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Bernie Sanders to voters skipping presidential election over Israel: ‘Trump is even worse’
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It's not just politics, it's a rule of law. We have passed in the past under different administrations laws requiring funding to the Israeli state. Only via our legal process can we undo that. Now there are some laws that allow the President to suspend funding that has been legally appropriated, but those only go so far.
It's a will of Congress and the understanding that we are a nation of laws, that money keeps funneling towards Israel. But at the same time there are some bending of the laws via creative justification that allows us to setup a floating pier and deliver supplies to the Palestinians.
And Israel doesn't want aid being delivered by the United States because at the same time it allows them to begin collecting evidence against Israel's current abuse of human rights.
There has to be an understanding that there is a process by which an administration has to follow. It's dumb we have that process, I won't deny that, but until Congress gets off it's collective ass and change that, we have to follow that process. Otherwise, just doing whatever opens the door for folks to do whatever in the opposite direction as well and have zero recourse.
It's not acceptable but at the same time we can have two takes to it. We either follow our laws or we don't. Everything that has created this situation, that didn't happen overnight. The laws that provide unquestionable aid to Israel, those weren't passed in the last four years. It takes time to undo those things. Now that does provide a means for innocent people to die and you have every right to be disgusted by it. I will absolutely not tell you, that your opinion is incorrect. It's dumb that we've put ourselves into this position.
But that said, absent any system, this "I no longer care about politics", the ONLY thing that will do is ensure the complete and effective eradication of these people. The "I no longer care about politics" stance is synonymous with the "I don't care if these innocent people are wiped from this Earth."
This is a difficult conflict and it's wild that so many people toss their hands into the air and shout "I don't care anymore!!" the second the conflict actually gets into one of it's really difficult phases. If this phase of the conflict troubles you, you are not an ally for any means of protecting innocents that you think you are. Protection of people's lives is dirty ass work, if the messiness of the politics of this troubles you, you wouldn't be able to save anyone anyway. It may come as a surprise to many here, but humanitarian crisis like this are messy affairs, shit is complex, and nobody ever walks away hands clean. Who knew the world was like this?
People seem to forget that our government was intentionally created to be hard to change.
I disagree. I care very much about innocent lives, but I don't care much for a political system which views those lives as a necessary price to pay for diplomacy.