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In reply to the discussion: New York Times Guest Essay: Democrats Ignored Gaza and Brought Down Their Party [View all]Uncle Joe
(64,199 posts)There wasn't even an attempt made to stop selling weapons and arms to Israel. except 2000LB bombs because they were being indiscriminately used to bomb entire neighborhoods.
Aside from this we're supposed to be a if not the major world leader.
Since 7 October 2023, several countries such as Italy, Japan, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands and Belgium have ceased the sale of weapons to Israel.[1][2] Key U.S. allies such as Britain and France are debating it.[3] However the United States and Germany as the major suppliers of Israel's arms imports keep supplying lethal weapons in spite of growing criticism of the mounting civilian casualties.[1][2]
Campaign groups and some Western politicians insist that arms sales to Israel must stop because civilian lives have been lost during the IsraelHamas war, due to alleged Israeli atrocities and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.[4]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_embargoes_on_Israel_since_2023#:~:text=Since%207%20October%202023%2C%20several,and%20France%20are%20debating%20it.
MBS overruling his own Saudi trust fund advisors and letting *rump's shadow diplomat/son in law, long time family friend to Netanyahu, and unqualified Jared (Gaza has major good investment potential) Kushner play with well over 2 billion dollars tells me that they're just waiting for the ethnic cleansing/genocide to be over so that Jared can finally start making them a return on their investment.
If people don't vote because they're not inspired or hearing the message, it's the candidate (s) responsibility to answer the voters or peoples call, not the other way around. One thing is for certain, lumping in and condemning the overwhelming number of sincere protesters (many of them Jewish) against ethnic cleansing and genocide as being anti-Semitic doesn't inspire or motivate anyone to vote.