— Musings —04.18.2025 02:49 PM
PSA
For a long time, I’ve stood with Jews, I’ve defended the Jewish state, I’ve fought Jew hatred.
Those coming on here to say I’m not an ally anymore because I’m not a Conservative?
Give your head a shake. You’re not helping your cause.
Warren,
Some people are just plain stupid. That’s like saying someone is not a real Israeli because he or she doesn’t vote Likud.
Doctrine shaming is so 2015.
To clarify:
Anyone who claims to be a Liberal or even thinks they might be…. needs to feel welcome in the big Liberal tent.
That’s the whole damned point and that is what makes the Liberal Party different than all the other parties.
From: The Jerusalem Post
‘Impossible to bring back all hostages,’ Netanyahu spox. says’
“Prime Minister’s spokesman, Omer Dostri, said regarding the ongoing hostage deal efforts: “It is impossible to bring everyone back in one deal—this is spin”, on Saturday evening in an interview with Channel 12.”
“Dostri emphasized that “there is no one who does not want to return our hostages. We are doing everything possible to bring them home, and once we succeed in bringing them all back, we will destroy Hamas.”
‘He added that “Hamas is demanding a cessation of fighting, which makes a comprehensive deal impossible.”‘
“During the interview, Dostri did not deny a dramatic report published by The New York Times, which claimed that former US President Donald Trump blocked an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.”
It seems to me that the Liberal Party of today is filled with a plurality of dissenting voices on both China and Israel. So caucus members are being given latitude as befits their own views and those of their respective constituencies.
Just as Conservative caucus includes pro-lifers and pro-choicers; and internationalists and nativists. Again, all in one tent.
Ipso facto, it makes it tougher to know what any given cabinet and caucus will legislate should they take the ring.
Harumph.
By the bye, I’m another historical Liberal who is a Zionist. I don’t need to join the Conservatives to establish my chops on that front.
I agree with this assessment…
But I also think this is exactly as it should be.
Big, open tent parties, internal dissent, this is all good for democracy IMO.
I would go a step further, and say that the same applies to those who say you can’t be pro-Jewish unless you unilaterally support everything the Israeli government is doing right now in Gaza. It’s a stupid argument, but it allows deflection from intellectual discussion.
Some have gone so far as to claim that any critique of the Gaza war is anti-semetic. Again, this is what dumb people do when they don’t want to have an actual discussion.