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12 May, 9 tweets, 3 min read
AOC's Attack on Yang's Meaningless Israel Statement Shows Her Role: Protect Dem Leaders

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Real power over US policy toward Israel and Gaza rests with Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, Blinken - not Yang. But AOC's function is to shield them from leftist anger.

Pelosi's statement was the same as Yang's. Unlike him, her views matter. Can anyone imagine AOC attacking her?
The Biden State Department has been steadfastly supportive of the Israeli attacks. Biden is one of the most pro-Israel politicians in US life. Schumer, Blinken, Harris and Austin run US foreign policy. So AOC directs leftists' anger away from them to Yang: that's her function.
Unlike Pelosi or dozens of AOC's Dem comrades in the House and State Dept, Yang today issued a statement basically apologizing for his ignoring Palestinian suffering. Pelosi hasn't and won't. Ned Price never will. And they won't appear in an AOC tweet.

With her radical lifestyle branding, militant poses, and slightly edgier rhetoric, AOC assuages the fears of millions of liberal-left Democrats that they have turned into their establishmentarian parents by endlessly cheering for Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Schumer. It's her role.
There's this rock-solid bipartisan consensus on Israel. The statements of Pelosi and Carolyn Maloney sound identical to Marco Rubio and Liz Cheney's. But Dems that control the WH, Exec Branch and Congress. *That* is where AOC could make an impact.

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And as I note at the end of this article, I'm working on interviewing prominent MAGA supporters to understand how they can reconcile an "America First" ideology with sending billions every year to this foreign nation and intervening on its behalf:

This is how you criticize politicians who matter and wield power over US policy toward Israel. US policy toward Israel and Palestine rests with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Antony Blinken. They're who are responsible:

The left/right paradigm has eroded on many issues over the past 5 years, but Israel/Gaza is one where those old divisions remain.

It's also an issue that shows how much bipartisan consensus there is on foreign policy & what a fraud the Biden Admin's "human rights" rhetoric is.

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The Biden Admin is in federal court to battle a request by an Afghan citizen to be released from Guantanamo, where has been held *14 years* with no charges. His argument: the US isn't even at war any more with the Afghan self-defense militia he joined:

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The Biden DOJ is in court insisting that he remain in a due-process-free cage -- citing their ongoing war with Al Qaeda, to which he never belonged -- even while they lie to their gullible liberal followers that they want to close Guantanamo: same as the Obama DOJ did in 2009.
This guy isn't a "terrorist." He is an Afghan who defended his country against invasion & occupation by foreign armies: something every American claims they would do, too.

Let me ask, about this & Israel: how many years would you wait to fight against a foreign occupying army?
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All the people who care about Liz Cheney are either already in the Lincoln Project protecting predators so they don't interrupt their liberal money stream or have CNN and MSNBC contracts. Maybe there are like 5 old Bush Family friends in Texas who also care: maybe.
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