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Nah, they're clamoring for Biden to hurry up and stop shipment of arms to Israel and get the ceasefire some before Trump gets into office. Too little to late guys, Israel won't care, won't do shit now that they know trump won.
We’ve been clamoring for it since Biden first bypassed congress to directly send them weapons and money after October.
Israel has never cared so far and gotten away with everything, so nothing has changed there.
You just keep thinking that both sides are bad even when one party, despite its flaws, tried to push for peace and the other side publicly expressed genocide is the preferred solution.
Good luck on the upcoming year in affecting change!
The Democratic Party preferred to lose to a fascist over taking the election seriously and pushing for peace. Biden, who is a Christian Zionist, continues to send billions worth of weapons unconditionally, nothing about withholding military weapons to reign Israel in to a permanent ceasefire. Harris didn't break from Biden on policy at all, ran on unwaivering support for Israel, ignored Palestinian victims and all the Americans that has directly affected, and campaigned instead on the most lethal Military in the world with Liz Cheney. It would've taken more policy changes than just on Israel to win the popular vote, but just that one policy change would've made them far more likely to win the swing states and electorial college
Imagine believing that genocide joe has been pushing for peace.
That and Israel doesn't NEED our weapons to keep doing what they're doing, they never have.
Cutting them off only makes them weaker should they be attacked by Iran and does nothing to stop the genocide.
Well maybe on opposite day.
I mean, it's only happened a couple of times already...
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3923123/us-assets-in-mediterranean-again-helped-defend-israel-against-iranian-missiles/
Uh... Seriously look up what political scientists have to say about this. Israel uses too much, well, everything compared to what they can produce themselves.
And how is that a bad thing? Israel wouldn't be able to do this shit if the US wasn't protecting it from its neighbors.
Israel is, depending on who's counting, between the 8th and 10th largest weapons dealer in the world
https://globelynews.com/world/world-top-arms-exporting-countries/amp/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-the-leadings-exporters-of-conventional-weapons/
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-share-global-arms-exports-2022/
They don't need our help executing a people they have spent decades marginalizing.
Okay, so if they need it, don’t provide it, don’t be complacent in genocide.
The lengths people will go to defend the US for Israel is insane.
Oh, we should have stopped providing aid to Israel decades ago, but that won't stop the genocide.
That’s pretty much the best way to get them to stop, let them face repercussions. So you’ve already proven that point false.
Except what happens then is the radical pro-Israel lobby then attacks anyone and everyone involved in that decision, actively making things worse here.
See:
https://apnews.com/article/squad-aipac-progressives-congress-cori-bush-0de0a96929368db72145b033261415ca
So nobody should do anything to stop Israel attacking people because otherwise Israel will attack them?
That’s specious reasoning.
and we should reward them for interfering in our elections instead of jailing them ? do you know what happened the last time world tried to appease genocidal right wing lunatics ?
Then the right move would've been to change on the position just before voting began so AIPAC wouldn't have the time to respond with attack ads. It took AIPAC eight months and 25 million to unseat two anti-genocide representatives
That guy is already beating his wife, if I stop giving him hammers to do it with, that other guy that's pissed off about it all might do something bad