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‘Oh My God!’ CNN’s Data Guru Stunned By Democrats’ 70-Point Shift on Israel (www.mediaite.com)

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CNN data guru Harry Enten broke down the latest polling in the Democratic Party on views toward Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday and marveled at the massive shift in attitudes, declaring he’s “rarely” seen anything like it in his many years of looking at polling data.

Enten spoke to anchor Kate Bolduan in the context of Zohran Mamdani’s sweeping victory over ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary last week.

"What are we talking about here? All right, who do Democrats sympathize more with: Israelis or Palestinians? In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. Look at this. They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points—more with the Israelis than the Palestinians. But look at this sea change. Now, Democrats sympathize more with the Palestinians by 43 points.Oh my God! That is a change in the margin of 56 points over the course of just eight years. So all of a sudden, it’s the pro-Palestinian position that actually reigns supreme in Democratic politics, not the Israeli position. And that is part of the reason why Mamdani was able to do so well in this primary, because those attacks over Israel, simply put, did not ring true for Democrats"

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Israel is the world's largest and oldest concentration camp for Jews. The citizens are mostly trapped there. Someone like Netanyahu isn't living your average life of an Israeli citizen, either. It's not zero sum. They are all being enslaved and they are all in extreme danger, Palestine much more so and much more urgently as of right now, but the Israeli people are also in danger as well

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The survey, conducted in March and published by Haaretz newspaper on Thursday, found that 82 percent of Israeli Jews support the forced expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, 47 percent of Israeli Jews answered yes to the question: "Do you support the claim that the [Israeli army] in conquering an enemy city, should act in a manner similar to the way the Israelites did when they conquered Jericho under the leadership of Joshua, ie to kill all its inhabitants?" The reference is to the biblical account of the conquest of Jericho.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support-expulsion-palestinians-gaza-poll

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, they live in a giant fascist concentration camp... it's like interviewing North Koreans. They can get hurt, beat up

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why do people move there, then? They have a democracy. I think it's more like living in the US where we elect our fascists. You don't see South Koreans clamoring to support NK nor immigrating there.

Plenty of Israelis do not support the war and want a quick resolution. Then there are the fascists and fanatics that have been displacing Palestinians and settling territory for years prior. Complex for sure, but a concentration camp it is not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Because they flew them there for eugenicist decades long experiments. Ghilisaine Maxwell's dad is a notable example, i can give you a link about him doing that (flying Eastern European teens to Israel). The anti-Jewish hate was so severe they paid for Jews to be flown out of Europe and other countries to be basically imprisoned there. Many Jews now cannot escape. They are gaslighted about it and told it is a holy place they should visit and live at, but a lot of them know the truth and refuse to set foot in the place and call it evil.

And it's a great place for psychopathic wealthy poeple who can move there to buy the people stuck in the city.

There's substantial evidence Trump wasnt elected the 2nd time.

North Korea is a slave state of China and the slavery there looks different than the slavery in Israel. There's no concerted effort to get every Korean quarantined into North Korea, is there? There's no genocidal drive to harm Koreans afaik, maybe some Japanese or Chinese tensions in that direction but no actual movement.

Just like the slavery in Dubai look different to both of these, which the Philippines has extensively publicly talked about due to their women being victims of trafficking in Dubai. Dubai and Israel (and Las Vegas and any desert city) are similar in that they have no where to run to that isnt death/the desert. Like if they flee the city by foot, they can die of exposure. The desert acts better than prison walls. That's part of why the homeless tell you to never be homeless in Vegas bc you will never be able to escape. Islands can be similar to this as well, and ships and fishing likewise have slavery on them which uses the water to trap people in. Some people have been enslaved on 1 tiny fishing boat for decades.

I do think the US is a large work camp too though, yeah, but it is also where refugees have historically fled to from all over the world. I think people like Putin are mad about people escaping their grip and that's part of why America is widely hated by world leaders - we allowed rebellion against their tyranny without much consequence. That would be why China set up their own secret police stations here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1k19q0d/oc_see_how_three_billion_facebook_users_move/

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