Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee in Novemberā€™s presidential election, thankfully. He is not withdrawing because heā€™s being held responsible for enabling war crimes against the Palestinian people (though a recent poll does have nearly 40 percent of Americans saying theyā€™re less likely to vote for him thanks to his handling of the war). Yet itā€™s impossible to extricate the collapse in public faith in the Biden campaign from the ā€œuncommittedā€ movement for Gaza. They were the first people to refuse him their votes, and defections from within the presidentā€™s base hollowed out his support well in advance of the debate.

The Democrats and their presumptive nominee Kamala Harris are faced with a choice: On the one hand, they can continue Bidenā€™s monstrous support for Netanyahu, the brutal IDF, and Israelā€™s genocide of Palestinians. That would help allow the party to cover for Biden and put a positive spin on a smooth handoff, even though we all know this would mainly benefit the embittered president himself and his small coterie of loyalists. Such a choice would confirm that the institutional rot that allowed the current situation to develop still characterizes the party.

  • katy āœØ@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    bidens policy has been more pro gaza/ceasefire then american policy towards gaza for a long time why would you want to break from it

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      Thereā€™s nothing pro Palestinian about repeating Israeli propaganda uncritically, blaming the Palestinians for everything, and being the primary supplier of weapons and ammunition for the genocide.

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      Divert all weapon shipments to Ukraine, and refuse to support Israel until they withdraw and hold a ceasefire for at least X time.

      Thatā€™s the policy that they should be using, not some confused geriatric Zionistā€™s policies.

      The Jews themselves declared the US to be Zion before WWII. Time for them to come home, and leave the Palestinians alone