Potential VP Pick Shapiro Under Fire for Anti-Palestinian Op-ed in 1993

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D), who is considered a likely contender to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate, is facing criticism from left-wing Democrats over a pro-Israel op-ed he wrote in 1993 in which he doubted a two-state solution. In the op-ed, Shapiro disclosed that he had volunteered at an Israeli army base as a teenager, and opined that the Palestinians were “too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own.” In the opinion article, titled “Peace not possible,” Shapiro, then a 20-year-old student at the...