In her first interview as the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN it was imperative to reach a ceasefire deal in Gaza, but made it clear that she would not alter President Joe Biden’s policy in the region.
However, when pressed on whether she would stop sending weapons to Israel she told Bash, “No, we have to get a deal done, Dana. We have to get a deal done.”
“Adopting an arms embargo against Israel’s assault on Gaza is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic move to defeat Trump and MAGA extremism. It is difficult for the Democratic candidate to champion democracy while arming Netanyahu’s authoritarian regime” reads a recent letter to Harris from the coalition Not Another Bomb.
Recent polling has repeatedly demonstrated that Democratic voters overwhelmingly support the conditioning of U.S. military aid. A Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) survey from March found that 52% of Americans want the U.S. to halt weapons shipments to Israel in order to force a ceasefire. 62% of Biden voters said “The US should stop weapons shipments to Israel until Israel discontinues its attacks on the people of Gaza,” while only 14% disagreed with the statement.
The numbers from a June CBS News poll were even higher, with more than 60% of all voters and almost 80% of Democrats saying the U.S. shouldn’t send Israel weapons.
“The real question should have been, ‘When are you going to start enforcing U.S. law as it relates to arms shipments’ because what we are doing right now, with this United States policy, is in violation of not just international law, but also of American law, “said the Arab Center’s Yousef Munayyer in an interview with Democracy Now in response to the CNN segment. “Vice-President Harris made it clear in other parts of her interview that she wants to be a prosecutor. She wants to enforce the law, but Israel is clearly getting an exception from the Harris campaign.”
80% of her base wants to stop sending weapons to Israel. Where the fuck is democracy?
80% in terms of people, but not 80% in terms of money.
Politicians are in the business of selling votes. But votes can only be sold when they are received.
As long as everyone knows that a vote for Democrat or Republican means your vote is sold to AIPAC.
80% in terms of what those people say but not 80% in terms of people who are willing act on their stated desires. So really it’s ~80% that don’t care according to their likely actions.
In history books. This is oligarchy.
Blue MAGA thinks they hold the reins
It sucks we have to vote on people instead of policies.
You mean 40% of Democrats want to decrease it, while the swing voters she needs to win an election are the most likely to support sending current or greater levels of support.
If those “swing” voters care that much about bombing gaza then they’re going to be voting for trump regardless of kamala’s position.
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They can easily declare AIPAC a foreign lobby group and prevent them spending money in out elections
They did it to RT. They can do it to Israel. And Saudi Arabia while they’re at it
Democrats will do anything to lose an election
Controlled opposition. That’s all they are.
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Quick! show them more of Walz, they like him!
Harris says she won’t stop arming Israel
If she wants Trump to win, just say that.
Jfc.
Yeah. I suspect many of us knew her stance on this issue before she said it but she really did not need to say it.
I appreciate the honesty but I do wish that she would avoid this one topic in particular. This is an issue that younger voters feel very strongly about. Younger voter turnout may not be good anyways, but I would really do my best to avoid upsetting that crowd. We’re not trying to make people go back to feeling apathetic regarding the election again.
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Right because Trump will nuke Israel and single-handedly create a Palestinian state from the mountains to the sea. So definitely vote for him.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but the last 10 months have taken place under the Biden administration.
Edit: also nobody wants that wtf are you talking about
Biden/Harris Is providing enough money and weapons for Netanyahu to finish the job. While shitlibs are terrified of what Trump MIGHT do, they are distracted from whats actually happening
What? Trump advocates to completely glass Palestine. Biden position is to not block Israel from purchasing weapons, but also not getting dragged into a war itself and in fact getting out of Middle East. This is the real reason why West pushes so hard for EVs. US wants completely out, and if Israel wants to fight then let them use their own resources. Bibi would love if US instead of providing weapons would enter and do the job for them.
God they’re so stupid.
Israel will not stop until we take away their ability to continue.
When this war ends, Netanyahu will be removed from power for his prior crimes and likely jailed. He doesn’t want that and he’s murdering Palestinians to be sure he never sees the inside of a cell.
I wish we had an actual viable option for ending this war. But my choices right now are vote for the genocide or flee the country because Trump has promised he will make my wife’s life hell day one.
I didn’t expect this at all and am deeply hurt.
I really thought the handpicked second most powerful person in the country would differ significantly in policies from the people who handpicked her.
unsurprising. good luck in November, I guess 👍
My god what an apt description for American polititcs. (Illegal) Aliens vs. (Sexual) Predators.
Illegal ‘aliens’ are NOWHERE close to sexual predators by nature.
Hell, by nature, illegal immigrants are more civil and respectable than ANY ‘natural born American’. Every metric and statistic will show you that.
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Why?
Seriously! Why!?
I don’t remotely understand this policy, and it seems that pretty much noone would vote for it if they could avoid doing so.
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We gotta make AIPAC happy or else they might stop paying for Pelosi’s yacht.
Her husband also made a pledge to, “fight antisemitism” when asked about Israel’s crimes.
Whelp, there goes that hope. Back to being angry.
At least during this period of anger we won’t have to also deal with the gnawing realization that they’re 100% going to lose. Harris may still lose, and this could certainly help her along the way, but it’s not a certainty, which is kind of better?
Checkout Trump’s history of making his “close personal friend” Bibi happy if you want to be even more angry.
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As a European citizen: is it really a possibility for any US president not to do so? (Honest question, since from Europe US’s policy is seen as supporting Israel no matter what)
Other presidents were able to restrain Israel from trying to enact a “final solution”
And it’ll be one of her worst decisions of this campaign
Oh cool, look the Democrats are trying to suppress the vote in Michigan.
Joe Biden is a mass murderer. We will never forget, never forgive.
Biden/Harris are mass murders, and that’s right.
Don’t forget about “COVID will be over in a few days” Don.
And three years into Bidens presidency, we’re having the highest numbers of infection since Trump.
Source?
It would’ve been over if we all would have just listened to him! … And all drank bleach!
He never said to drink bleach. He said to intravenously inject it.
Ah yes yes, you’re right. Even worse lmao
I don’t really understand what weapons our government is sending Isreal. Is it that we just aren’t canceling their contracts with our weapons manufacturers? Or we arent banning exports of weapons?
Our government doesn’t actually make weapons, we give contracts to companies to make them and have limits on who else can buy. Isreal doesn’t need our hand-me-downs.
Here’s a good article explaining our military aid to Israel
Thank you! That was an informative article. It’s like we are giving them Raytheon gift cards every year. This makes sense, as it’s the military industrial complex doing what it do. More blood for the blood gods, etc.
What I think is interesting from the break down is how they are supposed only use it for defense, but then when we go “hey I don’t think you are using that for defense!” We don’t stop handing out the gift cards.
Also when we were struggling to get congressional approval to give them more gift cards, we let them raid our munitions cookie jar we had been storing with them in case we needed it for the past 40 years.
It sucks, but I can understand why the US is so reluctant to give up their only long term ally in the region, who’s supported us in our unreasonable conflicts against immense global backlash. We also use them to funnel more taxpayer money to military contractors which are spread all over the US, financially benefiting many states in the process.
As always it’s all about the money.
