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For those interested in maintaining the status quo – in the Middle East and in our own country – the demand for a cease fire is threatening, because it means negotiation, and negotiations might call the existing status quo into question.

The data shows that 66 percent of voters—and 80 percent of Democrats—want the president to call for a cease-fire. The longer he waits, the more voters will stay home next November.

What a letter from Biden’s field staff and organizers says about how Democrats see the Israel-Hamas war.

By pursuing its current war with Hamas, Israel is working against the goal of preserving the nation state of Israel.

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In an Israeli war that has been retrofitted onto a Holocaust template, it is obscene that a plea to stop further killing is now read as moral failure.

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A large demonstration, organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, came as Israel ramped up its military operations in Gaza.

I just don’t think it will bring us any closer to a better position, Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother, Vivian Silver, is a hostage, said. Vengeance is not something to build foundations on. It is not a strategy. How many dead Palestinians will be enough?