Exclusive: Leaked position paper shows top Dem House candidate wants Jerusalem divided
Nebraska Democratic congressional candidate Tony Vargas wants Israel’s capital city to be divided, his leaked position paper obtained by the Washington Reporter reveals.
Vargas, who has spent much of his campaign against Rep. Don Bacon (R., Neb.) on the defensive over reports that he assaulted a taxi driver, wants a “shared capital for both Israel and a future Palestinian state in Jerusalem,” he says in his paper.
Vargas’s website mentions no foreign policy positions, and the New Yorker-turned-Nebraskan “hasn’t been very forthcoming on Israel,” Townhall reported.
Bacon however told the Reporter that Jerusalem should be the undivided capital of Israel. During his time in Congress, Bacon has expressed his support for a strong U.S.-Israel relationship and has loudly condemned anti-Semitism. Vargas, on the other hand, has been silent.
No historical basis exists for Jerusalem to serve as the capital of a Palestinian state — a concept which also lacks any historical basis, according to a Reporter review of the region’s history.
