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Showing posts with label Jew vs Jew on Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jew vs Jew on Israel. Show all posts
Friday, May 25, 2012
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Democrats Split on Israel--Pitting Jew vs Jew
In a recent two-part post, Jonathan Rosenblum writes about how Democrats Split on Israel:
The current Democratic coalition is a fragile alliance of groups with often conflicting interests. For instance, President Obama recently postponed, until after the 2012 election, a decision on the Keystone Oil pipeline, which would bring Canadian oil extracted from tar in a pipeline through the United States to the Gulf of Mexico and other destinations. Environmentalists disapprove the project, just as they oppose almost any energy development other than so-called "clean energy" sources, like wind and solar power. Unions, however, see the pipeline as a major job producer, as they do the development of the United States's vast shale oil reserves and numerous other projects that would go a long way to securing America's energy independence. The President could not afford to alienate either group. So he punted.
Israel too seems destined to be another wedge issue in the Democratic coalition.
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