Polling Shifts on Democrats and Israel Provide Insight About Mamdani’s NYC Surge
“Oh my God, that is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years. So, all of a sudden, it’s the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics, not the Israeli position.”
In the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s surprise Democrat mayoral primary victory in New York City last month, many political observers were left scratching their heads.
After all, how could a far-left radical who has expressed pro-Hamas viewpoints, supports the antisemitic BDS movement, and who previously has shown a general hostility towards Israel, win in a city with the largest Jewish population in the world, especially after the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attacks?
While his deceptive “relatable socialist” shtick and promises of free stuff were certainly part of it (not to mention the fact that Andrew Cuomo has a lot of baggage), something else that may have factored in is the dramatic shift in the Democratic Party over the last near-decade on with whom their sympathies are more closely aligned: Israel or the Palestinians?
CNN‘s data guru, Harry Enten, shared some pretty mindblowing numbers Wednesday that underscore the crossroads the Democratic Party now finds itself at on this conflict:
Enten: I mean, look, Andrew Cuomo, during the primary, attacked Mamdani as being insufficiently pro-Israel. I’m not quite sure the former governor understood how much the politics have changed around this issue among Democrats.
What are we talking about here? All right, who [do] Democrats sympathize more with, Israelis or Palestinians? In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this, they sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points. More with the Israelis than the Palestinians.
But look at this sea change. Now Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points. Oh my God, that is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years. So, all of a sudden, it’s the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics, not the Israeli position. And that is part of the reason why Mamdani was able to do so well in this primary because those attacks over Israel, simply put, did not ring true for Democrats. They are now on the side of the Palestinians, not the Israelis.
Enten went on to point out that the most significant shifts came with younger Democratic voters (those under 50 years old):
Who, age 18 to 49, [do] Democrats sympathize more with, the Israelis or the Palestinians? Again, in 2017, younger Democrats sympathized more with the Israelis by 14 points. Look at this shift now. Palestinians. They sympathize more with the Palestinians by 57 points. That is an over 70-point shift in the margin in just a matter of eight years.
So, the bottom line is, Mamdani’s base within the Democratic Party, and the base of the Democratic Party of younger voters, younger Democrats, have changed tremendously on this issue in eight years’ time.
I rarely ever see shifts like this, Kate, in which you see one side of the equation leading by 14 points eight years ago, and then all of a sudden, the other side of the equation leading by 57 points.
Watch:
Re: Mamdani & Israel, Democrats are longer pro-Israeli when it comes to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Dems sympathized more with Israelis by 13 pt in 2017. Now, it's Palestinians by 43 pt.
Among Dems under 50, it was Israelis by 14 pt in 2017. Now, Palestinians by 57 pt. pic.twitter.com/AfGop8UHTF
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 2, 2025
While obviously there is a difference between “sympathize with” and “support,” this is nevertheless a deeply troubling development for Democrats, which comes after decades of them coddling antisemitic “leaders” like Louis Farrakhan, and looking the other way when anti-Israel members of their party like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) say the quiet parts out loud.
The information from Enten may also better explain some of the panic that has set in among Democrats (especially the ones in New York) about being tied to Mamdani ahead of the 2026 midterms and the 2026 gubernatorial election in the Empire State, especially in the event that he wins four months from now:
“It’s not hesitancy, it’s absolute panic and fear – and fear that not only are they saddled with (Gov.) Kathy Hochul’s very bad polling numbers, now they have to deal with the toxic impact of Zohran Mamdani in the outer boroughs and suburbs,” the source said.
Hochul, and the other Dem leaders, now find themselves in a bind and many have held off on publicly endorsing the mayoral nominee — nearly a week after he bested former Gov. Andrew Cuomo by 70,000 votes in the first round of the ranked-choice primary.
[…]
A source close to Hochul explained endorsing Mamdani could be toxic for the governor as she eyes re-election next year and needs to stay in moderate Democrats’ and Republicans’ good graces.
“She can’t endorse him. That’ll be the election. She’ll lose Long Island,” the source said.
“She has to be a middle-of-the-line Democrat to win. Not just her, but any national Dems who stand with Mamdani will have to answer for it.”
Democrats built this. Now they must own it.
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I would be interested to see the stats on how much of the Democrat party no longer believe that the Nazi’s killed millions of Jews during WWII. I bet it would be amazing.
Or even worse, support the 3rd Reich’s actions outright.
“Oh my God, that is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years.”
It’s darkly amusing to watch the party who calls everyone ELSE Nazis recapitulating 1932 Germany.
It’d be amusing if it wasn’t a broken record. Projection and obfuscation from what they are guilty of is business as usual for the Dem party.
I think the real interesting thing to find out what percentage of the Democrats know but don’t care
And then you have big Trump supporters, like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, with their millions of Trump supporting followers, moving in the same direction.
What a dumb comparison. Sorry you are having a bad day. Tomorrow, try to be happy. It’s America’s birthday!
JR, I don’t think anyone takes Candace Owens seriously anymore. I don’t know what happened to her, but she has lost her mind and now makes the most bizarre statements. As for Tucker, I have to admit I don’t follow him anymore, but I have to wonder if you’re confusing his guests’ opinions for his. He puts a microphone in front of people, asks a few friendly questions, and just lets them talk and talk and talk. Over the course of a couple of hours, many hang themselves with their own words. The tricky part of Tucker’s system is that he has to appear friendly enough to encourage guests to appear. So I give him the benefit of the doubt. But I don’t want to listen to a two hour interview with Andrew Tate!!!
Tucker tries for gotchas. And when they don’t appear, as they often don’t (many guests are aware and guarded enough) Tucker starts talking louder, talking over, quoting them out of the context where they said something, loudly proclaims “gotcha!” and ends the show before the guest can say anything else.
He’s a good actor but people are catching on.
What a retarded take.
Were you dropped on your head as a small child?
We’re all so lucky that people like Kamala and Newsom have followers like you instead.
Get back to us when either of those two win a Republican primary for something.
“If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative when you are old, you have no brain.”
NYC Democrats have just demonstrated that it is possible to have no heart and no brain simultaneously.
That makes sense on many issues but not on hatred. They don’t just favor the arabs they outright hate Jews and Israel and they do so based upon ignorance, false information, and stupidity. That is not liberal or even progressive.
Or, like many of the students in our universities these days (I go to a NYC university campus every so often) they are Muslims. Since Obama we’ve imported a lot of Muslims who raised more here. They’re not ignorant, just enemies.
Remember when Bill Ackman went back to Harvard a few years ago and went into Widener Library and was shocked that it was full of Muslim headscarves. I see that too in NYC. The Obama longterm strategy continues.
We have 3 more years to do something about it. Trump will try.
I sit partially corrected.
That version of the saying is stupid anyway.
The original seems to be “”He who is not a republican [as opposed to a monarchist] at twenty compels one to doubt the generosity of his heart; but he who, after thirty, persists, compels one to doubt the soundness of his mind”, attributed to Anselme Polycarpe Batbie.
Mark Penn said it well:
“Zohan Mamdani is a fusion of socialism, antisemitism and Marxism dressed up to appeal to a social media generation that has become disconnected from history and reality.
The irony is that his support comes from people like himself — well off, well educated young people who have benefitted the most from the system that fed, clothed, educated and even rewards them.
Yet they are ignorant of how socialism leads to authoritarian collapse of the very freedoms they enjoy.”
https://x.com/Mark_Penn/status/1939971643016691740
Too ignorant to understand or know better. Not a good sign going forward.
They were deliberately not taught it by the commie public school system.
Schools from 1990 on teach kids about the true history of socialism just as conscientiously as 1950s schools taught them about sex.
Not inclined to let them off that easily. In the computer age, it is very easy to sit at one’s keyboard to find out about stuff. You don’t even have to go to a library to confront the old card files!
We have tried to make college mandatory for everyone, thus totally overwhelming the system. Way too many kids being babied through the system, and I am not just referring to DEI, and there are simply not enough teachers to fill the
(I’m on my phone!). … artificial need. The drop off in quality in supposedly scholarly books is amazing. Try reading some something historical geared for a mass audience published before, say, 1960,, and then compare it to something published today. That includes even our conservative hero, classist Victor Hansen. His books are written very simply. Modern academics are apparently unfamiliar with the intricacies of the English language. They certainly don’t use them.
We have educated people past their ability to comprehend.
Anyone with older children know you are right. I don’t understand the down votes because it is so obviously true.
Agreed, but it’s well beyond that.
“What Do College Students Do All Day? The Answer Isn’t Studying”
https://manhattan.institute/article/what-do-college-students-do-all-day-the-answer-isnt-studying
“In 2010, economists Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks reported: “In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about twenty-four hours per week, while his modern counterpart puts in only fourteen hours per week.””
It’s only become worse, far worse. The article sets forth the sad reality.
Beat me to it. Was just composing (in my head) a similar comment.
Problem is, they’re not just “ignorant.” If they were ignorant, then question about Israel and Gaza would draw, “Meh?” They’re ignorant because they’re misinformed, while believing their completely informed, hence their righteous attitude.
The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.
Ronald Reagan
They are not ignorant. They know what they are saying and what they are supporting.
It’s up to us to make that position unprofitable for them, to give them second thoughts. Or maybe NYC has to go thru a catharsis under Mamdani and come to reject that ideology because it is counterproductive for the city, in other words, let NYC fall.
Either it will recover, or something else will take its place. Don’t take it personally.
People keep saying that like it’s going to happen in their lifetime. It took the Soviet Union 80 years to fall. Los Angeles and Chicago have been at this game a lot longer than New York City, and while they may certainly be hurting, they’re nowhere near falling yet.
So the ayatollah can retire to NYC and get elected mayor nowadays?
I-a-told-ya I was attack NYC.
You mean, “Some people did something!”
Ilhan Omar
That just shows what a few years of war will do. The Democrats already had sympathy for the Palestinians. Since most of them get their news from Leftist sources, either corporate news or TikTok, that sympathy morphed into outright support. War is always an ugly business, but if your news source only shows one side of it, otherwise uninformed people will support the side delivering the propaganda. The Ukraine War is the same thing.
Not to mention the leftists who went into education as a subversive tool & the return on Qatar’s & Saudi Arabia’s investment in the U.S. education system.
This is more important in my view. It’s not that people’s views have changed; that rarely occurs in politics. It’s that the population is different. A young generation that received an insidious leftist indoctrination on many dimensions. Quite a few Muslims added, indigenous population weakened by a vaccination that most took. (Muslims had a religious exemption more readily available than most I think.)
The country or at least NYC is changing, not for the better, but in a direction the Dems think is better. Win some, lose some. This is a loss, so it goes.
Even if tired old Nursing Home Cuomo can be dragged across the finish line this time, the existing trend will only continue.
The propensity to be stampeded by propaganda is one of the greatest failures of human nature. If there were an eighth deadly sin, it would have to be gullibility.
One aspect I’d like to know is if the pollsters are adhering to the demographic make up of the ’24 Election cycle. It so, then this shift in younger d/prog voters makes more sense. Younger Men voted more GoP while younger Women voted more d/prog continuing a trend line.
Since younger Women have been overrepresented in College/Univ attendance/graduation for several decades it makes sense that those with more exposure to lefty/wokiesta indoctrination would display the fruits of the indoctrination in polling.
The Bible dedicated an entire book about this. It’s called “Proverbs”. It says a lot of things about “fools”.
I wouldn’t change my attitude towards the Gaza War if Israel and its citizens weren’t suffering for it. Hamas committed a vicious, murderous act of war against Israel. Israel has every right to prosecute that war now to a war’s traditional and historic end – complete victory. “Is the war worth the loss of life and destruction in Gaza that will result?” is a question Hamas long ago answered in the affirmative. Hamas owns what is happening in Gaza today, not Israel.
Colleges were affirmative-action admitting Palestinians in recent years. I remember a few years ago there was a kerfuffle about a Palestinian student that Harvard admitted, and he was denied a visa, and Harvard went to court and was able to force the visa through. I think this was just before Covid, Trump 45 administration.
Maybe the SCOTUS majority is generally helping Trump now in his radical corrective agenda because they don’t want us to become fully subjugated to the caliphate.
Maybe you just explained Trump’s animus towards Harvard. I did not remember this incident.
The vile, feckless, stupid and morally bankrupt Dhimmi-crats of the wretched Dhimmi-crat Party — enabling, whitewashing and rationalizing the pathologies and genocidal belligerence of Islamofascism and Muslim supremacism, while allying with an ideology that is diametrically opposed to everything that the Dhimmi-crats claim to stand for — rights and freedoms for women, minorities and homosexuals, and, fascism.
“…and, *anti-fascism.* “
Huey Long, you’re on in ten.
The arabs could be sympathetic figures except for their intolerance of other views and their history. That anyone would champion them other than another muslim (which shows the basic problem with Islam yet again) is obscene. Even the arabs I might have some sympathy for (those who were involuntarily ejected from what would become Israel – some were you know, and those subject to unwarranted Israel violence – they are well documented occurrences of it) have lost it by their behavior over the intervening years,
Disagree with you about unwarranted Israeli violence.
It’s happened. It’s documented and documented by Israelis. No one and no group is perfect.
unwarranted Israel violence examples?
Why even bring it up, though? You’re talking about a handful of isolated examples that run explicitly contrary to Israeli military and political doctrine, in the context of decades of Arab “Palestinian” genocidal “holy war” and attendant atrocities and attacks.
It’s not even worth mentioning, in this context, considering what Israel is up against and the incredibly unprecedented moral probity of its armed forces.
I brought it up in the context of my lack of sympathy for the arabs. I have none. They’ve forfeited with their actions over 150 years any sympathy that they may have garnered.
Most of the violence that took place between Arabs and Jews (that led to Arabs leaving their homes) took place when the Jews accepted a plan for the division of Palestine into Jewish and Arab sectors. The UN foolishly made a patchwork quilt of it, placing Jews astride lines of communication and supply of Arab towns and vice versa. This caused, in many places, all-out war between neighbors who, rightly or wrongly, saw this arrangement as a threat to their existence. Otherwise, both sides had their undergrounds that worked to make life difficult for the other. (Interestingly, the conflict didn’t begin as Muslim vs Jew, it began as Arab vs Jew, with many Christian Arabs taking side with Muslim Arabs.)
But the bulk of the Arabs who fled Israel did so voluntarily when the Arab armies requested that they do so to give them (the Arab armies) free-fire zones in which to conduct the war. The Arabs who decamped were promised the Jews’ property once they (the Jews) had been eliminated. Only it didn’t work out that way. So instead of resettling those Arabs who had fled, the Arab states saw their usefulness as poster children for Israeli “oppression.” Meanwhile, the greater portion of near 800,000 Jews who were actually driven out of Arab/Muslim countries were assimilated by Israel.
Also note that during the war for its sovereignty, Israel literally begged the Arabs to stay put. They were promised full participation in Israel’s future civic life, a promise Israel has fulfilled to those Arabs (and their descendants) who did not flee for the prospect of property at the cost of dead Jews.
Further note that today’s “Palestintian refugees” are the only such group the UN has ever called “refugees” even though nearly all of those people who were the actual “refugees” are gone, dead. But even “refugee” is a misnomer, because the Palestinians themselves claim Gaza as part of their homeland. If they moved from one place in their “homeland” to another, they’re not “refugees” at all, they’re “displaced persons.” Doesn’t quite have the same impact, does it? My point is that the conflict has been distorted to support a narrative that favors the “Palestinians,” a people who didn’t exist until they were invented, also to further the narrative.
Violence took place between Jews and arabs as long as there have been Jews and arabs in the area. This included a number of pogroms against Jews including a well known one in Haifa in I think the 1920s. wikipedia (yes I know but bear with me) has a number of lists of incidents broken down by period and sometimes by the perpetrator. It shows incidents by both Jews and by arabs, It a reasonable first approximation but I would never treat is a gospel.
Of the 800k arabs who left in 1948 I don’t know how many left voluntarily and how many were kicked out, Many left voluntarily at the urging of the 5 invading arab armies and the mufti of Jerusalem. Others didn’t and were kicked out by various Jewish groups included the Irgun. Yes some Jewish leaders notably M0sge Dayan begged the arabs to stay. Others probably didn’t.
I agree with your other points.
My opinion is the displaced arabs have remained displaced because it is a golden grifting situation for the arab leaders. Yassar Arafat amassed a fortune of about 3B. His successor Abbas and his sons are pikers only having 500M. Hamas’ leaders if any are still alive have several billion. There are plenty of Hamas leaders if still alive who have millions along with mansions in Cyprus. The stupid west falls over themselves sending pallets of money and it’s ripped off by the terrorists and it disappears into private bank accounts, We’ve seen this before by many groups.
Never let a crises go to waste if you want to make a buck.
There is also the caveat that muslims will never accept a Jewish country in that area even if it’s the size of a postage stamp. Their religion won’t allow them to, Neither will their egos.
Good summary! Thanks.
“they’re not “refugees” at all, they’re “displaced persons.” Doesn’t quite have the same impact, does it?”
Frankly, I would say it had more.
Displaced persons are so World War II. You never hear about them anymore. They’re frankly quaint.
Whereas in nearly every blue city in America, you can’t spit at the sidewalk without hitting some refugee from someplace or other.
Jews who are DemoncRats should finally wake up to the grim fact that they are not welcome in the DemoncRat party. They don’t need to leave the party; it has left them.
Many of them have already departed Judaism. They’re “Jews” by heritage only, not in practice. Without the practice, they don’t consider they have a connection to Israel. Which is odd, considering how many non-Jews do support Israel, in spite of not having a connection.
In NYC there are:
1.7 million Jews
.7 million Muslims
Which one exercises the most power?
It looks as if we’re going to have the answer to that question shortly and I’m afraid we’re not going to like it. On the intersectional hierarchy, Jews are just barely above Anglo-Whites. So, while there are only 700K Muslims in the city, there are a TON of rabid progressives who will side with the Muslims because they see it (the choice between the two) as an extension of the long simmering White/Minority race war they believe in.
Unless we, as a civilized society, can figure out a way to effectively push back on this growing tide of antisemitism (which is directly tied to the growing tied of anti-white), Jews in country are looking at a bleak future in the long-term. Not too far behind are the ‘whites’ (however the intersectional Nazis choose to define that term). IOW, if you’re a big fan of what’s going on in South Africa today, you’re gonna love the US in another 20-years.
“…if you’re a big fan of what’s going on in South Africa today, you’re gonna love the US in another 20-years.”
“Make America South Africa Again”
Nelson Mandela aka Zohran Mamdani
The obvious reply to warnings about the eventual fate of whites is that whites are currently 63% of the population. I believe that figure includes Hispanics, who are racially white but from a different culture. Blacks comprise 13% and that number seems to stay steady over the decades. (Possibly because of abortion.). The problem with American cities is that they tend to be taken over by blacks, as whites tend to move out. And Blacks are overwhelmingly Democrats.
“In NYC there are:
1.7 million Jews
.7 million Muslims”
But how many of those 1.7 million ‘Jews’ actually practice Judaism?
How many are actually progressive/socialist/communist Atheists, who are only ethnically Jewish?
We really need a one word way to differentiate between someone who practices the religion, and someone who is only related to those that do. Then maybe numbers like the 1.7 million could actually mean something.
I was schooled by Milhouse on another thread that Reform Jews, who I think are the largest denomination, are not in fact Jews. He suggested I read “To Heal the World?” By Jonathan Neumann. Since Cincinnati is the birth place of Reform Judaism, I followed his advice.
I am only a few pages into the book, and the problem is already clear. Reform Judaism has taken the admonition that they are here, indeed, to heal the world, as a command to become social warriors fighting for what is basically socialism. That is a political position, not a religious one.
And that explains the Jews for Palestine, and why Reform Jew Brad Lerner campaigned along side Mamdani in NYC, and why so many American Jews have abandoned beleaguered Israel.
(Jonathan Neumann explains it better than I just did!)
It’s not that Reform Jews are not Jews (though the majority of them are not), but that the religion they teach is not Judaism. A Jew is someone who was born to a Jewish mother, or who converted, regardless of what he believes or observes. So the Jews who started Reform were indeed Jews, who were teaching a non-Jewish religion. The minority of that movement who are still Jews are indeed Jews, but they’re not adherents of the Jewish religion. Instead their religion is socialism.
Starving babies is bad for one’s image
So, you believe Hamas’s propaganda? You forget the babies Hamas roasted on Oct. 7th.
I ‘m sure. But have you ever noticed that starving babies in Gaza look nothing like the large eyed, listless starving children from Africa? I have.
Interesting:
“A new Siena Research poll finds that a majority of Jewish voters in New York approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance and his handling of the Israel-Iran war.
The survey found that a majority of Jewish respondents, 57 percent, approve of the job Trump is doing in his second term as president, compared to 42 percent who disapprove.
Even more striking, 64 percent of Jewish voters say they approve of Trump’s handling of the Israel-Iran conflict, signaling strong alignment with his foreign policy stance in a community that has historically leaned Democratic in national elections.”
https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/07/03/shock-poll-most-jews-approve-of-trumps-job-performance-strike-on-iran/
The times, they are a changin. For the better, despite the Democratic insanity. It’s going to be a happy 4th!
It could be that NYC Jews are finally running scared. In 2020, I believe some 70% of them voted AGAINST Trump in the presidential elections. That was after the Abraham Accords. It’s a tough crowd! But Columbia has put on quite a show of anti-semiticism, which may have finally had some effect.
Old habits can be hard to break. Almost all progressive Jews think they are immune. Less now, with good reason. Many are too far gone, until they feel the wrath, and even then. Their ideas about reality and human nature are off the wall because they are removed and out of touch. Democrats, however, are sure making the break easier.
How much do you want to bet it was the same back in Germany in the bad old days?
Quote: While obviously there is a difference between “sympathize with” and “support,”
For liberals democrats, everything is about feelings. Sympathy IS support. There is no difference.
With dems finally admitting to pollsters how much they love murderous savages (especially if they are jew-hating, anti-American third worlders) maybe it’s time for the LA Times to finally release Barky’s anti-Israel hate-fest with Rashid Khalidi. This way the dems can counter that they haven’t changed one bit.
The dems are treasonous retards – demented, damaged personalities – who are little else but self-hate and nihilism, looking to destroy America and to make all of us pay for the fact that they were ever born.
I have seen many interviews with these “Supporters” of the Plaestinian movement and most of them have no idea what they are supporting. Things like “From the river to the sea”, they didn’t know what river or what sea! They did not understand that the phrase meant genocide for all Jews. The lbgt+ group that supports this cause would all be executed in Gaza and they were not aware of that fact. Most had no idea what happened on Oct 7 in Israel. It is just something to join to be like all their peers. I said at the beginning that Israel should have made the Oct 7 video avail to all, even though it would have been grisly, it would have cleared up a lot of misconceptions.
They don’t know which river or which sea, but they know which side. Ishmael hates Isaac. It’s that simple. Persuasion won’t work.
There may be a chance to break lgbtq+ off the Mamdani coalition. Look forward to lots of “pride” in NYC, don’t fight it before November! At least they don’t want to kill us or take our land, mostly they’re normal people who want to be left alone, despite favoring the “pride” stuff.
It’s clear from the results that October 7 was the opening salvo in a well organized attack on Jews world wide. Someone came up with this plan to use the expected retaliation for the Oct 7 massacres as a tool to garner support throughout the West.
Given how Hamas lost all control, gang raping young girls until their pelvises broke, machine gunning babies and toddlers – sometimes even burning them alive – it’s incredible that the Muslim world was able to use their savagery to garner support. But, as you wrote, millions of young Western women now support the Palestinian cause. There are Jews for Palestine groups and even a Queers for Palestine (let’s hope they can fly when flung off the roof tops).
You’re right – Israel did not show videos of people being tortured or killed, even though I believe Hamas took some, and of course the Israelis saw the devastation, even as they cleaned it up. There were videos of blood stained baby cribs. But no babies. It seems the Israelis have a deep respect for the murdered dead, and treat the bodies and even photos of them with extreme respect.
But to this emotional, unfocused generation, it is gut reactions that motivate them. A Gazan baby crying in the ruble. Never mind that his father is probably a member of Hamas. Never mind that Hamas barbarians called their parents to brag of their activities. The Israelis expected their rational proofs to be taken seriously. They were not.
There were some truly evil minds behind this plan. And some very stupid and easily manipulated young people who made it work. The young are a disgrace. But, perhaps more importantly, Israel needs to learn how to manipulate public opinion as well as whoever is behind this.
A trip down memory lane …
Remember when Barky and his entire administration REFUSED to say “Jerusalem” for something like a year? They just wouldn’t say the name, no matter how anyone asked them.
Remember when Barky’s DNI, Clapper, claimed that the muslim brotherhood was a secular organization?
Remember when CIA director Brennan called Jerusalem “Al Quds” during Congressional testimony? Most Americans had no idea what the hell he was talking about (and still don’t).
Mohran Jihadi fits right in, there.
I would sleep better if Clapper got himself gutted by one of the many enemies he no doubt made. True scum and I’m glad Trump lifted his protection.
Let me say clearly what I’ve said in a couple replies to comments. The Dems are not stupid. They are ideologically opposed to us. Substantive arguments will not sway them from Mamdani because they know he’ll favor them over us.
We don’t think much of them either do we? It’s a cold war in the country now. Politics has lost whatever good nature it had until 10 or 20 years ago, but we knew that. Recognize it fully.
And they’re making babies faster than we are.
Good point. I did not realize at the time what a unifying force serving in the military was in WWII. Even going through the trauma of five years of war Stateside was a shared national experience. There is absolutely nothing similar today. And you’re right, it ‘s a Cold War between liberals and conservatives.
Whether it will stay a Cold War, I don’t know. Violence definitely comes from the left. And it bothers me that the Civil War was started by the South in South Carolina. Hubris.
The war unified us yes. I believe the nation was more unified even before the second world war than we are now. My outlook is this. The phrase celebrate diversity translates to divide and conquer. Even in the days of formal segregation, we did not have all this hyphenation of the population..
True. Good point.
It appears that Sam Antar (and someone called Apple Lamps) has uncovered serious campaign finance irregularities/crimes in the Mohran Jihadi campaign involving one donor and 94% of all campaign contributions that has caused the campaign to start shifting around campaign records and the origins of contributions. It looks serious.
Oh, did Mommy finance his campaign? Interesting.
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