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The two most powerful Democrats in Congress have apparently discovered that the best response to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's disgusting lies on Israel and Gaza is to respond to something else.
Mamdani doubled down Thursday on his October 7 statement accusing Israel of carrying out a "genocide" in Gaza, while Senate Minority Leader Chuck "Kapo" Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have so far declined to weigh in on the controversy.
Mamdani’s post on Wednesday briefly acknowledged Hamas’ October 7 blitz against Israel, which left more than 1,100 Israelis dead and more than 250 others captured and held hostage by the terrorist organization. He then devoted most of his statement to condemning Israel for its conduct in Gaza over the past three years.
"The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians — including more than 21,000 children," Mamdani said on X, leaving out the October 7th massacre of Israelis, for some reason. "Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed."
"That suffering has intensified with every [retaliatory] Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing," he said. "Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them — all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes."
Of course, this human piece of digestive waste had nothing to say of the unarmed Israelis who were slaughtered by the jihadists. He had no problem discussing the city's grief and the make-believe war crimes in Gaza, however. Never once did this disgusting excuse for a man mention the city's one million Jewish residents.
That omission became even more conspicuous when Rep. Dan Goldman, a fellow New York Democrat, decided that someone in his party should actually object. Finally, Goldman got his Hebrew on.
"This is a reprehensible statement on the anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack by a Palestinian terrorist organization against innocent Israelis," Goldman said on X. "In the guise of ‘grieving’ with those mourning that day, Mayor Mamdani asserts as fact hotly disputed allegations that he knows full well will offend and further upset those same people he pretends to grieve with."
Goldman's response stands in sharp contrast to the apparent strategy adopted by Schumer and Jeffries: say something about October 7, just not anything that requires confronting Mamdani directly.
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries responded to requests for comment on Mamdani's remarks. Both flaming cowards issued their own statements commemorating the October 7 attack on Wednesday.
Schumer, who is sort of Jewish, described the attack as the "single deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust." His support for Israel has increasingly become a problem for some Senate Democrats, who have moved further toward opposing American arms shipments to Israel after three years of war in Gaza. Perhaps he was trying to appease the Party by not challenging Mamdani's bile.
"Today, we reaffirm our commitment to the security of the Israeli people, to the aid and wellbeing of the Palestinian people and the recovery of the devastation in Gaza that the ensuing conflict brought, and to doubling down on efforts for a lasting peace resulting in two states where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in equal measures of peace, security, dignity, and mutual recognition," Schumer said, mostly through his nostrils.
Jeffries struck a position closer to the Democratic Party's left flank while acknowledging that "we are reminded of the painful reality that the Jewish people are in a constant struggle for survival, as has been the case for thousands of years." [But we really don't care.]
"Throughout the past three years, considerable suffering has plagued the Middle East. The horrific death of Palestinian civilians, destruction of civil society and devastation in Gaza is reprehensible and can never be allowed to happen again," Jeffries said, leaving off the Jewish murders that happen on a regular basis in Israel.
"In order to end the vicious cycle of bloodshed, for the good of the Israeli and Palestinian people, American policy in the region must change dramatically," he continued. "We must commit to the creation of an independent Palestinian state to provide dignity, respect and self-determination for the Palestinian people."
For Democrats watching from the sidelines, the situation presents a remarkably convenient arrangement. Mamdani can denounce Israel, Goldman can denounce Mamdani, and Schumer and Jeffries can issue carefully calibrated statements about peace without having to answer the increasingly awkward question of whether they agree with the Democratic mayor of America's largest city.
That omission became even more conspicuous when Rep. Dan Goldman, a fellow New York Democrat, decided that someone in his party should actually object. Finally, Goldman got his Hebrew on.
"This is a reprehensible statement on the anniversary of the horrific terrorist attack by a Palestinian terrorist organization against innocent Israelis," Goldman said on X. "In the guise of ‘grieving’ with those mourning that day, Mayor Mamdani asserts as fact hotly disputed allegations that he knows full well will offend and further upset those same people he pretends to grieve with."
Goldman's response stands in sharp contrast to the apparent strategy adopted by Schumer and Jeffries: say something about October 7, just not anything that requires confronting Mamdani directly.
Neither Schumer nor Jeffries responded to requests for comment on Mamdani's remarks. Both flaming cowards issued their own statements commemorating the October 7 attack on Wednesday.
Schumer, who is sort of Jewish, described the attack as the "single deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust." His support for Israel has increasingly become a problem for some Senate Democrats, who have moved further toward opposing American arms shipments to Israel after three years of war in Gaza. Perhaps he was trying to appease the Party by not challenging Mamdani's bile.
"Today, we reaffirm our commitment to the security of the Israeli people, to the aid and wellbeing of the Palestinian people and the recovery of the devastation in Gaza that the ensuing conflict brought, and to doubling down on efforts for a lasting peace resulting in two states where Israelis and Palestinians can live side by side in equal measures of peace, security, dignity, and mutual recognition," Schumer said, mostly through his nostrils.
Jeffries struck a position closer to the Democratic Party's left flank while acknowledging that "we are reminded of the painful reality that the Jewish people are in a constant struggle for survival, as has been the case for thousands of years." [But we really don't care.]
"Throughout the past three years, considerable suffering has plagued the Middle East. The horrific death of Palestinian civilians, destruction of civil society and devastation in Gaza is reprehensible and can never be allowed to happen again," Jeffries said, leaving off the Jewish murders that happen on a regular basis in Israel.
"In order to end the vicious cycle of bloodshed, for the good of the Israeli and Palestinian people, American policy in the region must change dramatically," he continued. "We must commit to the creation of an independent Palestinian state to provide dignity, respect and self-determination for the Palestinian people."
For Democrats watching from the sidelines, the situation presents a remarkably convenient arrangement. Mamdani can denounce Israel, Goldman can denounce Mamdani, and Schumer and Jeffries can issue carefully calibrated statements about peace without having to answer the increasingly awkward question of whether they agree with the Democratic mayor of America's largest city.
What a bunch of scumcrumpets.
In New York politics, apparently, silence is not merely golden. It is also remarkably well-positioned for reelection.
In New York politics, apparently, silence is not merely golden. It is also remarkably well-positioned for reelection.
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