Republicans' Support For Israel Is CRATERING! w/ Kyle Anzalone
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Thank you for tuning in to The Jimmy Dore Show. I am not Jimmy Dore. I am Misty Winston. I am joined by Kyle Anzalone, my pal. He has agreed to join me today. We're going to talk a little bit about the cascading support for the state of Israel in the United States, which Kyle and I have talked about for a long time. I think it's in specific since October 7th. you and I have spoken about this and I think it's really important to continue to bring up, especially given if you missed the segment earlier, we talked about the social media and all of that stuff and how, and I really think that the advent of social media has really been unbelievably important. influential in this situation because what we have now, what we have seen since October 7th is that, I mean, prior to this, Israel controlled a lot of the narrative in the West, especially in the United States.
Basically our media was just stenographers to power as they always are. But in particular with Israel, they just would print whatever Israel wanted them to say. And now we have a situation where because of social media, We have people on the ground in Gaza and in the West Bank who are able to live stream and report on the ground what is actually happening. And I think that you and I have spoken about this. I've seen numerous people make videos about it, about how they felt one way about Israel. And since October 7th, they've seen these videos and they've seen the way that it's being covered and they've completely changed their mind. They feel like they were lied to. And I think that that has been extremely instrumental.
I think the social media coverage and the way that they can't control the narrative anymore has been unbelievably damaging to people. Israeli PR in a huge way. But we're really starting to see that take shape in a way that I really, this is huge. So this is from David J. Riley. For the first time in about a decade, the Idaho GOP rejected a resolution supporting Israel. The Israel lobby has lost control of the Idaho Republican Party, and I'm absolutely ecstatic. And this is, I mean, it's kind of wild.
Something absolutely incredible has happened here at the Idaho GOP state convention, and that is that for the first time in about a decade, the Idaho GOP has rejected a resolution supporting Israel. I am speechless. I am beside myself because I never thought that this would happen. 80% of the room voted to reject the resolution supporting Israel, condemning Hamas and all that. And of course, it's not because anybody supports Hamas. It's not because people here are anti-Semitic. It's because Idaho and Israel have, frankly, nothing to do with each other. Israel is 5,000 miles away, and there is nothing that our state legislators, our lawmakers, our county commissioners, and our state Republican Party can, frankly, do about foreign policy.
There's nothing that we can do to affect anything 5,000 miles away. We should be laser-focused on doing things at home. And so what happened was, in the meeting, Brian Lenny, state senator Brian Lenny, made a motion to strike the resolution supporting Israel that was seconded by a young gentleman. And they made passionate arguments about why this has nothing to do and is not germane, frankly, to the business of the Idaho Republican Party. And so, yeah, it it was overwhelmingly rejected, which is just absolutely an incredible turn of events here. We did an interview. I did an interview with Brian Lenny a little bit ago, but unfortunately, my microphone wasn't working. So I had to rerecord this video, but yeah, man, unbelievable.
Nobody saw that coming. I thought it was a foregone conclusion that we would be seeing yet another pro-Israel resolution, and it hasn't. And so this is what happens when you work together, you don't burn your bridges, and you're persistent. You've got to be persistent at this. We've been trying, at least I have, for the past six years to get this stuff out of the Idaho Republican resolutions, the platform, and all of that.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–4:27
2
How has social media changed American public opinion on U.S. support for Israel?
4:27–11:56
3
Why did the Idaho GOP reject a pro‑Israel resolution and what does it signal?
11:56–44:45
4
Are Republican politicians genuinely shifting on Israel or just posturing?
44:45–53:40
5
Could a U.S.–Iran rapprochement bypass Congress and what are the implications?
53:40–1:00:55