“What was very shocking was that while we were all in the room discussing and listening to people impacted by what’s happening in Gaza, we’re not certain that that message will get across to the people at the top of the party,” Khader added. “You look at the themes of the party’s convention – today, tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday – there’s nowhere where Palestinians are included in that narrative.”

While the platform condemned former President Donald Trump for refusing to “endorse the political aspirations of the Palestinian people,” it made no divergence from the status quo policy of vetoing UN Security Council resolutions this year that moved towards Palestinian statehood.

While the platform boasts of being opposed to settler violence, it makes no acknowledgment of the International Court of Justice finding the Israeli government’s occupation and illegal expansions of settlements constitute apartheid.

And to that end, while the platform condemns UN efforts that apparently “single out” Israel, and the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement for the same – apparently ignoring the historical precedent of Americans also boycotting and pushing divestment against fossil fuel companies and apartheid South Africa.

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      I’m not sure why you keep pivoting to ‘they could do it without Democrats’. But at least try not to be wrong in every example you give

      The IDF Caterpillar D9 — nicknamed Doobi (Hebrew: דובי, for teddy bear) — is a Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). It is supplied by Caterpillar Inc. and modified by the Israel Defense Forces

      Whether israel can commit Genocide without American weapons is not relevant to Democrats giving them weapons to commit Genocide with.

      If Adolf Hitler could commit Genocide without Krupp manufacturing weapons and Zyklon B it does not make Krupp “not complicit” for doing so. Sending 2000 pound bombs to an active Genocide makes

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        Because, Israel is intent on illegally occupying every square inch of Gaza and the West Bank and they don’t care how many people they have to kill to seize that territory. US policy has nothing to do with it, they do not care what we think, they’re doing it anyway.

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          America is proving the weapons and legal cover for israel to do that.

          You keep doing that magical leap to somehow the Democrats not being complicit despite them clearly being complicit in the Genocide israel is committing.

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              Okay good now you’ve admitted the the entire American administration are complicit in Genocide minus maybe 4 Democrats and Thomas Massie.

              Now the question is. what is Leahy Law and why is it not applied to israel yet? Because it sure seems there’s a lot of laws preventing sending weapons to a Genocide.

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                Because we don’t apply laws to Israel. Nobody does. It has to do with Evangelicals and end times bullshittery.

                Israel has to exist so Jesus can come back, and all that.

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                  But wait your argument is that Democrats are not complicit in Genocide.

                  So the Democrats are not complicit in Genocide because… Jesus has to come back to earth?

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                    I’m saying no US politician, for 78 years, will dare go against the Israeli lobby and the Evangelical voting block. It’s not about genocide, it never has been. It’s about money and power. Always has been.