Alexandra Ocasio Cortez is right to say that Israel has a right to defend itself and Palestinians have a right to survive in their own country.
She is wrong when she, and other Progressives like Bernie Sanders, seem more inclined to blame Israel for the recent violence between the Israelis and Palestinians.
There is enough blame to go around both sides.
Israel, in enabling its radical settlers, is trying to evict innocent Palestinians for the land they have lived on for decades claiming Jews owned those parcels before 1948.
Well if the right of return can be applied to former Jewish residents, why not Palestinian ones with the same claims.
The Israelis can not have it both ways.
The Palestinians, with Hamas launching thousands of rockets into Israel, deliberately brought the retaliation the Israelis rained on them.
No country is going to stand idly by and have rockets fired on them, no matter if the great majority of them are intercepted by the Israelis Iron Dome.
Hamas, of course, counted on that, hoping targeted Israeli airstrikes would accidentally kill innocent children who were stuck on the congested Gaza streets or in buildings Hamas had bases in.
People need to remember that there is one side that warns civilians to get out of the way before the bombs come down. That is the Israelis.
Unfortunately, both the Palestinians and Israelis are being led by individuals and political parties that count on violence and division. They also count on the status quo leadership remaining in power.
This recent conflict benefits the very same leaders that need to retire.
And one potential indirect causality can be the Democratic Party in this country. Israel's corrupt leader, Benjamin Netahanyu, a fervent Trumpist and Republican supporter seems to know this and that is probably a reason why he has been hostile to Democrat Biden's cease-fire requests.
And foreign policy novices like AOC and others (Sanders should know better) are making this happen with their false "it's all the Israelis fault" position.
They need to grow up, learn the whole history of the conflict from the end of World War One to the present, and take an even-handed approach to the situation.
Only doing that will enable the United States to resume its honest broker status in the region.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/us/politics/democrats-israel-palestinians.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/19/liberal-dems-stop-israel-arms-sale-489578
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/13/netanyahu-hamas-political-gain/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-palestinians-sheikh-jarrah-eviction-east-jerusalem-explained/
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