> You neatly snipped out the part where I noted that the Number Two Dem in
the
> House, Bonior, was personally meeting with Arafat as early as 1982 to try
to
> organize direct talks between the PLO and the US and that in 1988, roughly
> half the Senate Dems, including the present Majority Leader Daschle,
> publicly condemned the Shamir government's policy during the first
intifada.
Wow, "roughly half" the Democrats publicly condemned the Shamir government? You know who else did? George Bush and James Baker. It was the most internationally reviled government in Israeli history, it routinely said fuck you to US policies. I'm surprised only half the Democrats criticized it.
Bonior - granted - is a lot better. But man...talk about an outlier. He has a heavily Muslim district. Whereas even Democrats with no Jews in their districts are rabidly pro-Israel.
Seth