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HOW CAN I VOTE FOR KAMALA HARRIS IF SHE SUPPORTS ISRAEL’S WAR? HERE
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Bernie Sanders
October 30, 2024
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_ Trump says Netanyahu is doing a good job and Biden is holding him
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Kamala Harris, Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0)

 

I understand that there are millions of Americans who disagree
with Joe Biden
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war in Gaza. I am one of them.

While Israel had a right to defend itself against the horrific Hamas
terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people
and took 250 hostages, it did not have the right to wage an all-out
war against the entire Palestinian people.

It did not have the right to kill 42,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of
whom were children, women and the elderly, or injure over 100,000
people in Gaza [[link removed]]. It did not
have the right to destroy Gaza’s infrastructure
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housing and healthcare systems. It did not have the right to bomb
every one of Gaza’s 12 universities. It did not have the right to
block humanitarian aid, causing massive malnutrition in children and,
in fact, starvation.

Yes, I think Democrats are complicit in genocide. But Trump would be
far worse
Wajahat Ali

And that is why I am doing everything I can to block US military aid
and offensive weapons sales to the rightwing extremist Netanyahu
government in Israel. And I know that many of you share those
feelings. And some of you are saying, “How can I vote for Kamala
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supporting this terrible war?” And that is a very fair question.

And let me give you my best answer. And that is that even on this
issue, Donald Trump
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friends are worse. In the Senate and in Congress Republicans have
worked overtime to block humanitarian aid to the starving children in
Gaza. The president and vice-president both support getting as much
humanitarian aid into Gaza as soon as possible.

Trump has said that Netanyahu is doing a good job and that Biden is
holding him back. He has suggested that the Gaza
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beachfront property for development. It is no wonder Netanyahu prefers
to have Donald Trump in office.

We cannot sit this election out. Trump has to be defeated

But even more importantly, and this I promise you, after Harris wins
we will, together, do everything we can to change US policy toward
Netanyahu – including an immediate ceasefire, the return of all
hostages, a surge of massive humanitarian aid, the stopping of settler
attacks on the West Bank, and the rebuilding of Gaza for the
Palestinian people.

And let me be clear. We will have, in my view, a much better chance of
changing US policy with Harris than with Trump, who is extremely close
to Netanyahu and sees him as a like-minded, rightwing extremist ally.

But let me also say this, and I deal with this every single day as a
US senator. As important as Gaza is, and as strongly as many of us
feel about this issue, it is not the only issue at stake in this
election.

If Trump wins, women in this country will suffer an enormous setback
and lose the ability to control their own bodies. That is not
acceptable.

If Trump wins, to be honest with you, the struggle against the
climate crisis is over
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While virtually every scientist who has studied the issue understands
that the climate crisis is real and an existential threat to our
country and the world, Trump believes it is a “hoax”. And if the
United States, the largest economy in the world, stops transforming
our energy system away from fossil fuel, every other country –
China, Europe, all over the world, they will do exactly the same
thing. And God only knows the kind of planet we will leave to our kids
and future generations.

If Trump wins, at a time of enormous income and wealth inequality, he
will demand even more tax breaks for the very richest people in our
country, while cutting back on programs that working families
desperately need. The rich will only get richer, while the minimum
wage will remain at $7.25 an hour, and millions of our fellow workers
will continue to earn starvation wages.

Did you all see the recent Trump rally at Madison Square Garden
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Well, I did, and what I can tell you is that as a nation, as all of
you know, we have struggled for years against impossible odds to try
to overcome all forms of bigotry – whether it is racism, whether
it’s sexism, whether it’s homophobia, whether it’s xenophobia,
you name it.

We have tried to fight against bigotry, but that is exactly what we
saw on display at that unbelievable Trump rally. It was not a question
of speakers getting up there and disagreeing with Kamala Harris on the
issues. That wasn’t the issue at all. They were attacking her simply
because she was a woman and a woman of color. Extreme vulgar sexism
and racism. Is that really the kind of America that we can allow?

So let me conclude by saying this. This is the most consequential
election in our lifetimes. Many of you have differences of opinion
with Harris on Gaza. So do I. But we cannot sit this election out.
Trump has to be defeated. Let’s do everything we can in the next
week to make sure that Kamala Harris is our next president.

_Bernie Sanders [[link removed]] is a US senator, and
chair of the health education labor and pensions committee. He
represents the state of Vermont, and is the
longest-serving independent
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Congress_

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