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December 3, 2024

Senate Radicals Turn on Israel, While the Democratic Establishment Looks On

Chuck Schumer didn’t even try to stop a vote to withhold arms.

On November 20—just two days after a massive Hizballah rocket barrage killed an Israeli civilian and injured ten others—Senator Bernie Sanders led an effort to block arm sales to Israel. The three measures advanced by Sanders and his ideological allies naturally failed, but the real story, as Melissa Langsam Braunstein tell it, is about the growing divide within the Democratic party, and the feebleness of the centrist establishment:

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