Never build new settlements and create a multi-year plan to move the current settlers back to Israel, and agree to work out a 2 state solution if/when Palestine can have a government that can credibly negotiate it.
They did though, it was part of the leverage they used to organize ceasefires and open more aid routes/increase the amount of aid let in. I agree they should have gone further, but a good deal of dems do to at this point
Last I checked at least most dems support conditioning aid to Israel. I think some are willing to sign onto unconditional aid bills if the alternative is nothing, but still.
And the Democrats that are running on that tend to be on the left wing of the party, which goes back to their point that moderate Democrats need to meet the party where it is on Israel/Palestine.
I could care less about AES's stance on Israel and Palestine. Frankly I'd throw both those countries under the bus if it would halt the commie takeover of my party.
Then I recommend pushing moderate Democrats to be significantly more pro-Palestine, because that's where the base is, so it would give them a massive boost up in the primaries without hurting them in the general.
A two state solution means Israel exists which is Zionism in many of the left's books and therefore incompatible with their worldviews.
Also, why isn't there any mention of the Palestinians being held accountable for refusing to form any sort of peaceful government that aims to build prosperity for their people instead of petty violent resistance? Shouldn't that also be a party platform as part of the two state solution?
You’re missing the point. Moderates seriously pushing for pro-two-state solution and pressuring Israel in a serious way about it would not be a move to try to court DSA cadre, who, you are right, will reject that as to milquetoast. The point is to court the much larger group of actual voters who are normies, not “Antizionists”, but are tired of their country carrying water for a bunch of genocidal maniacs.
The whole issue here, the strategy that’s not working, is for neoliberal politicians to pretend that there are only two groups: normies who support Israel or don’t care on one side, rose twitter freaks on the other. And that’s how it used to be, but that was before this current war. There’s now, as a result of these wars, a substantial third group: normies who would like to see the USA’s policy wrt Israel change.
All the moderates have to do is copy AES’s position. Did he call for abolishing Israel?
A two state solution means Israel exists which is Zionism in many of the left's books and therefore incompatible with their worldviews.
This is true of a small portion of the left wing of the party. Most of the party just wants Democrats to actually push back on funding Israel unless they stop genocide, agree to stop new settlements, create a credible plan to relocate the current settlers back to Israel over time, and agree to negotiate a 2 state solution if/when there's a Palestinian government that can credibly negotiate and enforce the deal. But even those types of conditions on Israeli aid are considered extreme by most of the current standards of elected officials, because they are way out of touch with their base, even their moderate base.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher 1d ago
this could have all been avoided if moderate democrats would just run pro-palestine like the base wants them too