House passes measure backing two-state solution
As House Democrats move toward drafting articles of impeachment against Trump, the chamber’s Democratic leadership is also advancing other measures, including a vote today on endorsing a two-state Israeli-Palestinian solution.
As House Democrats move toward drafting articles of impeachment against Trump, the chamber’s Democratic leadership is also advancing other measures, including a vote today on endorsing a two-state Israeli-Palestinian solution.
The Washington Post reports:The measure was the latest example of House Democrats wading into the divisive realm of U.S.-Israel relations, an outgrowth of a broader controversy over the party’s weakening support for Israel’s
right-wing government and its willingness to police seemingly anti-Semitic remarks by members of its ranks.
The vote was 226 to 188, with five Republicans breaking ranks and joining Democrats in backing the resolution.
The vote was 226 to 188, with five Republicans breaking ranks and joining Democrats in backing the resolution.
The legislation declares that “only the outcome of a two-state solution . . . can both ensure the state of Israel’s survival as a Jewish and democratic state and fulfill the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people for a state of their own.”
The vote serves as an implicit rebuke of Trump’s policies on Israel, coming a month after the president’s administration announced the US would no longer consider Israeli settlements in the west bank to be illegal.
But the vote was also notable for the four Democrats who opposed the measure from the left: congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, the four freshman lawmakers known as “the Squad.”
