What are Kamala Harris's views on Israel, and will pro-Palestinian "uncommitted" voters prefer her over Joe Biden?
  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    3 months ago

    All she has to do is tell Benny to fuck off and not give him weapons. Thats it. Nobody is asking for a miracle, everyone is demanding to stop enabling and abetting.

    • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
      9·
      3 months ago

      She cannot do that unfortunately. She’s vice president in a government that explicitly doesn’t do that, and she can’t openly deviate while running.

        • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
          2·
          3 months ago

          From a foreign policy perspective it’s extremely undesirable to have the President and VP provide different messages. Who should (foreign) diplomats listen to? Who should be send to peace negotiations if different members of the cabinet have different positions? I don’t think something like that has ever happened.

          • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 months ago

            From a foreign policy perspective it’s extremely undesirable to have the President and VP provide different messages.

            Harris is not the Secretary of State. This isn’t the GWB administration where the VP is calling the shots,either. Harris wields no power regarding foreign policy. There is no good reason for her to stick with Biden’s policy on this.

            There’s certainly excuses and bad reasons, though.

  • would_be_appreciated@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Yes, she can, or already has won them back. “Uncommitted” was primarily about sending a message, and it was effective at doing that. I would be surprised if the majority of them planned on not voting for Biden, and now Harris, in the general.

    • Sundial@lemm.ee
      8·
      3 months ago

      They’re still saying they might vote uncommitted. They want Kamala to stop sending arms to Israel but so far she has refused.

  • YeetPics@mander.xyz
    1·
    3 months ago

    Nobody can, so nobody should care.

    Biden≠Harris, never has been.

    If they want to project guilt onto people without considering the equal yet opposite outcome their opinions are moot.

    Not being able to accept that two things can be wrong at once and disregarding the potential possibilities seem to be VERY popular this election year LOL.

    • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      You get she’s still the Vice President of the Biden Administration right?

      The Uncommitted Movement, anti-genocide protestors, want a change in the Administration from the unconditional military support supplying a genocide, to a conditional support that forces Israel to abide by International Laws and not commit genocide.

      Harris has the opportunity to pivot on Gaza and make it a partisan issue. That’s a major way to win some critical swing states. It’s good policy and good politics.