Islam Times - Dems and GOP must stop pursuing ‘Israel first’ foreign policy

Islam Times - Both Democratic and Republican parties need to come up with a cohesive plan for the American foreign policy that deviates from this ‘Israel first’ foreign policy, says Mark Dankof, a former US Senate candidate.

Dankof, who is also a broadcaster and pastor in San Antonio, Texas, made the remarks while commenting on a statement by Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Biden said on Tuesday that the US Congress should move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump if he blocks efforts to investigate matters "left undone" by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, just 18 months before the 2020 presidential election.

The former US vice president said that Democrats would have "no alternative" but to impeach the Republican president if he were to block a congressional investigation into whether he obstructed justice by firing former FBI Director James Comey.

“I think Mr. Biden is going down the wrong path in terms of this whole business of impeachment. The reason I say that is that they would definitely get him impeached in the House, they would not get a conviction in the Senate, which would simply take the American people through another two years of crisis on the top of the Russia gate investigation that is now completely discredited,” Dankof said.

“I think it’s a better strategy if Democrats do worry about what it is if they propose in terms of policy how to run the United States, or they would propose to which differs with this whole neoconservative Zionist foreign policy that both Mr. Trump and his Democratic counterparts seem to be in favor of especially Mr. Biden,” he stated.

“What we have here is a crisis in both of the major parties. It seems to me that in the run-up to 2020 rather than all of this talk about impeachment and the Russia gate, and all this other nonsense, both of the major political parties need to come up with a cohesive plan for the American foreign policy that deviates from this ‘Israel first’ foreign policy, which both the United States and both of its major political parties have been pursuing for all these decades,” the analyst noted.