March 14, 2007
While it is a political matter-of-fact that political candidates cannot side with our issues exclusively, it remains a bewildering annoyance that on the most important foreign policy issue to us , the Israel-Arab conflict, we cannot seem to see eye to eye with any major party or viable candidate. Mark my words, the next time we hold a candidates' night or a fund raiser for a candidate, you will see and hear them pitch their appeals to issues dear to our - including opposition to how Bush is conducting the post-war operation in Iraq and the perceived dangers to civil liberties of the post-USA Patriot Act - but they will artfully avoid one issue:
Most candidates will bypass saying anything substantive about the Israeli-Palestinian issue. Not because they may not have a viable solution, but because saying the moral thing may cost them their political life. It is up to us to make sure this fate is not so predictable.