The top U.S. military commander in
the Middle East recommended ending the bombing campaign around the
Strait of Hormuz after concluding it reached the limits of its
effectiveness, a recommendation that helped shape President Donald
Trump's decision to pause strikes against Iran, Axios reported Sunday.
Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S.
Central Command, advised Pentagon leaders, the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
and the White House last week that two weeks of sustained airstrikes had
weakened Iran's ability to threaten commercial shipping through the
strategic waterway, multiple sources familiar with the discussions said.
His assessment, combined with advice
from other senior military officials, influenced Trump's decision Friday
to suspend strikes targeting Iranian positions along Iran's southern
coast and around the Strait of Hormuz.
The move marked the first pause in
nearly two weeks of continuous military operations and reflected growing
recognition among military commanders and civilian advisers that
additional airstrikes would produce diminishing returns without a
broader escalation of the conflict.
Trump made the decision following a
meeting Friday with senior national security advisers and military
officials, who presented updated operational plans for the day's
strikes.
According to sources familiar with
the deliberations, the president had been leaning toward expanding
combat operations earlier in the week, but began reconsidering that
approach Thursday evening before formally deciding to halt the strikes.
Cooper told administration
officials that most of the military's designated targets in the Strait
of Hormuz region had already been struck, leaving relatively few
remaining objectives.
According to the sources, the
admiral said the U.S. could return to major combat operations to destroy
roughly 20% of targets originally identified during Operation Epic Fury
that were not attacked during the initial campaign.
However, absent a decision to
significantly escalate military operations, Cooper argued there was
little value in continuing the limited bombing campaign that had been
underway.
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a CENTCOM spokesman, declined to comment on Cooper's recommendations.
The pause in strikes also came as military leaders warned about broader operational challenges.
According to the sources, Air Force
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, privately
cautioned War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump that dwindling supplies
of air-defense interceptors could reduce the military's ability to
defend U.S. forces and regional allies if the conflict intensified.
A spokesman for the chairman declined to comment on "confidential military advice the chairman provides the president."
While military operations have slowed, diplomatic efforts continue, Axios reported.
Iran and Oman remain engaged in
negotiations aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz under an
arrangement intended to ensure that commercial vessels can transit the
shipping lane without coming under attack.
It remains unclear whether any
agreement negotiated between Tehran and Muscat would satisfy the Trump
administration. If negotiations fail or Washington rejects the proposed
terms, the fighting could resume.
For now, officials described the
military situation as a "quiet for quiet" arrangement, with both sides
refraining from launching new attacks while diplomatic contacts
continue.
Meanwhile,
the U.S. and the U.K. are continuing discussions on convening an
international conference later this week to establish a multinational
coalition focused on protecting commercial shipping and clearing naval
mines from the Strait of Hormuz.
Officials have not announced a date for the meeting.
Brian Freeman, a Newsmax writer based
in Israel, has more than three decades writing and editing about
culture and politics for newspapers, online and television.
made it clear in response to a list of questions from Fox News' Shannon
Bream. Bream went through the list, asking for a "true/false" response
from Romer.
"Abolish the Senate?" she asked. "True," Romer replied.
"Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them," Bream queried. "Yep," Romer said.
"Abolish ICE?" Bream inquired. Romer was emphatic, "Absolutely!"
"Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone in the U.S. illegally?" Bream asked. "As a long-term plan, yep," Romer replied.
"Defund
the Pentagon?" Bream said. "Absolutely!" Romer replied, with a laugh,
as though to question how Bream could even ask that.
Bream asked, "Abolish prisons, at least in large part?" Romer said, as part of the "long-term program."
"Government or public ownership of most large corporations?" Bream asked. "Yeah, absolutely," Romer answered.
Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (LA-04)
spoke for many Americans with a simple response: This is the contrast
between "common sense" and what Democrats are now embracing, which is
"CRAZY."
Others also called it out plainly on X.
In a word, yes.
The
only question is whether we will stand against it. Democrats are
enabling this. Every Republican running should be putting this in an ad,
explaining what Democrats have been countenancing, exactly as Johnson
phrased it: common sense vs. crazy. People may have legitimate policy
differences on things, but Americans will reject this — if they know
this is on the table.
Apparently, liberals only believe athletes—basketball players in particular—should speak their minds when they're parroting the approved progressive script.
He then promptly windmill dunked on the half-pint-sized Commie for
"cosplaying" as somebody in a position of authority for demanding the
PM's arrest.
"People cosplaying as things they don’t have the
authority, the talent, or the track record to actually be. Just for
content," he said. "A mayor playing president."
Kuzma then listed off several other examples of people in this digital age pretending to be things they are not.
"We're raising a generation that (learns) the reward isn’t in doing the thing, it’s in looking like you did the thing.
The clip is the career. The pose is the product. The soundbite is the
substitute for a life’s work," he concluded. "Don't fall for
distractions."
What
makes this pretty interesting is the fact that he's not calling out
Mamdani
for being the vile, terror-adjacent, Communist that he clearly
is. No, he's calling this guy out as a clown who thinks he's far more
important in his own mind. And his supporters for lacking the
intelligence not to be distracted by the shiny, candy-like object.
And man, did they dislike the assertion.
Within hours, the same
crowd that once treated “shut up and dribble” as a right-wing heresy
was gleefully throwing the phrase—and far worse—right back at Kuzma.
"You
cosplaying as an intellectual. I would tell you to shut up and dribble,
but we know you can barely do that," one person with their little "Free
Palestine" bio fired back.
"And
you're cosplaying as a basketball player," another, with he/him
pronouns, a picture to show they were cosplaying as a woman, and a
mention of being a "lifer" over a South Korean girl group in their
profile, said.
To his credit, Kuzma responded to a bunch of the
attacks thrown his way, even telling someone who disliked the current
administration that they could "move to a different country."
It's
funny when you realize Kuzma won an NBA championship ring alongside his
teammate LeBron James,
who actually served as the impetus for the
entire "shut up and dribble" mantra.
You know, the guy who called
President Trump a “bum,” repeatedly slammed him over race and politics,
backed Black Lives Matter, and sided with the Chinese Communist Party by
blasting Daryl Morey as “misinformed” for supporting Hong Kong
protesters while never once mentioning the Uyghur concentration camps in
China that the NBA was helping to fund.
Yeah, LeBum. We didn't forget about that.
Let's see how much
heat Kuzma gets for daring to speak out on Mamdani, the mayor of the
city that just won the NBA championship. LeBron is allowed to spout off
at the mouth whenever he feels like it. Enes Kanter Freedom claims he
was blackballed by the league for speaking his thoughts.
Kuzma,
who now plays with the Milwaukee Bucks, is no James when it comes to
talent. But being a little more productive, versatile, and successful
overall than Kanter and most of the league means he can't exactly be
ignored on the topic.
Everybody who wants to gobble popcorn while watching exciting POTUS
primary races in 2028 is going to be disappointed, at least in terms of
the final outcome. We know how this story ends, but what leads up to it
may be hilarious, particularly on the Democrat side. Every weirdo,
loser, and mutation in their party intends to try to get the nod,
knowing that the fix is already in; it’s just going to be a chance for
folks like Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) and Pete
Buttigieg to try to raise their profiles or maybe get picked to be VP.
Neither of those two will. But right now, it’s obvious who is going to
go head-to-head against each other in the general election. You can deny
it, you can argue it, you can cope all you want, but barring some
unforeseen turn of events, we know how this is going to play out.
It’s going to be JD versus Kamala, and that’s just the way it is.
Well,
that’s not technically correct. On the Republican side, the guy who’s
going to be nominated is the guy who Trump says is going to be
nominated, and right now that’s Vice President JD Vance. People are
fantasizing that Secretary of State Marco Rubio
is going to jump in and
fight the veep for the top of the ticket, but that’s crazy talk. And the
least crazy guy involved is Marco Rubio himself, who has made a
magnificent and fantastic 180° turnaround since his unfortunate
dalliance with amnesty under the influence of a bunch of Bushie loser
Senate colleagues a decade ago that nearly sank his political future. He
knows that Donald Trump is going to pick the next nominee, and Donald
Trump is already sending up smoke signals that it's going to be JD.
Marco is young. He has time. And he has no political death wish. He has
stepped on the Donald Trump land mine before, and he does not want to be
blown to little bits. But you can be sure that if JD stumbles, Marco
Rubio will be right there to pick up the ball and run it in for the big
win.
Will JD Vance stumble? He's getting a lot of heat from some
people on the Republican side, particularly those who think that he is
insufficiently committed to destroying our enemies and protecting
Israel. It’s annoying. Never-Trump has-been Brett Stephens, whose
self-seriousness is inversely proportional to how seriously he should be
taken, said, “Vance is MAGA at its absolute worst. Able to still sound
reasonable while defending the indefensible.” Sounds like a rave review.
Others cited his role in the Senate to essentially blame him for
Capitol Hill dysfunction. Come on. Vance got grief for referring to the
organized haters as an op; the organized haters of the op were outraged
he called their transparent op an op.
JD terrifies those with the fantasy of returning to the good old days
of submissive GOP-managed decline; they know he’ll carry the Trump
message forward – which is a selling point. JD certainly doesn’t have
the same view of war as a lot of traditional Republicans do, no doubt,
in part, because, unlike most of them, he actually went and fought in
one. He has seen firsthand the failure of America’s foreign policy
establishment, and if he’s a little bit gun-shy about gunboat diplomacy,
he’s got good reason to be. After all, his homeland in Appalachia has
traditionally been one of America’s premier fields for growing crops of
cannon fodder. The consequences of the hawks’ prerogatives fall on
people like JD Vance. Though a fellow son of that region and a veteran, I
tend to be a little more on the “Bomb the bastards back into the Stone
Age” side. Still, JD has earned his right to be skeptical about the
overextension of American military power.
Then there’s Israel, and
while many of the people who are critical of him are very much aligned
with me—my objection to Israel is that we’re not giving the Jewish state
enough money and they’re not killing enough terrorists—they are
misguided. JD Vance is not a groyper. If you actually listen to what he
says instead of watching carefully curated podcast clips, you’ll see
that what he’s saying is true. The Venn diagram representing the
interests of the United States and Israel is not a circle. Israel has
its interests, and we have ours, and there’s nothing wrong with saying
that. It’s obvious, and it’s important that we acknowledge this reality.
Israel has a terrible image problem in the United States, partially
because many Americans are stupid and weak, and because Democrats are
cowardly and weak. The proper answer to terrorists is to kill them all
and lay waste to their homes. That’s aesthetically displeasing to many
people. Israel has chosen being aesthetically displeasing to being
genocided out of existence by semi-human seventh-century barbarians, and
a lot of fools hold that against it.
JD Vance does not hold that against Israel. He simply points out,
correctly, that sometimes what Israel needs to do conflicts with what
the United States needs to do, and a president of the United States
should do what the United States needs to do. As for Iran, if you think
he somehow believed that the Iranians were going to completely change
who they are and become nice guys, I really can’t help you. This guy is a
lawyer. He knows a little something about negotiating. And when you’re
negotiating, you rarely describe your obnoxious opponent in the harshest
possible terms. You talk nice about them. That’s how negotiations
work.
Now, he may not choose to run for president in 2028. He’s
got a very young family, including a newborn. It’s not clear his wife
loves being in the limelight. She’s an incredibly smart woman; spend
five minutes with her, and you’ll see. JD is even younger than Rubio.
He’s got time. The bottom line is he may choose not to run. If he does
choose to run, right now he’s got Trump’s endorsement, which means he’s
the nominee. Certainly, he could lose Trump’s endorsement—Trump is
notorious for spectacular breakups with former allies—but if you’ve got
chips, put them down on JD.
Maybe there will be competition. There
are rumblings about Ted Cruz jumping in, but I don’t think Ted Cruz is
going to do that because Ted Cruz is smart
and he doesn’t want to be
humiliated by being utterly destroyed in the primary. There will
probably be some dorky Never Trump geebos going for it, like Mike Pence,
which would be hilarious. The Ned Flanders of American politics would
be humiliated, but for Pence, you get the vibe that that might be a plus
for him.
Look, the GOP nominee in 2028 is going to be JD Vance about 80
percent of the time, so everybody needs to get their feelz under control
and get ready to back him. Maybe he’s not 100 percent with you, but the
alternative is 0 percent with you. Get over your panty twist, people.
And
the Democrat nominee is going to be Kamala Harris. That’s just the way
it’s going to be, because the Democrat Party’s biggest constituency is
not failson and disappointment daughter, Democrat Socialists, but black
women. Kamala is a black woman; ergo, she’s going to get nominated.
You’re not going to get the Democrats to nominate someone who’s not a
black woman. We’re seeing what happens when you do that in Texas. That
blasphemous imp James Talarico is just not winning over black voters
after beating Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX-30)
One of the
benefits of Kamala is that she’s also DSA-friendly; she’s a communist
and was recently sucking up to the Hamas wing. The socialists will
swallow hard and take her. A bunch of others will run, and they’ll lose.
There’s some talk about AOC, but she’s going to take noted burger chef
Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat. AOC’s sell-by date is fast approaching
anyway. Believe it or not, she’s not left enough for the socialists, and
here’s a hard truth some people don’t want to hear: she’s getting
hefty. Part of the attraction of AOC was that she was a cute young
woman. Remember, they literally auditioned her for the job, and key to
that was that she was attractive. Between losing her hotness and the
fact that every time she opens her mouth, she says something stupid—like
how the Senate was constituted to enshrine Jim Crow about a century
before Jim Crow—this clownette peaks at junior senator from the Empire
State.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s out there, but how are you going to
explain to the black women of the Democrat Party that they need to move
aside for a guy so white that Sheldon Whitehouse is recruiting him for
his beach club? California’s Patrick Bateman has destroyed the Golden
State, and that’s a problem too. Kamala, having done nothing in her
entire career except satisfy Willie Brown, ironically leaves her better
positioned than the current California governor, who has to explain
high-speed rail to nowhere, endless taxes, and sidewalks piled high with
hobo dung.
The others aren’t going anywhere either. Nobody wants
JB Pritzker, the governor of failed state Illinois—why would anyone want
an obese version of Gavin Newsom? Pete Buttigieg is currently polling
at 0 percent among black Democratic primary voters. Democrat Rep. Ro
Khanna (CA-17) is Ro Khanna. And there are a bunch of other little
pipsqueaks out there who are equally hopeless, but might go for it to
pump up their profiles. No, it’s going to be Kamala because it can only
be Kamala.
So, that’s it. Now, we may have some fun watching the
upstarts in the primary make fools of themselves. I’d love to see
Trump’s tweets should Mike Pence decide to try to leverage his
leadership of the GOP’s ED caucus into the nomination. And I yearn to
see the Democrats hamstring themselves by going left, left, left, left
in the primary only for Kamala to have to explain in the general why she
has changed her mind from her primary campaign position that we should
reopen the border and allow anyone from the Third World into America to
get gender-affirming care on the taxpayers’ dime.
Oh, and who’s going to win the fight between JD and Kamala? That’s another column entirely, but for reasons I’ve explained before, I like our odds.
Former CBS News investigative reporter Catherine
Herridge,
who also worked with Fox News, reviewed a batch of documents
declassified by the Trump administration concerning Chinese election interference. President Trump spoke extensively about the vulnerabilities of our election system in a primetime address on July 16.
The president outlined how Beijing has compromised the voter data of
around 220 million Americans, paid U.S. reporters to spread anti-Trump
propaganda, and cited numerous intelligence officials who kept the
extent of the Chinese election meddling operation from him. Herridge
appeared on NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich Tonight on July 25 to provide an
update on this story, revealing that she might have stumbled upon proof
that the Bidens were blackmailed by the Chinese. All of the documents
relate to information that would’ve been included in Joe Biden’s daily
briefing:
“What we saw in the release of the records,
which I'm afraid I think in the media or legacy media there was kind of
a willful blindness. They didn't want to look at the records. All you
had to do was spend a couple of hours. I found these records which are
talking about blackmail by China. It was for President Biden's daily
brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his
family”
Remember when Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunter
Biden, alluded to the possibility during the 2020 election? He turned
over all documents related to this investigation, by the way; the FBI
had them for years.
A Venezuelan man is being charged after allegedly killing an
82-year-old woman by backing over her with an SUV outside of a grocery
store in Panama City Beach, Florida.
According to Fox News, Carlos Suarez-Contreras, 26 years
old,
struck Deborah Murphy with a Toyota 4Runner while she was walking
in the crosswalk in a Publix parking lot. Suarez-Contreras was
reportedly in the United States illegally at the time of the incident on
May 17th, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
After she fell to the ground, the vehicle continued backing up, the report read.
Murphy was then taken to a nearby hospital where she died from her injuries, according to Fox News.
Police records showed that Luis Sanabria, 29 years old, who had an
expired visa, was in the passenger seat of the vehicle when the SUV
struck Murphy.
Sanabria allegedly confirmed that Suarez-Contreras “was operating the
vehicle at the time of the crash,” he told law enforcement at the scene
in May.
The two Venezuelan nationals were issued U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) detainers and booked into the Bay County Sheriff’s
Office Jail following the incident, according to court records.
Meanwhile, Suarez-Contreras pleaded not guilty to the charge of driving with a canceled Georgia license and causing a death.
“We’re determined to find justice and see Suarez-Contreras held
accountable for his reckless actions,” Murphy’s daughters, Beth Schulz
and Amy Edge, told Fox News. “She touched so many lives as an amazing friend, teacher, mother and grandmother.”
Suarez-Contreras is scheduled to be arraigned on August 17th at the Bay County Courthouse in Panama City Florida, Fox News reported.
New Jersey quietly admitted that roughly 6,600 people who said they were
not U.S. citizens were added to the state’s voter rolls because of a
Motor Vehicle Commission software error. That is not a minor clerical
hiccup. It is a failure of a system we are told to trust with our
elections. If you care about free and fair votes, you should be paying
attention.
What New Jersey says happened
Governor Mikie Sherrill called
it “a serious software error” in the Motor Vehicle System and said the
problem affected registrations captured between June 2023 and June 2024.
The governor’s office says the state found about 6,600 registrations
tied to people who identified as noncitizens and that fewer than 400 of
those people later cast ballots. The administration ordered removals,
launched an independent review, and said it would replace the vendor
running the system.
Why this matters for election integrity
Automatic
voter registration at the MVC can be a good thing when it works. When
it doesn’t, it creates a real risk: even a few hundred disputed ballots
could matter in a tight race. Election‑integrity advocates rightly
warned for years that data systems and verification steps must be
airtight. Now we have a public example of what can go wrong — and of how
slow and messy the fixes can be.
Federal probe, vendor denials, and the blame game
The
Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, led by Assistant Attorney
General Harmeet Dhillon, has opened an inquiry and demanded records.
Homeland Security under Secretary Markwayne Mullin has its own larger
flags from cross‑state checks. Meanwhile the vendor IDEMIA says its
software behaved as designed and insists the state is responsible for
verification. In plain English: everyone points fingers and the public
ends up holding the bill for shoddy systems and secrecy.
Fixes we should demand now
Start
with an independent technical audit that is public and granular — not
another press release with talking points. Replace or fix vendors that
can’t prove their code and logs. Strengthen proof‑of‑citizenship checks
at registration and consider measures like the SAVE America Act to
tighten federal standards for citizen verification. And if any ballots
were knowingly cast by ineligible voters, there should be clear legal
follow‑through. Trust in elections isn’t automatic; it’s earned, and
right now New Jersey owes voters a lot more than an apology.
Schools are supposed to teach math, reading, and how to be a decent
citizen — not to audition for a sci‑fi movie. Yet a rural New York
district quietly agreed to pilot a lifelike humanoid robot and an AI
tutor in its high school classrooms this fall. Parents, teachers, and
tribal leaders rightly pushed back, and the district has now paused the
program. This debate is exactly the kind we need: clear answers before
creepy technology becomes routine in our children’s schools.
What the district proposed — and why people freaked out
The
Salamanca City Central School District announced a pilot using
Realbotix’s Optio AI tutor and a seated M‑Series humanoid robot —
nicknamed “Sally” in coverage — to support STEM and AI classes.
Realbotix said the tools would “complement, not replace, teachers” and
that the M‑Series had been trained on the district curriculum. Reported
costs for the pilot were roughly $57,000–$58,000 for the robot and
deployment. That’s a lot of money to spend on something that looks like
it should have a role in an adult‑only film festival.
Privacy, pedagogy and painful optics
Teachers
and parents raised three simple, practical questions: Will the robot
record students? Who owns or gets access to the data? And who is
accountable when something goes wrong? Lacey Pihlblad, president of the
Salamanca Teachers’ Association, put it plainly: “We’re very concerned
about the security of the software… whether or not the data will be
stored, how it will be gathered, are the recording capabilities.” The
New York State Education Department’s assistant commissioner JP O’Hare
warned that technology “should not replace the human judgment or
accountability essential to a safe and effective learning environment.”
Those are not partisan talking points; they’re common‑sense safeguards.
Cultural sensitivity matters
There’s
also an ugly optics problem. Salamanca sits on the Allegany Territory
of the Seneca Nation,
and tribal leaders and community members called
the rollout tone‑deaf — especially given the painful history of using
outsiders’ experiments on Native communities. Add the fact that
Realbotix’s corporate history includes ties to companies known for
highly realistic companion and adult‑oriented dolls, and you can see why
locals describe the idea as “creepy.” The company says the education
unit is separate and that the system is closed, but vague corporate
reorganizations and PR reassurances don’t cut it when kids’ privacy and
dignity are on the line.
What should happen next — and what conservatives should demand
The
district did the right thing by pausing the pilot while it negotiates
“enhanced student data privacy agreements” and engages stakeholders. But
a pause is not a permanent fix. Parents and local leaders should insist
on four things before any robot ever steps foot in a classroom: (1)
full public release of procurement and data‑privacy contracts; (2)
independent technical audits proving no offsite recording, facial
recognition, or remote access without explicit parental consent; (3)
measurable learning outcomes overseen by independent educators, not
sales teams; and (4) documented consultation with the Seneca Nation and
affected families. This is about parental control, local accountability,
and protecting children from untested tech experiments — conservative
principles all.
Let’s be clear: innovation can help education, but
it needs to be transparent, local, and accountable. If a company wants
to train a robot on school curricula and hand it to teenagers, they
should be ready to open their code, contracts, and servers to public
inspection. Until then, keep the humanoids on stage and out of our
classrooms. Kids deserve teachers, not tech demos dressed in silicone.
Political analyst Patrick Allocco said Jewish Democratic voters are
increasingly feeling politically isolated as divisions within the
Democratic Party over Israel deepen following a House vote to cut U.S.
military spending for Israel.
Speaking on Newsmax TV's "America Right Now," Allocco described the
vote on July 15 by more than 100 House Democrats to block billions of
dollars in military aid to Israel — an ultimately unsuccessful effort
that highlighted the growing divisions in their party on the issue — as
part of a broader political shift that has accelerated since Hamas' Oct.
7, 2023, attack on Israel.
"What we're watching right now is a historical moment unfold," Allocco said.
"Many Jewish Democrats, this has become a story of abandonment,
betrayal in some communities, and almost political homelessness."
Allocco said Jewish voters have long formed one of the Democratic
Party's most reliable constituencies, tracing that relationship back to
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal during the Great Depression.
He said many Jewish Americans were drawn to Roosevelt's agenda
because of its support for urban immigrants, religious pluralism, and
organized labor, helping forge a political alliance that endured for
generations.
"These are voters who helped build one of the Democratic Party's most enduring coalitions," Allocco said. "It goes back to FDR."
He argued that recent developments represent a dramatic departure
from that history, saying some Jewish Democrats increasingly view the
party's posture toward Israel as inconsistent with their expectations.
"For the first time you're seeing something that is just completely
anathema to them — the abandonment of the party," Allocco said.
He linked the shift to the aftermath of Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on
Israel, which killed about 1,200 people and sparked Israel's military
campaign in Gaza. The conflict has intensified debate within the
Democratic Party, where progressive lawmakers have become increasingly
critical of Israel's military operations and U.S. military assistance,
citing concerns about civilian casualties and the humanitarian situation
in Gaza.
Allocco pointed to public opinion research as evidence that Democratic attitudes toward Israel have changed in recent years.
"I think some of the research is showing us, if you look at Pew
Research, you can see an incredible transformation over the last few
years on Democrats' view of Israel," he said.
The House vote underscored continuing divisions in Congress over U.S.
policy toward Israel, an issue that has grown increasingly contentious
as the war in Gaza has continued.
The debate has exposed ideological differences within the Democratic
caucus, with some lawmakers advocating reductions or conditions on
military aid to Israel while others argue continued support remains
essential to Israel's security and longstanding U.S. foreign policy.
Allocco said those divisions could have lasting political
consequences by reshaping one of the Democratic Party's most dependable
voting blocs.
