Stop enabling the genocide? Please?
All they have to do is pledge to follow the Leahy Law…
Israel won’t comply, which means we legally can’t provide arms. Kamala doesn’t even have to be “the bad guy”, she can just say she’s choosing to follow American law and if Israel wants arms then they can comply like every other recipient has to.
It’s really as easy as saying:
If elected I will not break American law to send arms to foreign countries.
Boom, election locked up.
How many voters would she lose if she declared intent to stop assisting Isreal?
She might possibly gain a few, but would she lose any?
Is not about voters, it’s about money. Both parties are bribed to keep it going.
She’d gain more than she’d lose, even before counting in the electoral college. Conditioning Israeli aid is supported by the majority of people of Democrats, Republicans and independents, and the people who don’t want it don’t care too much either way. Definitely not more than left wingers who want the genocide to stop. In terms of votes it’s a no brainer.
She would likely gain voters because she would be distinguishing herself from Biden who remains deeply unpopular.
It’s a valid question and I’m sure the Harris campaign has spent considerable resources trying to get a good estimate of that number.
It’s pretty insane that the Democratic party officials have to say, “We’d love to stop funding a genocide but our members won’t vote for us if we do that.”
This is THE potential problem with this
Yeah, I would hope there are more anti-genocide voters but i doubt it, honestly.
Yes. Enough to lose. These people don’t seem to understand this (or refuse to)
Any voters she would lose are far outweighed by the amount of voters she’d get. It’s about 5:1 from what the polls indicate, or about a +6 point gain. Quite significant considering how dead-locked the race is right now
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Our first matchup tested a Democrat and a Republican who “both agree with Israel’s current approach to the conflict in Gaza”. In this case, the generic candidates tied 44–44. The second matchup saw the same Republican facing a Democrat supporting “an immediate ceasefire and a halt of military aid and arms sales to Israel”. Interestingly, the Democrat led 49–43, with Independents and 2020 non-voters driving the bulk of this shift.
- Split Ticket (July 2024)
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In Pennsylvania, 34% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7% who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference. In Arizona, 35% said they’d be more likely, while 5% would be less likely. And in Georgia, 39% said they’d be more likely, also compared to 5% who would be less likely.
- New Poll Suggests Gaza Ceasefire and Arms Embargo Would Help Dems with Swing State Voters (Full YouGov Report) (May 2024)
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- Data For Progress Poll (May 2024)
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Majorities of Democrats (67%) and Independents (55%) believe the US should either end support for Israel’s war effort or make that support conditional on a ceasefire. Only 8% of Democrats but 42% of Republicans think the US must support Israel unconditionally.
Republicans and Independents most often point to immigration as one of Biden’s top foreign policy failures. Democrats most often select the US response to the war in Gaza.
Maybe their thought process is that D voters will vote for her either way and they’re trying to pull R voters who support Isreal? Otherwise, I don’t get it. The data here supports pulling support of Israel.
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You people really have a massively inflated concept of how many voting progressives that there are. Get off the internet for a while…
Harris would 100% lose the election if she said that.
Best they can do is thoughts and prayers. Oh wait, that was school shootings. Never mind then.
School bombings don’t qualify.
Israelis don’t have the guts to even look the children in their eyes as they slaughter them. Cowards.
When they actually face real soldiers like in Southern Lebanon they get their arses handed to them.
All they know is blow up pager, burn refugee camp, bomb hospitals, shoot pregnant women in belly, rape men to death, and sniper bullets in kid’s heads.
I’m also offended by Israeli war crimes but I don’t think that’s an accurate assessment.
As far as I can tell, the Israeli military is very good at violence. They’re extremely well equipped, they have superb training, and their military personnel tend to be dedicated to their cause.
The main problem isn’t their ability to kill and destroy, it’s their indiscriminate use of that ability.
It’s much more respectable to mob a peace music festival and kill the kids there.
Implying that the only two options are supporting Israel committing genocide or Hamas committing terrorism is like straight out of of the Israeli regime’s playbook.
Yes, because condemnation of Israel is an automatic voice of support of what happened on 10/7. Nice logic there buddy.
Ignorance of the causes is a voice of support for terrorists. I’m digging your logic as well.
I agree. Your ignorance of why the 10/7 attacks happened is a voice of support for the genocidal-terrorist state of Israel.
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You’re referencing a terrorist attack from a year ago. Keep up.
Yep, as I keep saying, and keep getting downvoted in this bs echo chamber of Iranian talking points, both sides are fucking awful and that isn’t going to change.
Of course they look them in the eyes! It helps them aim for the head!
machinin was thrown out of a window
Anybody? Any solution will do, cmon people
Not those islams!
Okay, now let us know how you plan to keep Hamas and Hezbollah from continuing to attack Israel. Or does it not count when Jews are being genocided?
After burning those kids alive, honestly, I’ve given up caring what happens to the people in Israel.
You should care. The people are not the leadership.
Apparently the people don’t care enough to stop their soldiers from burning kids alive. Why should I care what happens to them?
That’s pretty reductive. How much power do you think the Israeli people have?
I’m American. I know my country is funding this genocide. All I have is my vote, which has very little impact. I care a lot, but other than my vote I’m powerless to stop my government from arming Israel.
The Israeli citizens are similarly powerless.
No. Governments exist by the consent of the governed.
And the Israeli people recently protested in favor of torturing Palestinians. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2q07kd3ld6o
Majority of Americans support a ceasefire. Majority of Israelis support what the IDF is doing. There’s a big difference.
Aaron Bushnell said he wasn’t going to let the U.S. do a genocide in his name.
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You’re a bad person then.
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The current extremist government in Israel knows exactly what they need to do to stop Hamas and Hezbollah from continuing to attack Israel, they just don’t want to. They’d rather continue to create the conditions for extremism so that these attacks can be used as justification to finish their genocide.
At this point we know that if you keep an entire group of people poor and oppressed with no prospect of economic opportunity or achieving a viable state, they become easier to recruit into a terrorist group. What have they got left to lose? Why NOT grab a rocket and attack your oppressors? This is why international law doesn’t allow the creation of stateless persons…
Israel could STOP settlement expansion into the West Bank, first and foremost. They could start complying with international law and internationally recognized borders. They could stop working AGAINST a two state solution.
Maybe the Israelis could stop assassinating their own leaders when they work towards peaceful solutions. They could also stop radicalizing their own youth and defense forces to believe that the only solution is to exterminate the Palestinians.
There is a whole range of things that they could do… I wonder why they don’t?
What they need to do to stop Hamas and Hazbollah from attacking them is to eliminate them entirely.
I don’t think you understand that the continued existence of groups who’s only purpose in life is to kill a specific subset of people CAN NOT be allowed to exist. They CAN NOT run a state, they CAN NOT be expected to honor any sort of peace treaty.
I’m not blind. I know damn well Israel is committing atrocities during the war. The problem is that the people they’re fighting against are worse than them, so it only makes sense to support Israel until these terrorist groups are dead and gone.
Where did all these evil people come from? Is it possible that Israel’s actions are just going to create even more and worse terrorist groups? Or you think the surviving children will grow up and look kindly on Israel for killing their parents and destroying their homes?
You would rather take your chances with the terrorists that already stated they want to genocide all Jews… Because the alternative is that some of their children might have the same viewpoint in the future?
Wow what a tough choice.
How about stop creating terrorists? These people attack the rest of us too. Is the Israeli plan just to kill every Arab in the region?
Damn what a good idea. Stop creating terrorists. Please tell us how you plan to do that!
I’m sure your answer surely isn’t “Well just go back to Israel getting rockets launched at them every day but they aren’t allowed to retaliate!”
“Just let another October 7th massacre happen. But they aren’t allowed to retaliate!”
I’m sure eventually the terrorists will just give up or something right?
Genuinely though, if you have a better answer I’m all ears because I haven’t heard of one yet and I would love to look for better options.
You aren’t allowed to criticize Hamas and Hezbollah on here. Only IDF. Or actually all of Israel. Unless you are some Iranian-backing anti-Zionist, you get downvoted. It’s too bad what has happened to discourse on Lemmy that people aren’t even willing to contemplate the actions of all parties involved.
If you aren’t anti-arab a nice gesture might be to stop murdering them.
But there is a lot of water in Lebanon. Israel wants that.
This is Peak Liberalism. Saying this while genociding them.
“we SEE you, we HEAR you, but Israel needs money . . .”
And what about the U.S. casualties, should we not care about them?
Yeah, good luck with that. Islamophobia is one of Trump’s tentpoles.
It also happens to be one of Harris’ tent poles.
This is pure Liberal brainrot, sometimes reality feels like a parody of itself. I dont even have much to say tbh, im too tired for this bs.
Peak liberalism
No more Islamophobia if there aren’t Islamic people any more 🤷♂️ /s
Setting aside the hypocrisy, is it just me or is it infuriating how the whole article is a whole lot of nothing?
Did you even read it? It states literally 20 bullets on how the Executive Branch will combat racism.
I just read that list. As near as I can tell they put a lot of words in that don’t actually promise anything helpful. Maybe I’m wrong.
Let’s make it as easy as possible to show this plan in a good light. Instead of finding one bad bullet point in that list and tearing it up, let’s see if we can find one good one.
Out of that entire list, which bullet point do you think has the best chance to actually “counter Islamophobia and Anti-Arab Hate?”
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I didn’t see any bullet points about no longer genociding arabs.
According to the White House site linked here that you didn’t read, we only care about the ones that pay U.S. taxes or live in the US, including Muslim immigrants in the US. The others outside of the USA can go fuck themselves.
Not only hypocrisy, but also not true at all lol.
Biden pretty much okay’d Universities arresting their students to stop protests because his lobbyists threatened to withhold funding for both the party and each respective university.
Of course he didn’t care about the zionist mob that attacked UCLA students, so it’s pretty clear where he stands.
Fucking pathetic.
wtf is wrong with these people!
Anti-arab hate… let’s see… Arab hate is bad, so anti-arab hate is good… but they are trying to “counter” anti-arab hate, so that’s bad?
