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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a liberal Dem. This woman is causing too much trouble for the party[/quote]

It's only considered 'trouble' because the israeli lobby, as described by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, have taken over the leadership of the Democratic party.

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I don't think this is true. It is another case of the Democratic leadership responding to critics acting in bad faith and not taking time to get the facts. The Democrats needs to learn to take time to catch their breath and not immediately cower in front of every manufactured outrage. Now they have created a self-inflicted problem for themselves.

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Matt Yglesias has written about this a bunch as have others. Israel is a wedge issue in the democratic party because leadership is beholden to current hyper-pro israel posture whereas the base isn't.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/29/14102754/kerry-israel-speech

[quote]Israel, for example, is an issue on which Democrats are fairly badly divided. Most Democrats — broadly in line with Obama — have a liberal-ish view on Israel that emphasizes support for a two-state solution, a democratic version of Zionism, and support of Israel’s hard security needs but not its expansive claims for territory. Most Democrats also simply don’t see this as a particularly pressing issue.

But there is a substantial minority of Democrats — including a number of important elected leaders — who line up with conservatives in steadfastly supporting an aggressive vision of Israeli nationalism. Meanwhile, on a grassroots level many rank-and-file liberals thirst for a more critical line on the conflict than Obama or other party leaders have been willing to take. Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned the UN resolution and criticized Obama for allowing it through. Bernie Sanders, by contrast, pushed (unsuccessfully) to change the Democratic Party platform to condemn Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. 
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