{"id":1481416,"date":"2024-08-03T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1481416"},"modified":"2024-08-03T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T19:40:00","slug":"josh-shapiro-downplays-idf-volunteerism-as-service-project-as-wikipedia-scrubs-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/josh-shapiro-downplays-idf-volunteerism-as-service-project-as-wikipedia-scrubs-evidence\/1481416\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Shapiro Downplays IDF Volunteerism As ‘Service Project’ As Wikipedia Scrubs Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Shapiro Downplays IDF Volunteerism As ‘Service Project’ As Wikipedia Scrubs Evidence<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Matt Margolis via PJ Media<\/a> (emphasis ours),<\/em><\/p>\n

AP Photo\/Matt Rourke<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

It seems inevitable that Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) is going to be chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assuming this is correct, the goal of selecting Shapiro is to put Pennsylvania back in play for the Democratic ticket<\/strong>\u2014if not completely out of play for Donald Trump. But, Shapiro’s Jewish heritage and pro-Israel positions are likely to cause a real problem with the far left. Shapiro is one of the only candidates that is outwardly auditioning to be Kamala’s running mate, and sadly, he’s already trying to memory-hole his support of Israel.<\/p>\n

First is the way he’s distancing himself from his past position that peace “will never come” to the Middle East and that a two-state solution wasn’t likely to succeed.<\/p>\n

In the opinion article, titled \u201cPeace not possible,\u201d Shapiro, then a 20-year-old student at the University of Rochester, argued that a negotiated accord between Israeli and Palestinian leaders would not end conflict in the region<\/strong>, writing: \u201cUsing history as precedent, peace between Arabs and Israelis is virtually impossible and will never come.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He described the Arab world as fractious, and wrote that the then-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was in danger of being assassinated \u201cby his fellow belligerent Arabs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPalestinians will not coexist peacefully,<\/strong>\u201d Shapiro wrote. \u201cThey do not have the capabilities to establish their own homeland and make it successful <\/strong>even with the aid of Israel and the United States. They are too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Shapiro now insists he supports a two-state solution.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI was 20,\u201d he said. \u201cI have said for years, years before October 7, that I favor a two-state solution \u2014 Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully side-by-side, being able to determine their own futures and their own destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n

For sure, views can evolve, but Shapiro is also now sadly downplaying something he shouldn’t. In the same aforementioned op-ed, he identified himself as a former volunteer for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today, however, his campaign is downplaying that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile he was in high school, Josh Shapiro was required to do a service project,<\/strong> which he and several classmates completed through a program that took them to a kibbutz in Israel where he worked on a farm and at a fishery,\u201d Manuel Bonder, a spokesman for Shapiro, told The Times of Israel. \u201cThe program also included volunteering on service projects on an Israeli army base<\/strong>. At no time was he engaged in any military activities.”<\/p>\n

Simultaneously, Shapiro’s volunteering for the IDF has been scrubbed from his Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n

They just scrubbed Josh Shapiro volunteering for the IDF from his Wikipedia page.<\/p>\n

Damage control has been turned up to the max.<\/p>\n

Would be a shame if the Democrat base found out! pic.twitter.com\/rMTFYbuhef<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Vince Dao (@VinceDaoTV) August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Imagine being so desperate to be chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate that you would look at volunteering for the IDF as something not to be proud of because you’re trying to appease the antisemitic and anti-Zionist wing of the Democratic Party. This is the Democratic Party of today.<\/p>\n

JD Vance volunteered to serve in the American military<\/p>\n

Josh Shapiro volunteered to serve in the Israeli military pic.twitter.com\/w5xLkeUYJc<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ib (@Indian_Bronson) August 3, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 08\/03\/2024 – 11:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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