Democrats Divided Over Israel
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 1:07.0 | The war between Israel and Hamas is dividing public opinion. |
| 1:11.0 | And for Democrats in particular, the debate between army Israel and providing for its defense versus supporting Palestinians caught in the crossfire is causing some division. |
| 1:23.0 | Danielle, I wonder if you could start off with telling us what's causing Democrats in particular to split here. |
| 1:29.0 | Right. So yes, what you're seeing is some disagreement among Democrats about how to respond to this. |
| 1:35.0 | For example, you have a lot of people on the sort of progressive end of the Democratic Party largely calling for a ceasefire in the conflict right now versus |
| 1:48.0 | you have some older people and some more moderate people in the party who much more strongly support Israel and want the US to as it has for quite a while continue to quite strongly support Israel. |
| 1:58.0 | So the splits here are quite a bit about generational splits, it also ideological splits. And there are a lot of reasons for that that we can get into in a bit here. |
| 2:08.0 | But also there is one other thing to really look at. And that's also political divisions between Israel and the US. |
| 2:15.0 | For example, Israel has been led largely by conservatives for the past few decades and for US observers who are particularly attuned to that conflict and to the politics of Israel. |
| 2:29.0 | The right leaning nature of Israel, especially Benjamin Netanyahu might be pushing them in a more sympathetic direction towards Palestinians. |
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