“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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    Show me where they support the use of weapons for genocide. It’s cool, I can wait.

    Oh, you can’t because they don’t.

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      The weapons are unconditional. Therefore they are okay for them being used in any way Israeli regime deems fit.

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        That doesn’t mean they have stated they support genocidal action.

        My kid was going through a bad patch and asked me to hold on to his gun for him. If I had used that to rob a bank, he would not be complicit in bank robbery.

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          No, but if you had already robbed a dozen banks and then your kid gave you another gun he would definitely be complicit.

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          It’s not reasonable to argue with someone without reason. No matter what anyone says it will never change your mind. You are unwilling to call out an administration complicit in genocide. You need to reconsider your morals

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      It says it right in the article I linked

      Unless you’re saying Biden is not sending weapons for Genocide too… Surely you’re not a Genocide denier right?

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          So you’re saying you don’t believe israel is committing Genocide with American weapons?

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              Israel cannot commit Genocide without American weapons. You were linked an article proving that on r/Politics, surely you read that article.

              But even that is entirely irrelevant as the Democrats could be not-complicit in Genocide by not sending weapons to israel. Can you explain why they are sending 2,000 pound bombs to israel?

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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.