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Oddly enough, some of the people who survived long enough to see West Germany wanted there to be a monarchy established there...
Voting against your interests, an American tradition
Harris is carrying out a genocide against Arabs in Palestine, just fyi.
And Trump has said he wants it to go even farther.
What's farther than genocide? This was yesterday,
A mother from #Jabalia says: “They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the wailing of mothers.
“After that, the soldiers came and started throwing the children towards the mothers, and whoever caught a child was ordered to carry him and move away quickly, with no guarantee that the child would be their own.
“Many mothers carried children who were not their own, and were forced to leave with them, leaving their own children in the hands of other mothers. This marked the beginning of a new chapter of suffering, with mothers searching for their children in the arms of other women, trying to calm the children they held until they found their real mothers.“
"President Donald Trump accused President Joe Biden of abandoning Israel after the incumbent said he would not supply the country with weapons it could use to invade Rafah."
Trump wouldn't offer even the token pushback that Biden has, and would likely ramp up the payments and weapons supplied to Israel.
When he was president before, he already massively cut aid to Gaza, and would probably do so again.
That's how you go farther
My fellow voter, Biden didn't hold back on Israel anywhere except in the imagination of the media
50,000 dead after one year is "not holding back?"
You sound hysterical, as you mou must know
You have to be a special kind of stupid to go for the candidate who hates brown-skinned people and who is backed by money that backs Jewish interests in the middle east because they think it will force Jesus to come down from his cloud quicker. If these Arab Americans think trump will help Palestine or Lebanon they are fucking idiots.
How many Arabs have you talked to about your theory that they're stupid? Democrats are literally exterminating them.
Democrats are literally exterminating
Thank you for revealing what you are so I can block you
"Why would Muslims support Lyin' Kamala Harris when she embraces Muslim hating Liz Cheney, a total loser, whose father brought years of war, and death, to the Middle East???" - Donald Trump
Harris isn't going to alienate 300,000 Jewish voters in PA for 20,000 Arab voters in MI.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/politics/jewish-voters-pennsylvania-election/index.html
"The American Jewish Population Project at Brandeis University estimates there are about 300,000 Jewish voters in the Keystone State. When you consider that Joe Biden won Pennsylvania by less than 82,000 votes in 2020, and Trump by about 44,000 votes in 2016, the margins matter."
The vast majority of Jews want the conflict to end, something that can be done by a US president with a phonecall.
Harris declaring that she'll end the war would be a boost across this demographic, and I'd assume many others.
Could be done with a phone call, if Bibi gave two shits about what we think, and he doesn't. He really, really doesn't.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/22/opinion/gaza-israel-biden-netanyahu.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje3zl0dq2ko
https://www.foreignaffairsreview.com/home/why-netanyahu-doesnt-want-a-hostage-deal
The phone call must include the magic words, "or no more weapons"
They don't need our weapons to shoot little kids in the head. Bullets are cheap.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war
It doesn't matter if we cut off the supply or not, they don't need our weapons.
Okay now turn in your brain and use it on this nonsense article....
How can a doctor know the identity and motive of the shooter by looking at a wound?
Caliber and location of the wound. Ballistics is a science.
Plus, it's not like anyone else is shooting Palestinian children.
Hamas rules Gaza by assassination and fear. They kill other Palestinians with guns and other things all the time. They shoot parents in front of their kids and vice verse to stay in power. The Iranian immamate and Qatari royals don't pay people to post about it online all day, though, so Al Jazeera doesn't write about it and Guardian doesn't retweet about it, and that's the truth of the matter. The evidence is staring you in the face.
Doesn't the idea of trained, uniformed soldiers, subject to a very robust, open legal system, as well as a military code of justice enforced by courts martial, sniping kids in the head for sport sound unbelievable? I posit that not only does it sound unbelievable, but that is actually is unbelievable; that if you were being rational, you should not and would not believe it.
No, no doctor anywhere in the world can determine the identity and motive of an individual from a bullet wound. This article's presumption to the contrary defies obvious logic and physics. Think about it for five seconds. Terminal ballistics has nothing to do with identifying the shooter or motive.
In no court of law in America would these doctors testimony be admitted as identification evidence or to explain motive, and you must know this to be true. Should read more critically, slow down.
I'm sorry, but reality absolutely disagrees:
We have eyewitnesses to Israeli snipers shooting kids, it is NOT Hamas doing this.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/08/28/west-bank-spike-israeli-killings-palestinian-children
"Q. Wait, you’re saying that children in Gaza are being shot by snipers?
A. Definitively. I have two children that I have photographs of, that were shot so perfectly in their chest I couldn’t put my stethoscope over their heart more accurately
. And directly on the side of the head, in the same child, no toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper, and they are dead center shots."
To say nothing of other innocents:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/09/israel-snipers-shot-killing-civilians-west-bank/
Ridiculous quotes. The doctors in Gaza certainly have strong imaginations, that or magical powers.
Unfortunately, wild conjecture and speculation by people soliciting donations is not evidence.
Tell me this, how much personal experience do YOU have with sniper victims? None? Yeah, forgive me for taking the word of a medical expert over an internet expert.
None.
This isn't about taking the doctor's medical opinion over someone without a medical degree and practical experience. Read the doctor's own words. What he is saying does not follow or make logical sense.
A doctor cannot distinguish two bullet wounds as from rounds aimed and fired by a sniper or two rounds fired by a drunk with a pistol, or by two stray bullets, or even by one stray bullet, or even by one piece of shrapnel, if it's through and through. Do you not know about bullets?
The ~~sniper~~ doctor said in his own words that his opinion was based on what cannot be described as anything other than wild speculation.
pathetic
So there a shit ton dumbass Arabs then? Do they have their heads up their ass? Seriously are we sure this isn't Russian trolls. No Arabian could Seriously think Trump will be better for them then Harris? Or is it a sexiest thing because she a woman?
A lot of Arab-Americans are Christians, who have a problematic relationship with Arab identity.
voting foreign policy so you can be evicted locally. sounds like a solid decision
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/22/trump-leading-harris-among-arab-americans-poll-suggests
Seems like cutting off your face to spite the nose but also can't trust the polls and the DNC's messaging about Israel has been dogshit so who knows.
You know what?
This is a really good point. According to the article,
the margin of error of plus or minus 5.93 percent.
Meanwhile, it also said the poll was saying,
45 percent to 43 percent
So in the extreme case, rather than being down by 2 points for Harris, it could be up for Harris by almost 4 points.
the flames are lit and gondor is calling for aid; but only tankies are answering the call.
When there are but two choices, genocide is better than GENOCIDE.
Or you can do something else and be completely irrelevant.
Check it out, a confused tankie who got the wrong memo of talking points.
Better luck next time 🤷
I can't say I'm surprised, harris has blown the narrative. but I am saddened by the fact that Arabs think turnip is a better option, I think it's a plain as day what's he thinks and plans for the next administration. I am feeling very pessimistic these days.