This Wednesday’s news kept me repeating lines from that old cry from the heart that is the Cranberries’ rocker “Zombie”: “In your head, in your head they are fighting/With their tanks, and their bombs, and their bombs, and their guns/In your head, in your head they are crying.” As the catastrophic destruction of Gaza deepens, Cori Bush, a Missouri member of the “Squad” and a ceasefire advocate, lost her Democratic primary Tuesday to her better funded pro-Israel, AIPAC-supported opponent, Wesley Bell. The Intercept reports that, with AIPAC millions and funds from other Bush opponents, she was outspent 4 to 1. The Bush loss was much like that of Sushila Jayapal to the AIPAC-supported Maxine Dexter in our 3rd District, as well as the primary loss of New York’s Jamaal Bowman (another “Squad” member vastly outspent). It seems frighteningly possible that we could have a Dem President more open to a rational Middle East policy, yet with a Congress more willing than ever to arm Israel. Groups like the Justice Democrats, Progressive Democrats of America, and the Jewish Voice for Peace PAC are trying to counter this massive tide of electoral dollars from AIPAC and its allies; the Working Families Party also supported Ms. Bush. Joe Meyer, of the Green Party, is one option for a November protest vote in Blumenauer’s District 3, if genocide disgusts you. Jim Hightower has remarked folksily that elected officials will dance with those who brung ‘em. Could AIPAC dollars be a decisive factor leading us to support greater war in the Middle East?