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Because Harris told them, multiple times, month after month after month that she wanted a cease fire, a hostage release, and a two state solution.
That is not "supporting genocide", but you can't explain that to low information voters.
Getting Trump elected supported genocide over there and bringing Israeli policies here. We're seeing it now with the arrest of an innocent family.
That's just the tip of the iceberg to what Trump wants to do.
In Israel:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-invasion-lebanon-what-happening-ground
Trump's plan:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-mexico-military-cartels-war-on-drugs-1234705804/
I've been fighting the same fight as you this whole time with the Gaza thing and I couldn't agree more with what you've said here
Did she ever say she'd stop selling them weapons on credit or?
No, because the stated policy of the United States is that Israel has the right to defend itself from attack, as they have repeatedly done with Iran.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2024_Iranian_strikes_against_Israel
We aren't going to cut the supply chain because Israel chooses to misuse it. That's on them, not us.
So you would sell weapons to nazi germany with a free conscience?
Like seriously wtf is wrong with you.
No, because Nazi Germany weren't defending themselves, they were actively waging a war of aggression.
If Israel stopped hostilities in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank TODAY, they would still be subject to attacks from Iran.
Those attacks are the basis for US assistance.
Israel is not defending itself lmao. They have been claiming that since they stole the land and its pathetic you still believe it
Agsinst repeated Iranian atracks? They absolutely are.
April, 2024:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2024_Iranian_strikes_against_Israel
October, 2024:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2024_Iranian_strikes_against_Israel
Why do you think Iran is attacking them. Out of curiosity
Oh no, spite. Definitely spite.
Ah, so completely immaterial reasons that have nothing to do with the geopolitical actions of entire states. Good to know
Not really, Iran believes that Israel, as a state, has no right to exist. Nothing to do with their actions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimacy_of_the_State_of_Israel
"Since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran's official position has been to not recognize the State of Israel. According to psychologist Rusi Jaspal, Iranian officials and state media often employ pejorative terminology to delegitimize Israel. For example, he says they refer to Israel as the "Zionist regime" and "Occupied Palestine" to imply that it is an oppressive regime rather than a legitimate sovereign state. Jaspal says that such language is not reserved for the state alone, and that Israelis are often labelled "Zionists". Jaspal further says such rhetoric has been consistent in Iranian media, especially in English-language publications targeting international audiences.[38]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_relations
I agree
Consider that Iran believes Israeli doesn't have a right to exist because of the way it acts and who benefits from its existence.
They believed that long before Israel acted the way they do now.
Israel's actions now are consistant with its entire history. Iran simply recognized it for what it was in the beginning. I have read multiple books and taken classes on this exact subject. You are either dangerously ignorant or knowingly defending a genocidal settler colonial state
wrong, thats on us, what sort of reality do you live in? joe and kamala were horrible people, just because trump is going full hitler they get a pass
We also would have a fuck load more progress with them then trump. And you're a fucking idiot if you think otherwise. What good did withholding your vote do? Seriously, does it mean jack shit to anyone other then you at this point?
They get a pass because their policy is infinitely preferable to Trumps.
Who gives a shit what she said when her actions completely contradict that empty rhetoric? Joe Biden also claimed to support a two state solution while giving Israel every bomb, weapon, equipment, funding and support they needed to wipe Palestine off the map. Please elaborate on what her actual plan was to achieve even one of these things or why you think this wasn't just more of the same empty rhetoric we've gotten from Democratic candidates over the past several decades.
At one of her rallies, she had someone removed after they stated that Israel was committing genocide and made sure to release a statement that she "did not and does not agree" with this fact. She also stated that she would not stop arms shipments to Israel. You call others "low information voters" while engaging in the very low information behavior that you accuse others of engaging in because you support party over policy to the point that you're supporting genocide in addition to all the other inaction and bullshit promises that have lead us to this point.
If you're so concerned about Trump or Trump-lile individuals getting elected, why do you continue to support the controlled opposition party that seemingly only exists to make the election seem legitimate? A party that, when the cameras were off, bent over backward to ensure Trump was elected again for the second time?
"Her actions"? You realize that, as Vice President, she had no official actions on Israel or Gaza, you get that right?
Her job was a) to cast the tiebreaking vote in the Senate if anything came up 50/50, and b) to be President if something happened to Biden.
That's IT. That's all the VP gets to do.
So when it comes to what she says vs. what she did, all she CAN do is tell you what she would do as President.
Cease fire, hostage release, two state solution. Over and over again.
Compared with Trump's "Get it over with quickly, it's making you look bad."
What a surprise, the standard "they have no power to do anything to help" excuse whenever any Democrat is rightly criticized for their inaction on any issue. We heard this a lot during the 15 months of him enabling a genocide including those several months after SCOTUS declared the president immune from the law and after Harris had already lost; excuse after excuse. Meanwhile Republicans always manage to steamroll through their legislation or orders regardless of whether they have the authority, power, or majority because Democrats always either enable them or roll over for them.
Hmm, it almost seems as if the whole "leftist," human rights, working class support rhetoric is just an act like it's all a fucking scripted WWE match. It's funny that even when the Democrats have a supermajority, they still have some excuse for why they can't help the country or improve the average person's quality of life.
It's also funny that all you've done here is latch onto two words from my comment in order to derail the discussion and steer it away from the factual evidence demonstrating that she did and does support Israel's genocide in stark contrast to your false claims that she is against this one-sided war. You can't deny that she had someone ejected from her rally for calling it a genocide. You can't deny that she wanted to continue arming Israel. You can't deny that she stated a genocide isn't happening. You can't deny that she spent half her campaign palling around with yet another war criminal Dick Cheney. Instead, you'd rather pretend that none of this is happening and lash out at the people who are done pretending.
It's not that "they don't have any power" it's that there's LITERALLY NOTHING the VP can do.
They don't set the policy, that's the job of the President.
They don't pass legislation, that's the job of the House and Senate. If the Senate is tied on a bill, the VP can break the tie, but outside that THEY HAVE NO ROLE.
As an individual citizen, the VP can't engage in diplomacy.
All she could do is exactly what she did, run for President on a platform of cease fire, hostage release, two state solution.
"BuH BuH WhY DiDn't sHe dO AnYtHiNg??!?!?"
You might as well ask why J.D. Vance doesn't do anything, or why didn't Biden do anything as V.P. That's not what the job is.
Stop blaming the VP because you don't comprehend how it all works.