New this morning: Democrats embrace a tougher tack toward Israel as violence flares in the region. Biden now under pressure from the left to forcefully condemn Israeli settlements, looming evictions, & strikes like the one in Gaza this morning.
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“We’re in this moment today because Hamas made a horrible mistake and fired rockets unprovoked into Israel. But we also got here because the Israeli government has effectively eliminated the prospect of a viable future Palestinian state,” Sen. @ChrisMurphyCT told me.
“it’s even more important for the United States to draw a harder line with the Israeli gov’t and demand that these settlements and these evictions and these displacements stop,” Murphy says. “Because the violence will not end...if the Palestinians feel like they have no future”
.@AOC pointed to a “strong generational shift” that is undergirding the disdain for the foreign policy establishment in Washington.
“The fact that this administration is even hesitating to take such a basic humane stance is disappointing and unacceptable,” she says
“The fact that this administration is even hesitating to take such a basic humane stance is disappointing and unacceptable,” she says
.@SpeakerPelosi: “Many of our members in our caucus are great friends of Israel but understand, also, that we respect the self-determination, that we want a two-state solution in the region. But that doesn’t give license to Hamas to bomb Israel.”
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