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Biden Wants Arms Deals With Israel to Be Done in Complete Secrecy, Without Congress (truthout.org)

submitted 10 months ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] moonlit2107@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

I'm not voting for this man a second time. No more harm reduction. I'm not degrading myself by voting for a genocide enabler.

[-] fiercekitten@lemm.ee 28 points 10 months ago

You getting downvoted for refusing to vote for Biden for a very valid reason is proof of how broken our two-party system is. This is why every state needs to pass ranked-choice voting. Maine did it and proved it could be done, and now they get to vote for who they actually /want/ without having their vote “spoiled”.

Everyone in the US should be working to get ranked-choice voting in their state.

[-] 10nica@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

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[-] AnonTwo@kbin.social 23 points 10 months ago

Whoever you vote for will support Israel. US ally and all.

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[-] Zorque@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago

Wee! We get full harm because you only want perfection at all times with no effort at all! Woohoo!

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[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Spoiler alert: This would have most likely happened regardless of the D or R next to the president’s name on the ballot.

There’s two reasons I could see the US supporting Israel regardless of who’s in charge: the logical one because it has historical precedent is that the US wants Israel as a buffer for Russia due to it’s strategic location in the Middle-East, and the other reason is more conspiracy theory but I wouldn’t be surprised if the US can somehow get access to Palestine’s oil if Israel beats the shit out of the Hamas.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 10 months ago

Or third, Israel has invested a lot in American politics after Eisenhower used American economic power against Israeli allies in the Suez Crisis, seeing that it needed to be on good terms with at least one super power and the USA seemed like the more natural fit. This includes going as far as supporting any primary challenger that pledges Israeli support.

It was either that or go the way of its apartheid nuclear buddy, South Africa.