True, but Israel/Palestine was complex back in the 80s and 90’s too in the heady days of Madrid and the Oslo Accords.
However most Americans could still then juggle and comprehend a coexistence of Israeli security concerns with the Palestinian POV on human rights and grievances under the occupation. Supporting the 2SS and hence opposing …
True, but Israel/Palestine was complex back in the 80s and 90’s too in the heady days of Madrid and the Oslo Accords.
However most Americans could still then juggle and comprehend a coexistence of Israeli security concerns with the Palestinian POV on human rights and grievances under the occupation. Supporting the 2SS and hence opposing the settlements WAS the pro-Israel consensus position by both parties.
Now it’s a radical left-wing position—disqualifying for any potential executive branch political appointee to hold.
I'd be curious to compare polling from the Oslo era with now--what percent of Republican primary voters supported 2SS then versus now. My sense is that most of the movement has been on the right--that is, 2SS isn't something that a centrist Democrat even today would view as radical, but an average Republican today would.
There's also a thing going on where Republican elites are skewing closer to what their voters would say they wanted in polls. Hard to tell the dog from the tail there.
True, but Israel/Palestine was complex back in the 80s and 90’s too in the heady days of Madrid and the Oslo Accords.
However most Americans could still then juggle and comprehend a coexistence of Israeli security concerns with the Palestinian POV on human rights and grievances under the occupation. Supporting the 2SS and hence opposing the settlements WAS the pro-Israel consensus position by both parties.
Now it’s a radical left-wing position—disqualifying for any potential executive branch political appointee to hold.
I'd be curious to compare polling from the Oslo era with now--what percent of Republican primary voters supported 2SS then versus now. My sense is that most of the movement has been on the right--that is, 2SS isn't something that a centrist Democrat even today would view as radical, but an average Republican today would.
There's also a thing going on where Republican elites are skewing closer to what their voters would say they wanted in polls. Hard to tell the dog from the tail there.
I dunno; it's complicated!