“To those people who are saying, ‘Well, I can’t support Harris because she disagrees [with] Trump on that issue’ … he will be closer to Netanyahu,” Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Sanders said he thinks Vice President Harris can be moved “on that issue” of the Israel-Hamas war.

Harris has called for a cease-fire deal and pushed for the war in Gaza to end, but she faces scrutiny from both sides — from people who want to see Hamas defeated and those who call for the end of the war in Gaza.

“So, if we are able to elect Harris, I think we’re going to have an opportunity to move her on that issue, to make it clear, we cannot allow children in Gaza to starve to death,” Sanders said. “She will be open to that. I doubt that Trump will.”

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    Oh good point, I guess those Palestinians forgot all about the bombing and dead children and digging out their families when they said they prefer Harris to Trump.

    You ain’t no fucking ally, so don’t pretend to be one. Responding to “Palestinians seem to prefer Harris” with “they’ll be ecstatic that a brown woman is bombing them” is infantilising them and their opinions. It’s disgusting.

    Just say it, “anticolonialist”. Say what you really mean, and that you know better than all of us brown people about what’s best for us. Go on, continue to deride our difficult choices and tell us how much better you know than us.

    You aren’t living up to your username, and I hope that makes you second guess things. As a brown guy you’re no better than a colonialist in my eyes. And I think my people have had enough of you.

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          rebuked Netanyahu.

          Which is as meaningless as her calls for a ceasefire while still supporting endless money and weapons

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            You haven’t stopped it anymore than Kamala, get serious and go show us all how it’s done, chump.

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                Not at all, the vice president has like no powers or responsibilities. The most significant things they can do is break a tie in the Senate.

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                  Biden and Harris have confirmed she has been instrumental in everything Biden has done. And shes said she wouldn’t have done a thing different. This is her genocide as much as his

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                    Pop quiz, what was the reason for Trump’s first impeachment?

                    Halting money that Congress had allocated to a foreign country.

                    Biden and Harris have been calling for restraint and cease fires non-stop since the beginning here.

                    Give Harris Congress, and the she can put a stop to this shit.

                    Vote for Trump, or convince people to not support Harris, and the genocide will be accelerated.

                    That’s it. Those are the choices.

                    And if Harris wins the presidency but loses Congress. Well, that’s still better than Trump. At that point we’d be in for two to four years of nothing getting done either way.

                    Need I remind you that a speaker at yesterday’s Madison Square Garden Trump rally claimed that “Palestinians are taught to kill us at two years old”.

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            Actual Palestinians didn’t find it meaningless, apparently. And if they can believe it, so can we.

            Of everyone, people in Gaza have the most right to be cynical. Yet, they aren’t. If they have hope, who are we to say their hope is wrong?