The Sandernistas failed to get a condemnation of Israel for "occupying" the terrorists into the platform, but the new Dem platform does tilt further away from Israel as a compromise with a call for a "Palestinian" state.
As the anti-Israel J Street group put it, "The new language breaks with the party’s practice of framing its aim of establishing a Palestinian state solely in terms of Israel’s interests.”
This is though what the Sandernistas, some of whom were overt supporters of terrorism against Jews tried to get in there.
Introduced by James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, the change would have removed a reference to Jerusalem as “an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths” and stripped language critical of the United Nations and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.
The amendment made reference to the Gaza Strip: “We also call for an international effort to rebuild Gaza, which the U.N. warns could be uninhabitable by 2020 and where poverty and hopelessness undermine peace and security for both Palestinians and Israelis,” it read.
Gaza is properly read Hamas.
On June 23, Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota and Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, who were appointed to the drafting committee by Sanders and Clinton respectively, released a joint statement through the left-wing Jewish organization J Street playing down talk of a rift within the Democratic Party.
“Some have speculated about divisions within our party over the future of American foreign policy in the Middle East,” they wrote. “The truth is that when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we’re on the exact same page.”
Oh that much is true. Everything else is theater.