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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396125

Stephen Starr in Hamtramck, Michigan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 11.00 EDT

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[-] Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At this point (3 weeks before elections) if she comes out against the genocide, it's obvious it's just a career move and not her actual feelings. It will be business as usual afterward.

Apparently this is what her supporters want. As long as they can convince themselves to FEEL like she didn't want to aid in genocide, that's all that matters.

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 day ago

People here are already claiming that she's secretly against Israel and will flip once she wins, they're in for a surprise (if they're even being genuine).

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[-] graeghos_714@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Both parties are beholden to Israel and the power of AIPAC

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

Other way around. Both parties support Israel because Israel helps secure the Petro-Dollar, by which the US dominates the Global South with predatory IMF loans.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

And it's the cork on land migration out of Africa into West Asia and eventually Europe.

And it's strategically important for the Red Sea trade route connecting Asia to the Mediterranean (although they're having a little trouble with this one lol)

And it's the laboratory for surveillance and detainment and border walls, where they can live test technology and strategies that get exported to prisons and borders and cities around the West.

And it's a place for antisemitic governments to send all their Jewish citizens.

And, of course, there's a large apocalyptic cult of Christians that believe we need to immanentize the eschaton so Jesus can return.

Israel serves so many functions!

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 55 points 1 day ago

She had so many chances to make this election easier. Could have had a Palestinian talk during the DNC, and that would have likely changed this story.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah, earlier in her campaign, I was optimistic that she was just trying not to undermine Biden's foreign policy, and that she would eventually take an at least slightly more critical position on Israel. So far, though, she's seems entirely committed to Israel's escalating violence, and she won't even make the smallest gesture towards the Palestinian community. I didn't expect her to denounce Israel, but staying lock-step with Biden on this is looking like political suicide.

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Oh they're really gonna love how Trump handles Arabs

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's like the trolley problem, except instead of the other track having fewer people, it has more, and it just loops back around to run over the people on the first track anyway. We should have sent the trolley on a completely different route decades ago.

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca -3 points 16 hours ago

Good bye frying-pan, hello fire.

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