Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee in Novemberā€™s presidential election, thankfully. He is not withdrawing because heā€™s being held responsible for enabling war crimes against the Palestinian people (though a recent poll does have nearly 40 percent of Americans saying theyā€™re less likely to vote for him thanks to his handling of the war). Yet itā€™s impossible to extricate the collapse in public faith in the Biden campaign from the ā€œuncommittedā€ movement for Gaza. They were the first people to refuse him their votes, and defections from within the presidentā€™s base hollowed out his support well in advance of the debate.

The Democrats and their presumptive nominee Kamala Harris are faced with a choice: On the one hand, they can continue Bidenā€™s monstrous support for Netanyahu, the brutal IDF, and Israelā€™s genocide of Palestinians. That would help allow the party to cover for Biden and put a positive spin on a smooth handoff, even though we all know this would mainly benefit the embittered president himself and his small coterie of loyalists. Such a choice would confirm that the institutional rot that allowed the current situation to develop still characterizes the party.

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    There we go. Now youā€™re being honest. Appreciate it far more than the disingenuous ā€˜oh the humanityā€™ BS.

    Iā€™ll just remind you that Israel literally existed for all of a week and the surrounding nations declared war. They werenā€™t the ones that started all this. Doesnā€™t make their hands clean ofc, but trying to justify terrorism that way is going to fail too so save your breathe.

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      3 months ago

      Ahhh, of course, we are going to reach for the ā€œAnti-Zionism = Anti- Semitismā€ defense. For the record, I make common cause with any Jewish people who oppose colonialism and genocide, like these honest and noble folks: https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/

      Interesting, I wonder what happened immediately before the state of Israel declared Independence? Funny how you and the other occupiers never want to talk about the Nakba. Funny how you want to talk about declaring independence but not about displacing hundreds of thousands and destroying or colonizing hundreds of villages and towns.

      How about this: return all the land that was taken in the Nakba, then we can stop talking about the destruction of the occupier state. Is that civil and fair enough for you? Or was it always about stealing the land from the beginning?

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        3 months ago

        Nakba

        You mean the Palestinian war against a UN mandate? Where again, Palestinians were violent first? I donā€™t think this is the support you think it is.

        Anyways, Iā€™m done. You showed your true goals so thereā€™s no point continuing this debate. Weā€™ll just agree to disagree until it gets settled the hard way.