Alan M. Dershowitz
WSJ, Mar. 28, 2024
“We are here to say that you can no longer simply count on our vote just because Jews traditionally have voted Democratic. We are here to say you must earn our vote.”
Hours before his fatal fall on Tuesday, former Sen. Joseph Lieberman put his final touches on a statement we were writing together about Israel, the 2024 election and the future of the Democratic Party.
The statement was a warning to the Biden campaign that it can no longer count on pro-Israel Jewish voters to vote Democratic if it turns against Israel. Here is the statement, as edited by Joe at 2:35 p.m. the day before he died:
“We all want to see support for Israel in the U.S. remain bipartisan which is why we appreciated President Biden’s statements in the wake of the October 7 Hamas barbarisms. We believe that Israel must be allowed to achieve its legitimate goal of disabling Hamas from keeping its promise of repeating the massacres of October 7th.
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