{"id":517913,"date":"2021-05-17T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517913"},"modified":"2021-05-17T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:20:10","slug":"white-house-says-its-message-for-dems-sparring-with-biden-on-israel-is-to-step-back-from-politics-for-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-says-its-message-for-dems-sparring-with-biden-on-israel-is-to-step-back-from-politics-for-a-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Says Its Message For Dems Sparring With Biden On Israel Is To \u2018Step Back From Politics For A Moment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-says-its-message-for-dems-sparring-with-biden-on-israel-is-to-step-back-from-politics-for-a-moment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=517913&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/psaki-israel-e1621270778373.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"47.172975563009\">\n<p>The White House said its message to Democrats sparring with President Joe Biden over his support for Israel is to \u201cstep back from politics for a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats, including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, have been vocally against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/10\/jake-sullivan-biden-israel-al-aqsa-mosque-sheikh-jarrah-jerusalem-protest\/\">Israel<\/a> and Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/17\/joe-biden-administration-approves-735-million-weapons-sale-israel\/\">support<\/a> for the country amid escalating tensions with militants in Gaza. Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1393673695433043976?s=20\">called<\/a> Israel an \u201capartheid\u201d state on March 15 and <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-criticizes-biden-refers-to-israel-as-apartheid-state-after-latest-gaza-strikes\/\">condemned<\/a> the Biden administration for not standing \u201cup to an ally\u201d while claiming \u201cto stand for human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki, the White House press secretary, was asked about the rift during Monday\u2019s press briefing and reiterated the administration\u2019s belief that a two-state solution is the way to end the violence. She did not offer a solution to the in-fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say, our message is: Sometimes you have to step back from politics for a moment. It\u2019s not easy to do, and we recognize and agree that watching the lives lost of these Palestinian children, of these families, the fear you seen the eyes of the Israeli people \u2013 It is heartbreaking,\u201d Psaki responded when asked what the message for Democrats is. \u201cWe want to bring an end to the violence, we want de-escalate the situation on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe role we feel we can do that through, the most effective way we feel we can do that, is through quiet and intensive diplomacy, and that is what our focus is on at this point in time. But we share an objective of de-escalating the circumstances on the ground. We share with you that a two-state solution is the only way to bring a lasting end to the violence,\u201d Psaki continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/13\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-joe-biden-israel-right-to-defend-itself\/\">Biden<\/a> has repeatedly voiced his support for Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/12\/biden-netanyahu-israel-turkey-russia-hamas\/\">telling<\/a> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the phone on May 12 that they have \u201ca right to defend itself\u201d and expressing \u201cunwavering support\u201d from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>As Democrats fight over support for Israel, dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/17\/jon-ossoff-murphy-young-cease-fire-israel-hamas-air-strikes\/\">senators<\/a> called for a cease-fire between the country and Hamas on Sunday. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/14\/israeli-palestinian-conflict-moderate-democrats-squad-nancy-pelosi-aoc\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0How The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Dividing Democrats)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House said its message to Democrats sparring with President Joe Biden over his support for Israel is to \u201cstep back from politics for a moment.\u201d Some &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278316,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/psaki-israel-e1621270778373.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Says Its Message For Dems Sparring With Biden On Israel Is To \u2018Step Back From Politics For A Moment\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/psaki-israel-e1621270778373.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Says Its Message For Dems Sparring With Biden On Israel Is To \u2018Step Back From Politics For A Moment\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}