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Harris vows at Michigan rally to ‘do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza’
(www.theguardian.com)
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It's completely in her power to stop whitewashing a genocide and creating false equivalences by calling it a "war".
Not until after the election. She's walking a wire trying to get nonMAGA republicans to vote for her in order to save Democracy. They need to at least pretend to believe she won't completely abandon Israel. If she can beat Trump, she'll then be free to call a genocide a genocide. In any case, Trump wants to end the war by letting his buddy Bibi nuke Gaza and just fucking kill all the Palestinians. A "final solution" as it were.
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Seems a little too little too late for it to move the needle much, especially given how much early voting has happened. Harris’s position on Israel has been so bizarre, pretty sure Israel has even been actively working against Democrats this whole time anyways.
IIRC she said she wouldn't remain silent, and then didn't really say anything committal or concrete.
Way to late and it's ridiculous she waited till desperation to take a good stance.
Peace has always been her call. We have yet to see how she would work for it because she isn't in the hot seat yet. We have a choice between someone calling for peace, but not really pro Palestinian, and someone calling for ultra death squads.
Grow up.
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It's basically the same pattern Biden followed. Even when he did fits and starts of good things, it was way too late and only felt like he was doing it for political reasons, not because he had a change of heart.
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Like her ads I'm sure she has a more pro Israel slant in other cities.
I've already voted for her, but I don't believe her.
This is a vague plea for peace without any indication of what things she believes (and more importantly, publicly acknowledges) would be "in her power". Is the limit of her power sternly worded letters, arms embargoes, or intervention? Because I'm pretty sue she's not opening the door for US peacekeeping troops in Gaza, though that would be in her power (at least for a short term).
But like, with Harris we get to see if she's willing to do anything meaningful, and maybe as public sentiment continues to turn against Israel she'll be embarrassed enough to do something. It's not a hopeful position to shoot for, but it is technically better than the alternative, and there other issues at play where the difference is not so limited.
The campaign has been changing its tone depending on audience. In places like Michigan they're doing this, but outside seing districts they've been banging the war drums for Israel.
So the lack of faith in the messaging isn't without warrant.
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3rd party voters: "I'm not voting for Harris until she condemns the Gaza war!"
Harris: *says she condemns the Gaza war*
3rd party voters: *desperate scrambling sounds to find something else to be a single issue contrarian*
I'm really hoping I'm wrong about that, but I'm seeing it on this thread.
Have you been to a protest or talked to pro-Palestinian voices. The demand has always been to stop weapons shipments to Israel, even before October 7th. This isn't moving the goal posts, the goal posts have been there for decades, it's just both parties have and continue to ignore them.
I mean for context something like 70 million early voters already cast their ballot, so this quite literally cannot change their vote and that number is roughly half of the entire votes cast the entire last election. So in all likelihood, roughly half the people you're mad at can't react at all because of how long she waited.
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You're still not saying the magic words harris. Repeat after me: 'i will enforce american laws regarding war crimes until israel obeys international laws regarding war crimes and genocide'. You've waited too long and i doubt you'll do it before you need to tomorrow.
Its easy to see how she's more focused on the israel hostages than Palestinian population, a group who as our own diplomatic core has informed the admin shes a part of, will be returned in a ceasefire agreement. Hamas already agreed to return them, at least before israel starting offing those leaders first. Only israel is the issue.
Actually I'm pretty sure you just demanded that she look into the disagreement in Israel. Which she did, so you owe her now. Stop changing your demands! It's your fault they ignore the left. /s
child, shes well aware of whats going on in gaza. they, the biden admin, knows exactly the situation and they know its a genocide. They've known most of this year. I certainly didn't demand she look into it. I'm demanding she apply the US law as written to israel.
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Step 1: FOLLOW US LAW AND STOP GIVING THEM WEAPONS
Let's see if she ever gets this far. I am not holding my breath
Literal last minute shilling bruh
If she had said this once like even 2 weeks ago, people might have actually listened
Oh, a candidate said what they'd do in office?
R - he tells it like it is
D - shilling
Got it. Blocked, troll.
Never even mentioned Republicans.
My point is she spent her entire campaign ignoring this problem until literally the last minute.
People already voted on Sunday in Michigan. Even if you think this would have changed people's minds, she could have said it 2 days ago and still had more effect.
Bullshit, she's been saying basically that same sequence of lines, starting with the convention speech (maybe even before but I don't remember), at rallies and in some interviews. I think her saying it with protesters shouting at the rally made the media hype it up a bit more, but what she said yesterday is pretty much the same lines she's used on the topic the whole campaign.
The only variation has been the first few words. She started out with "Now is the time to ...blah blah blah" to "I will work hard to ... blah blah" to now "I will do everything in my power to ...blah blah". After that intro phrase, the rest of the lines have been the same every time.
Finally some positive words now for acting on it, if she gets a chance.
In a presidential democracy she has all the power if she wants it.
All the one-issue voters: uhh... what now?
It's hilarious how libs think this is any different from what genocide joe has been saying for the past year.
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Nothing? This is nothing new from her. Its no commitment..its vaguely worded trash.
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