The Performance of “Progressive” Politics: Ro Khanna’s Interview Shows Congress Still Protects Israel’s War Machine
Jeremy Scahill from Drop Site News pressed Rep. Ro Khanna with the most basic question: Do Palestinians have the right to fight the soldiers occupying and besieging them? Khanna couldn’t say yes. Not even when Scahill narrowed it down to Israeli military bases. Not even when the question was strictly about soldiers.
But when Scahill flipped the question and asked whether Israel had the right to drop a single bomb on Gaza, Khanna didn’t hesitate. He said yes. He defended the bombing of a trapped civilian population that had already endured sixteen years of blockade, surveillance, and military…
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