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White House urging Democrats to reject progressive push to block arms transfers to Israel
(www.timesofisrael.com)
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Source remained unnamed, basically "trust us bro."
Do you think the Times of Israel is making things up? Because anonymous sources aren't anonymous to the reporter, they're anonymous to us. Granted, Israeli newspapers are quite a bit less trustworthy than most, but it's hard to see how a fabrication is valuable to them.
I see very clearly how making a fabrication is valuable to them. What I don't see is why a US Lawmaker would do an exclusive interview with a foreign newspaper and remain anonymous on this issue, or why many other supposedly stayed silent.
How? The thing they wanted to happen happened, and the guy they're trying to portray as having their back is a lame duck. The quote is an "official", not a lawmaker and could be from the administration itself or any of a host of pro-Israel lawmakers who would happily reassure an Israeli newspaper that the Democratic establishment is still with them all while maintaining the faux confidentiality that intra-party lobbying has.