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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Biden has been calling for restraint for a year, but he marginalized himself by continuously providing the weapons that allowed his appeals to be ignored. [b]He appealed to the better angels of Netanyahu’s nature, but it’s not clear that they exist.[/b]

Biden restricted and conditioned U.S. arms transfers to Ukraine but worried that doing the same to Israel might tempt Hezbollah to attack it. So Biden kept the arms flowing (with the exception of at least one shipment of 2,000-pound bombs) and never imposed serious restrictions on their use. [b]This impunity emboldened Netanyahu to ignore Biden, and the upshot is that Biden has nurtured not a regional peace but, it seems, a regional war — with America at risk of being sucked in.[/b]

“In the Middle East, we clearly see a failure of policy,” Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland who admires Biden’s foreign policy in other respects, told me. “And I think it’s ultimately rooted in the Biden administration’s unwillingness to effectively use American influence to achieve the president’s stated goals.”

“The problem we have here is the pattern,” Van Hollen added. “The pattern is that Prime Minister Netanyahu ignores the United States and he gets rewarded for it.”

[b]Jan Eliasson, a former Swedish foreign minister and senior U.N. official, lamented, “It is painful to witness the continuous humiliation of the U.S. president and government by Netanyahu.[/b]”[/quote]
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/05/opinion/biden-israel-war.html
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This is why I can’t bring myself to vote for Harris.  [b]She could do something[/b] but is more than willing to be just one more low-IQ, zero-integrity stooge for Israel.  [/quote]

This is how I feel also. Can’t support her. [/quote]

What, exactly, can Harris or any VP do? They don’t make policy. What do you want her to do? Please be specific.[/quote]

She can make a statement - 'If Im president I will stop weapons sales to Israel until they stop committing war crimes". How hard is that[/quote]

Then she loses the support of the vast majority of Americans who support Israel after it was attacked on 10/7. And she would have no chance of winning the presidency. Trump and has evangelical allies, of course, would then win, which would be a gift to Likud and the far right in Israel. If progressives think American policy towards the ME is going to be better with Trump, then they really haven't been paying attention.    [/quote]

That's crap. Sorry, but most Americans do not support the unlimited attacks on Gaza. Perhaps in the first few months, but no, not at this point. Most Americans do not support this!!!

And who would they lose? I am told over and over again that Gaza/Israel is like not even in the top 10 of things that Americans vote on.

So which is it? Kamala would lose voters if she came out and said anything different, because the vast majority of americans care so much about supporting Israel, she will lose the election?

Or is it that Americans don't care as much about this issue as other issues so her continuing support of Biden/Israel will not change voters minds who are voting against Trump, for democracy, abortion rights, etc.

I agree with the PP. Ok, she's VP. But she should put some distance between herself and the Biden administration by coming out and saying what she would do differently. [/quote]

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