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Clinton baits Sanders over "destruction of Israel"

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And CNN notes that Sanders has responded by questioning Clinton's judgment on foreign policy.

"Sanders' campaign has responded to the critiques by questioning Clinton's judgment and noting her 2002 vote for the Iraq War, something that then-Sen. Barack Obama used against her during her failed 2008 campaign.

In related news, Clinton has hired a Jewish outreach director who has strong pro-Israel cred. And another story on the importance of the Israel lobby: Lobelog has a good story up that says Senator Marco Rubio has been parroting neoconservative Elliott Abrams's talking points on the Iranian hostage deal earlier this week. The piece notes that neocons are blasting the American deal when they praised Israel's deal for Gilad Shalit. Israel is always virtuous.

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Philip Weiss is a longtime writer and journalist in New York. He co-edits a website on Israel/Palestine, Mondoweiss.net, which he founded in order to foster the movement for greater fairness and justice for Palestinians in American foreign policy. He is currently working on a novel about the US in Australia during WW2.

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