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In an op-ed in the The New York Times<\/em> on Tuesday, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) condemned members of his own party for their approach to the \u201cIsraeli-Palestinian conflict,\u201d saying that \u201cDemocrats failed to meet the moment in 2024.\u201d The op-ed comes as Biden administration advisors who helped engineer Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza are regrouping in an effort to shape the party\u2019s approach to Palestine ahead of the next presidential election. <\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans were rightly fed up with Democratic hypocrisy and complicity in the gross violation of the values we profess to hold dear,\u201d Van Hollen wrote, admitting what the 2024 Democratic National Committee autopsy neglected to report. \u201cThat in turn, hurt our credibility with voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth Republican and Democratic administrations are responsible for where we are today,\u201d Van Hollen said, outlining a few of the crimes of Trump and Biden in allowing Israel\u2019s impunity. Van Hollen then suggested that Democrats \u201ccan \u2014 and should \u2014 be both \u2018pro Israeli\u2019 and \u2018pro-Palestinian.\u2019\u201d Despite saying that Democrats \u201ccannot accept the status quo,\u201d his op-ed goes on to encourage normalization efforts between Israel and states in the region, Saudi Arabia in particular \u2014 efforts that have aided Israel\u2019s impunity and cemented a repressive status quo in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Just as Van Hollen calls for Democrats to change their approach to Israel, Biden-era advisors are reconvening to plan the party\u2019s approach for the coming election cycle. In April, some Democrats restarted a foreign policy group, National Security Action, to formulate a foreign policy they say will help the party win in 2028, and to staff the next Democratic administration. <\/p>\n

National Security Action was founded in 2018 by Ben Rhodes, Obama\u2019s deputy national security advisor; and Jake Sullivan, advisor to Hillary Clinton, and later, national security advisor to Biden. The organization helped shape Democratic candidates\u2019 foreign policy messaging in the 2020 election, and then helped staff President Biden\u2019s national security team. They hope to do the same for the 2028 election cycle. <\/p>\n

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Maher Bitar, a Palestinian American who worked in senior defense intelligence and defense policy for the Biden administration, and now director of the group, has said that the National Security Action group will function as a \u201chub\u201d to work through the Democratic Party\u2019s approach to foreign policy for it \u201cto be ready for 2028 and beyond.\u201d He also said that the group would bring together Democrats with a variety of ideas: \u201cWe are not excluding anyone,\u201d he said. In practice, that has meant that any dissension and support for Palestine has been dwarfed by other voices as the party has moved further to the right over the past two decades. <\/p>\n

Bitar provided intelligence assessments and coordinated defense policy on Gaza during the genocide. <\/p>\n

As national security advisor to Biden, Jake Sullivan \u201chelped enable\u201d the \u201cslaughter\u201d of thousands of Palestinians, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Sullivan \u201ccoordinated the Biden administration\u2019s unwavering support for Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza\u201d by facilitating arms shipments to Israel, providing diplomatic cover, and maintaining that Israel\u2019s actions did not constitute a genocide. <\/p>\n

Sullivan, Bitar, and others who were part of the Biden administration are the former president\u2019s \u201cloyal lieutenants,\u201d journalist Julia Ioffe said, noting frustration among some in the party that they are still attempting to shape the Democratic Party\u2019s foreign policy. <\/p>\n

These \u201cBiden Bros\u201d include Antony Blinken, former Secretary of State under Biden who has been appointed to the board of directors of the Democratic Party-aligned Center for American Progress. During the Biden administration, Blinken certified to Congress that Israel was not blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, contrary to reports of human rights groups and State Department experts themselves. Blinken also oversaw the U.S. delegation to the UN that vetoed repeated Security Council resolutions calling for a ceasefire. And he continued to send Israel weapons, while approving $26 billion in aid to Israel over the course of the genocide. <\/p>\n

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