Genocide is not a vote winner.
You sure about that? History tells another story.
Edit: I am absolutely not pro-genocide, but facts be damned.
Which history though?
I mean, Netanyahu has built a successful platform on fear, but he struggled like hell to gain a majority now, and his genocide does not seem to be popular at all with the Israeli voter. I don’t think he would have received many votes had they known it would end up like this.
The Germans never gave the NSDAP a majority, and the whole genocide thing probably wasn’t that clear to the voters either. The main thing putting Hitler in power was arguably the weak leadership of the German center right, not the electoral success of his platform.
I can’t think of a single genocide where people actively voted for it in a direct way and it won a majority. Contemporary Israel is the closest example I can think of. Netanyahu showed his true colours long ago, and the Israeli voter - much like the American Trump supporter - really should have known better.
“We support candidates from both parties solely based on one criteria – their commitment to strengthening the US-Israel relationship,” Marshall Wittmann, an Aipac spokesperson, told Politico.
Ohh look, I based my evaluation of your PAC on one criteria, too.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), the most powerful pro-Israel lobby group in the US, poured more than $4.5m into an Orange county congressional race in hopes of keeping Dave Min from advancing to the November election.
But on Tuesday, the California state senator did exactly that – outpacing his Democratic competitor Joanna Weiss to come in second in the primary for the seat of Congresswoman Katie Porter.
Min’s positions regarding Israel aren’t particularly radical – he has criticized the country’s move to expand settlements in the West Bank and blamed the Israeli prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, for “security failures” around the 7 October 2023 attacks, but has not publicly called for a ceasefire.
The ads from United Democracy Project, Aipac’s Pac, didn’t mention Min’s position on Israel but instead highlighted his arrest for drunk-driving last spring.
Weiss argued that the arrest made Min vulnerable to Republican attacks, and that Democrats needed a stronger candidate for a district that Porter only narrowly held in 2022.
“We support candidates from both parties solely based on one criteria – their commitment to strengthening the US-Israel relationship,” Marshall Wittmann, an Aipac spokesperson, told Politico.
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