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Lots of people here frame this as a Biden and Harris policy. While the Senate is evenly split between parties, the House is majority Republican. Congress is where this money is allocated. And Trump is rabidly anti-Muslim. But sure, frame aid as Biden and Harris only. Never mind what will happen once Trump wins the election.
The genocide is bipartisan, and Biden is in power right now. It's framed as Biden policy, because it literally is.
What the fuck are you talking about? Are you trying to tell me that the overwhelming Muslim or leftist progressive protesters want a Trump presidency? How the fuck does that make sense?
No its about stopping a genocide you ghoul. It's hard to make the situation worse than it is. Biden is obligated to stop arms sales years ago.
Read The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and never speak again.
10% of Gaza is estimated to be dead and another 20% are under siege in what is in all likelihood an extermination operation right now.
The lack of self-awareness in this post is staggering.
They could refuse to sign the legislation, and force a vote in congress to overrule his veto. Then at least we could say the president isn't a willing participant to fucking genocide.
It's worse than that. Israel is absolutely ineligible for aid under the Leahy Law. Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan have actively ignored any and all evidence of war crimes. Even when it was our own intelligence and state department agencies generating the evidence. He doesn't need to veto any of it. He could literally just cite the law and freeze the aid. Then it stays there ready for Israel to show it can operate without war crimes.
They're literally ignoring our own laws to support this genocide.
Biden has dozen of options to halt all arms sales to Israel whenever he wants. He is obligated to do so by both international and US law because of the blatant war crimes and attacks on aid workers but go off I guess.
It will happen regardless of who wins the election, because imperialism is bipartisan. And it’s not about Biden or Harris or Trump: the Republican and the Democratic candidates were always going to be supportive of imperialism. The Republican & Democratic political machines aren’t going to float anti-imperialists on the general election ballot.