Trump’s Mideast peace plan puts heat on Biden, Buttigieg ahead of Iowa caucuses
Pro-Palestinian activists are urging Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg to push for a cut Israeli military aid in the crucial days before the Iowa caucuses.
The release of President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal this week has thrown a curveball into the Democratic presidential primary in the crucial days ahead of the Iowa caucuses Monday.
In the wake of Trump’s proposal — which would allow Israel to retain all its West Bank settlements and annex the Jordan Valley — the left-wing Jewish activist group IfNotNow put former Vice President Joe Biden and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, on the spot as part of a campaign to cut Israeli military aid.
IfNotNow highlighted two videos on Twitter featuring one of its activists, Elias Newman, confronting Biden and Buttigieg at their respective Iowa campaign events.
“What I’m ready to do is to make sure that we do not in fact support what he’s [Netanyahu] is doing,” Biden told Newman.
