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Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen’s Warning to Democrats

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Last month, the Democratic National Committee belatedly released its autopsy of the 2024 election that failed to explain why the party was crushed in the election.  The Democrat’s report never mentioned a key issue that contributed to Donald Trump’s victory: Israel and Gaza.  Fortunately for the Democrats, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen has courageously stood up and lambasted the Democrats for their complicity in Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinians as well as their continued support for unlimited military assistance to Israel.

In an oped that appeared in the New York Times last week (“The Hard Truths My Party Needs to Face”), Van Hollen excoriated the Democrats for the “hypocrisy and complicity in the gross violations of the values we profess to hold dear.”  These violations included complicity in “ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, or what human rights organizations and scholars have determined to be genocide in Gaza.”  Van Hollen should have referred to the fact that several of these organizations and scholars were Israeli.

Van Hollen was specific regarding the changes that need to be made, particularly with regard to arms........

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