Pro-Palestian Protest

8 Mar 2024

Fridays at Fetterman’s enhances its usual protests in front of Senator Fetterman’s office by adding a teach-in at the local Friends Center and by then making a march to his office. We boosted our usual attendaence by many times our usual number.

We used the sidewalk most of the way.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made a speech on the 14th of March where he was very highly critical of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Schumer said that Netanyahu “has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support for Israel worldwide to historic lows.” There’s a mathematical law known as “diminishing returns” which holds that it often takes progressively greater efforts to achieve the same results. At some point, the gains are no longer worth the effort. It is the assessment of The Annual Threat Assessment of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that

Israel probably will face lingering armed resistance from HAMAS for years to come, and the military will struggle to neutralize HAMAS’s underground infrastructure, which allows insurgents to hide, regain strength, and surprise Israeli forces.

Meaning yes, Israel can continue to attack Palestinians in Gaza, but the cost in public, world reaction (And, of course, as Schumer and Biden are fully aware, with US voters) of ever-increasing numbers of dead and wounded Palestinians is only going to get worse and there will never be an end to Hamas, regardless of how much blood and devastation Israel is willing to cause.

Not at all surprisingly, the Republican Jewish Coalition is very upset over Schumer’s speech.

“As Israel continues to righteously fight to defend itself from barbaric terrorists, the most powerful Democrat in Congress knifed the Jewish state in the back,” RJC CEO Matt Brooks said in a statement.

From the Democratic side:

Meanwhile, Jewish Democratic Council of America CEO Halie Soifer praised Schumer’s remarks. “Jewish Dems commend Senator Schumer’s leadership as demonstrated by his speech today on the Senate floor.”

So yes, as Brroks says: “Today’s events serve as a clarion call to take back the White House and US Senate from this radical Democrat leadership…” Republicans have no choice. They either defend Israel’s current leadership as the majority in both the House and Senate and from the Presidency or watch as Netanyahu is sidelined and Israel is compelled to adopt a more sensible policy.