Israel Palestine News:
"Democratic bigwigs create group to promote Israel to progressives. ... New York Jewish Week reports that the group was formed 'to counter the drift — if not dive — away from support for Israel within the party.' Israel partisans are concerned at the growing support among Democrats for Palestinian human rights, as awareness of the situation has grown in recent years.
Numerous humanitarian agencies have documented Israeli human rights violations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Christian Aid, the International Red Cross, and others.
In addition, videos of Israeli settlers destroying Palestinian crops, Israeli soldiers beating people, including children, and killing unarmed protestors have become increasingly available on the Internet."
-->Of course, this story didn't get much national media attention. The Israel Lobby seldom appears in the NYT. Our own Rep. Delgado, is nowhere on Palestinian rights, while he accepted over $25,000 from the Israeli Lobby last year. Some progressive he is.
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=q05&cycle=2020&recipdetail=H&mem=Y
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Mondoweiss:
"Pro-Israel advocates are overjoyed at the prospect of Joe Biden becoming the Democratic nominee for president this week. They say there has Never been a nominee from any party who is so pro-Israel, that Joe Biden personally wrote the Democratic platform that is 'straight down the line' behind Israel, and that his choice of Kamala Harris as veep reflects his love of Israel. And as for the 'hypercritical' new members of Congress, that attitude will be 'defeated' under Biden.
'We’ve actually never had a nominee on any side of the aisle for president who has a longer and stronger record than Joe Biden,' Halie Soifer of the Jewish Democratic Council of America said on an American Jewish Committee zoom call yesterday. 'He was elected in 1972 to the Senate and has been working on these issues with nine Israeli prime ministers ever since. There is no one with a stronger record on Israel to run for president than Joe Biden and we can all rest assured that as president he would only strengthen the relationship.' "
-->There has been a lot of coverage of Sleepy Joe, but very little on his long standing ties to Israeli apartheid. Looks like he won't be much different than Demented Donald.
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Common Dreams:
"'Immoral, Criminal, Inexcusable': Climate Groups Furious as DNC Drops Support for Ending Fossil Fuel Handouts From Platform. 'It's outrageous that the Dem establishment is caving to big money donors and moving backwards on fossil fuel subsidies.'
Environmentalists reacted with outrage late Tuesday to news that the Democratic National Committee this week quietly removed from the final party platform an amendment calling for an end to federal subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, a longstanding demand of climate activists that both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris supported during the primary. ...
The move represents a step back from the Democratic Party's 2016 platform—which included language supporting an end to tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel companies—at a time when analysts say throwing taxpayer money at the flagging industry makes less sense than ever."
-->It makes sense to Big Oil which bankrolls the Democratic Party leaders. It is quite a story, and shows vividly how much this party is run by corporate America. As usual, the NYT misses this story completely.
