It seems the “Democratic Socialists” who were elected to the Denver City Council just last spring are already bored with their $100K-plus-a-year jobs. The homelessness crisis, the immigration crisis, the affordable-housing crisis — to say nothing of patching potholes and policing the streets — didn’t hold their attention for long.
So, now, they want the council to focus on — drumroll, please — Mideast politics!
As The Denver Gazette reported Wednesday, council rookies Shontel Lewis and Sarah Parady, both endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America in the April 2023 municipal election, want the council to endorse a resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Some other U.S. cities reportedly have taken similar action. Lewis says a resolution could come before council as soon as Monday.
Presumably, the hope is Israel will be pressured into halting its military pursuit of genocidal Hamas terrorists in neighboring Gaza after they massacred 1,139 Israelis, mostly civilians, in a cross-border blitz last Oct. 7. That’s assuming either Israel or Hamas know or care about statements from the soapboxes of fledgling provincial officials in the U.S.