No. of Recommendations: 6
If they had a Speaker, there already would have been floor votes on some very, very pointed resolutions of support of Israel and condemnations of Hamas - and well as emergency allocations of resources to help Israel fight back. Those measures would have been drafted in a way that overwhelming majorities in the House could vote for them, but members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus would have to oppose. A very, very painful split.This is a dangerous tragic situation. Maybe not the time for House votes designed to create political splits on this U.S. Foreign Policy issue.
Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at the New York Herald Tribune Forum for High Schools, New York, New York, March 23, 1957 "Foreign Policy in a Democracy"
"This leads directly to my second question, namely, what is the proper role of political parties and campaigns? There is a danger, I believe, of political debate playing either too large a part, or too small a part, in the foreign policy-making process... What about, you may ask, the traditional argument that politics should stop at the water's edge? To the extent that we should not "play politics" with our nation's security, or refrain from supporting the President for political reasons alone, this is true. Care must be taken to avoid bitter political splits that will make subsequent bi-partisan support impossible ' and responsible leaders must of course refrain from undermining by their headlines any delicate and difficult negotiations being conducted abroad."
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