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27. What is sad is the "lesson" being taken from this.

The tragic "take away" is this: If you want serve the American people in an elected office, you better not condemn the ongoing settlement and occupation of the West Bank and Gaza as the immoral violation international law and intentional obstacle to a two state solution that it is. You'd better not voice support for BDS as a means to pressure Israel to meet its obligations under international law. If you do, AIPAC and it's affiliated superpac United Democracy Project, and other power brokers will invest as many millions as necessary to bring about your defeat.

For a minute there, it seemed like criticizing Israel might be losing its status as an absolutely verboten "third rail."

If any elected official who speaks up is to be taken off the board by such a powerful lobby, our only recourse is to build a more powerful network of citizen lobbyists.