This is an unusual argument for a Democratic platform committee, largely because it is logically and morally perverse. Chastisement there will be at the Democratic platform committee. The Sanders appointees wish to bend the Democratic platform to encourage such diminishment unless Israel redeems itself by liberating Palestine. Which is why two of Sanders’ appointments to the 15-member platform committee are so stunning. weaken — the relationship between the Democratic Party and Israel, which has been close and supportive since Harry Truman recognized the world’s only Jewish state when it declared independence in May 1948.

Source: National Post June 03, 2016 15:56 UTC