Georgia Senate Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock has been distancing himself from past statements hostile to Israel. Earlier this week, Warnock said he did not believe Israel to be "an apartheid state" stating, “I do not believe Israel is an ‘apartheid state’ as some have suggested."
Well, Warnock himself made such a suggestion during a 2016 sermon in which he said, “If you do not have a Palestinian state, you will have to have apartheid in Israel that denies other citizens, sisters and brothers, citizenship.”
Of course, this is rubbish. Most Palestinians, by establishing a state, seek Israel's destruction.
I hope Warnock has genuinely evolved in his views. But he is running for office. Should he be elected to office who can say he won't revert to his old form?
Notwithstanding this I will still be voting for him albeit even more reluctantly now than before.
While Kelly Loeffler has raised Warnock's views on Israel as an issue she has not been able to make a good case for it as was so readily apparent during their debate last weekend when Loeffler came off as an automaton incapable of putting together a coherent sentence. And, of course, there's not the so small matter of her stock portfolio and unwillingness to help others in far greater need than herself.
So, yes, I will vote for Raphael Warnock even if there's a very good chance I will come to regret it.
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