Elizabeth Warren Sides With Israel

Last month's Netroots Nation conference brought about a virtual epidemic of Warrenmania: The contagious theory that freshman Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is ideally positioned to challenge Hillary Clinton for president, and that she hasn't really ruled that out. I was skeptical, because she has ruled this out, many times, and because of a nagging worry some Clinton doubters shared with me. They didn't know where Warren was on foreign policy. Clinton's neoliberal hawkishness, which had created the conditions for beating her in 2008, was well known. But Warren had never really staked out a foreign policy vision, not even in her memoir. In Detroit, when reporters for the conservative Capitol City Project ambushed Warren with a Gaza question, she Speedy Gonzales'd her way to a hotel elevator.

Via Glenn Greenwald, here's a report from C. Ryan Barber on how Warren handled the Israel question.

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