Bob Carr

JD Vance says the war was to blame and US needs a new policy on Israel. This vindicates all those Democrats who’ve already abandoned support for Israel & totally undercuts the work of America’s Jewish lobby tying US to the Jewish state. Sometimes history gets made very, very fast

Talk of the defeat of MAGA and the populist right is wrong. The fight-back will only strengthen them. The pathologies that produced them haven’t faded.

And he’s expressly criticised Jewish lobby organisation AIPAC, and refused to take its cash. Says his opposition to Israel’s behaviour in Gaza is grounded in his Christianity. What a shift and how overdue.

Massively successful in Texas Senate race, James Talarico said in August “I would not vote to send weapons to the Netanyahu government.”

North and South Carolina and Maine and Kansas? And a 1994-style sweep of the House? It’s a mandate to turn off the stupendous flow of funds to the Israel-inspired war on Iran and, of course - another popular move - end military aid to Israel (which Trump hints he now supports).