Already in the 1980s, the senator criticized Israel, but in the current primaries it has crossed the path of radicalization • Sanders not unusual in the liberal landscape • Commentary

In the 1972 presidential election campaign, the Democratic nominee, South Dakota senator George McGuvern, reflected clear liberal positions, centered on the demand to withdraw immediately from Vietnam. Later, years after he was unconditionally defeated by President Nixon, McGovern strongly criticized Israel, especially in connection with the Palestinian issue. However, during the White House race, the South Dakota senator marketed himself as an avid and enthusiastic friend of Israel, and, among other things, called on the Nixon administration - in its May 29, 1972 speech - to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the US embassy to it.

Forty-eight years later, another senior Democratic candidate, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, came to the front of the stage, which in many ways constitutes a near-perfect transcript of the 1972 candidate. Like McGovern, Sanders manages to haunt hordes of young people who follow me through his revolutionary and anti-establishment vision. However, in contrast to McGovern's pattern of real-time behavior, when he made every effort to conceal his nonchalant attitude toward Israel under the coating of seemingly overwhelming sympathy, Sanders is now acting in a completely opposite direction.

Although as late as the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Vermont senator criticized Israel for a wide range of issues and complexities, he surpassed, in the current election campaign, a path of greater radicalization (which also escalated his 2016 model, when he ran in the primaries for Democratic ticket to Hillary Clinton and won). Against this trend of exacerbation of the discourse, which brings Sanders very close to the militant and anti-Semitic margins of the Democratic Party, represented in the House of Representatives by Rashidah Talayev and Ilhan Omar, there is no escaping the question of whether the political party in the bipartisan consensus of Special in the collective consciousness and American ethos?

After all, since Israel, about six decades ago, has become a strong partner and an important strategic asset for the United States, the Israel Loyalty Statement has been an integral part of every personality's toolbox, regardless of its party affiliation, which has turned its name into the Oval Office. The dam was breached, and the fact that a senior Democratic contender does not hesitate (and not for the first time) to be prime minister and declare himself a "racist reactionary", and even hint at his intention - if he is elected president - to return the US embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, indicates that a thousand witnesses have fallen In the relationship between a prominent stream in the democratic camp and Israel, it must be seen its extraction and The dangerous consequence of the process of moving away from the liberal wing of the Israeli alliance (and political center), whose roots are still rooted in the distant 1980s, and which has become increasingly entrenched in recent years into the raging rhetoric of Jermyn Corbin's creator, a kind of role model Sanders, and not just in the context of Israel.

At the same time, in recent decades, the Republican movement has become the backbone of special relations and anchor of unabated support in Israel, indicating that George Bush Jr.'s eight years in the White House will not be talked about by Donald Trump's three-year presidency. At the same time, the Democratic Party is undergoing a process of marginalization, with Sanders being the loudest and most outspoken mark of the overtly overturned line to Israel and its value and strategic partnership, but certainly not an exception in the current liberal landscape.

Against this background, one must look into reality and recognize that the underground currents, which have permeated a long time beneath the surface, have now burst full force into the core of the political system, threatening to severely damage the broad infrastructure that has provided Israel with a solid safety net for decades. Every challenge. The question of whether this tsunami is going to drown the Democratic mainstream representatives (such as Michael Bloomberg and Joe Biden) in the immediate future, dragging the whole party against him by dragging the entire party towards an apocalypse whose end is of course a separate issue for the future soon.