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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 months ago

Israel is not only starving Gazans, they've BEEN starving Gazans for DECADES.

That's been the whole point of the blockade.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Why does Biden support genocide?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Because he's a self-proclaimed Zionist and the end goal of Zionism has always been genocide. Now, why is he a Zionist? shrugs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

why is he a Zionist?

The world may never know

Also notice that he taken more money since the start of the Gaza slaughter

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because the calculation has been made, he will lose more votes from people who support Israel than people who support Palestine because the first ones don't mind the alternative which will support Israel even more and the second ones will be in deep shit if Trump gets elected so they have no choice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are we always going to be prisoners to these types of choices?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

There’s almost 6 million reasons why.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago

This is genocide denial plain and simple.

Also remember that whenever anyone tries to tell you that you shouldn't be bringing up Biden's genocide support because it might hurt his chances in the US election, they are also doing genocide denial. They are genocide deniers.

They may not be denying that the genocide is happening, they're just denying that we should talk about it. They're denying its importance.

And sure, Trump would probably be worse at this, so vote. But if Biden genuinely needs widespread genocide denial to win then that is not only not an acceptable thing to ask of voters, it is also unhinged. People know about the genocide, they know Biden is dragging his feet on the issue and pretending that's not happening just to protect him makes his case look extremely weak.

If you really think that no amount of denouncement and excoriation will influence him to stop supporting genocide then again, you are saying awful things about him without realising it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

He also claimed there's no genocide

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Why did he build the pier for aid?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To give the appearance of caring while not actually trying to improve the situation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Well, true. Pretty much everything he's done pro Palestine has been 99% performative. But my point was that it's bizarre to claim that Israel is not starving Palestinians while also building a pier because aid (including food) isn't getting rhrough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Several of the ships sent have been doing similar operations to the region for over a decade, so it probably wasn't a difficult move to make.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My point was that it shows he clearly understands that aid, mainly food, wasn't getting through. He's a liar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And mine was that he hasn't done much in general about the situation. I like the pier and airdrops as concepts but I don't think they were impactful to the scale of what we could accomplish if we really tried.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If he really wanted change he would pressure Israel. The US is the sole reason this situation hasn't ever resolved

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Id trust the people on the streets there before any out of touch government second guesser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, but in typical c-suite fashion they (e.g., Biden in this case) listen but don’t hear or care what the people who are actually in the shit of it all think/say because agendas.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Says the guy who literally built a fucking pier to delivery food because Israel won't let trucks go through on the road.

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