Democrats are mired in a behind-the-scenes battle over Israel’s war on Hamas, as left-leaning staffers in both the Democratic National Committee and the State Department voice increasingly strident demands for a cease-fire — threatening to split the party amid President Biden’s re-effort election.
“The president focused his 2020 campaign on the ‘Battle for the Nation’s Soul,’ but it appears the administration is now in a battle for its own soul,” an unnamed DNC official told Axios Saturday.
“I don’t know how you can see supporting the mass killing of Palestinian civilians as immoral,” the official said.
“This promises to be a long and grueling campaign, and the president is making it even harder” by supporting Israel, another party leader complained.
On Friday, 51 DNC staffers signed an open letter demanding party leaders urge Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the Huffington Post reported.
President Biden has called for a “pause” in Israel’s war against Hamas to bring aid to civilians – but not the total truce some young Democrats are demanding.AP
“As a strategic partner to the administration … we feel it is the DNC’s moral responsibility to urge President Biden to publicly call for a ceasefire,” wrote the workers, who make up more than 15% of the party’s fundraisers and campaign organizers.
“I think many of us are finding it increasingly difficult to focus on our work,” said one of the signatories.
The split is primarily between young pro-Palestinian progressives and older Dems sympathetic to Israel, the staffer said — echoing the internal clashes over the Vietnam War that derailed President Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1968 re-election.
Israeli airstrikes destroyed homes in Gaza City on Saturday as the IDF targeted terrorists hiding in the civilian population.AP
The DNC staff letter was released a day after Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin became the first senator to demand an end to Israel’s military campaign against Palestinian terror groups.
Biden did not call for an Israeli ceasefire, only for a “pause” in the fighting to “give time to remove prisoners.”
Meanwhile, a career State Department official publicly bashed Biden repeatedly against X, accusing him of “complicity in genocide.”
The Democratic Party is in the midst of an infighting with Biden’s re-election bid on the horizon.REUTERS
“Your rhetoric and approach from day one has resulted in the deaths of thousands of people,” foreign affairs official Sylvia Yacoub sent to Biden on Oct. 30, the Washington Free Beacon reported — one of more than half a dozen social media lists he has issued. on his main boss since the Israel-Hamas war started last month.
“There is a lot of blood on your hands.”
Yacoub, a former associate of the Obama Foundation and organizer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, has locked his account.
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