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Democratic Party Battle Lines Harden Over Israel-Hamas War
With the election less than a year away, President Joe Biden’s progressive coalition is showing signs of fraying.
“Internal State Dept. memo blasts Biden, U.S. policy on Israel-Hamas war,” reported Hans Nichols for Axios on Monday.
“An internal State Department dissent memo accuses President Biden of ‘spreading misinformation’ on the Israel-Hamas war and alleges that Israel is coming ‘war crimes’ in Gaza, according to a copy of the memo obtained by Axios,” revealed Nichols.
“The scathing five-page memo — organized by a junior diplomat who has suggested on social media that Biden’s support of Israel has made him ‘complicit in genocide’ in Gaza — offers a rare look at the raw divisions within the Biden administration over the Israel-Hamas war,” Nichols wrote.
The exclusive Axios scoop confirmed the rumors swirling around Capitol Hill in recent weeks that all is not well within the Democratic Party. On the subject of the Israel/Hamas war, a sharp divide has opened between the majority of Democrats who are neutral, moderate, or supportive of Israel and a smaller but vocal cohort of progressives who favor Hamas.
Many progressives continue to defend Hamas despite the heinous October 7 terrorist attack it perpetrated on Israel — even as over 200…