brushing Israel in public as a nod to their ever-growing and restive base of anti-Israel and antisemitic voters.
In recent months it’s become clear that President Biden no longer supports Israel’s goals of removing the Hamas terrorist group from power and securing the return of all hostages in Gaza.
Instead, he now favors a unilateral ceasefire by Israel, which he hopes to further expand for the expressed purpose of creating a Palestinian state.
To that end, Biden has only applied pressure on Israel, rather than on Hamas or their patrons in Qatar and Iran, which ensures Hamas’ rejection of any agreement, including the latest proposal this week.
He sealed the fate of the 129 hostages held in Gaza since October 7—including six Americans—when he ensured a one-sided UN Security Council resolution passed in March with a U.S. abstention that de-coupled a ceasefire in Gaza from the release of the hostages.
The predictable results are increasing demands by Hamas and the leftward sprint by Senate Democrats.
There’s a recognizable method to the White House madness.
The administration began cynically portraying a non-existent divide between the Israeli public and their democratically elected leaders as cover for its increasingly searing invective against Israel.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer then Joe Fraser is a retired intelligence officer who spent 26 years serving our country in the United States Navy. He is the Republican candidate for the United States running to defeat Amy Klobuchar in November.
Dalia al-Aqidi is the Executive Director of the American Center for Counter Extremism and the Republican candidate running against Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District.
