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“To those people who are saying, ‘Well, I can’t support Harris because she disagrees [with] Trump on that issue’ … he will be closer to Netanyahu,” Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Sanders said he thinks Vice President Harris can be moved “on that issue” of the Israel-Hamas war.

Harris has called for a cease-fire deal and pushed for the war in Gaza to end, but she faces scrutiny from both sides — from people who want to see Hamas defeated and those who call for the end of the war in Gaza.

“So, if we are able to elect Harris, I think we’re going to have an opportunity to move her on that issue, to make it clear, we cannot allow children in Gaza to starve to death,” Sanders said. “She will be open to that. I doubt that Trump will.”

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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.reckon.news/justice/2024/08/do-palestinians-prefer-kamala-harris-or-donald-trump-gazans-weigh-in.html

This is what I'm referring to. Palestinians hopeful that Harris will bring change and feeling encouraged that she's rebuked Netanyahu.

If people digging out their dead children can be hopeful that she'll bring change, instead of cynical, perhaps you should follow their example.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

rebuked Netanyahu.

Which is as meaningless as her calls for a ceasefire while still supporting endless money and weapons

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You haven't stopped it anymore than Kamala, get serious and go show us all how it's done, chump.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The difference is that she has the ability to I don't

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not at all, the vice president has like no powers or responsibilities. The most significant things they can do is break a tie in the Senate.

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Biden and Harris have confirmed she has been instrumental in everything Biden has done. And shes said she wouldn't have done a thing different. This is her genocide as much as his

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pop quiz, what was the reason for Trump's first impeachment?

Halting money that Congress had allocated to a foreign country.

Biden and Harris have been calling for restraint and cease fires non-stop since the beginning here.

Give Harris Congress, and the she can put a stop to this shit.

Vote for Trump, or convince people to not support Harris, and the genocide will be accelerated.

That's it. Those are the choices.

And if Harris wins the presidency but loses Congress. Well, that's still better than Trump. At that point we'd be in for two to four years of nothing getting done either way.

Need I remind you that a speaker at yesterday's Madison Square Garden Trump rally claimed that "Palestinians are taught to kill us at two years old".

[–] anticolonialist@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago

We've seen and heard this song and dance before, the outcome is always the same. The working class suffers. The rich get richer, and the status quo remains unharmed.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Actual Palestinians didn't find it meaningless, apparently. And if they can believe it, so can we.

Of everyone, people in Gaza have the most right to be cynical. Yet, they aren't. If they have hope, who are we to say their hope is wrong?