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I believe Harris will do an arms embargo after she is voted in. But to promise this before the election would backfire from negative news coverage and the Republicans would be relentless in their attacks. Believe in her commitment to end the war and vote for her. Not voting will only help Trump win.

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She should make an offensive arms embargo part of her platform now. Blame Netanyahu for being the war criminal he is. People will appreciate the honesty and commitment to peace and justice.

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I believe this is exactly why the increase IDF attacks against the "safe havens" where innocent Palestinians have been moved to, is a direct correlation to Netanyahu's increased fear over Harris being the next president. He already knows what is coming with her presidency and he is doing as much damage and killing as he can while he can. He is a raging vindictive sadist. If she increases her rhetoric for the arms embargo, his killing will also increase. I feel in my core, Biden will never enforce an arms embargo on Netanyahu during his presidency. He will leave this for Harris to do, but she won't be able to until she can. (January 6 cannot come soon enough.) Meanwhile lets not take a chance on sabotaging her campaign like AIPAC just did to Cory Bush.

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Please consider and realize how many more entirely innocent Palestinians, aid workers and journalists will be massacred by Israel while you're waiting for Harris to take office.

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yes I thought about that too, But she is not the president and so she can only influence the president with her opinion, which so far has not changed Biden’s course. Until Harris becomes president it is a fact that it is only Biden who can stop sending armaments to Israel. Do you really think that if she promises an arms embargo while she is running her campaign it would deter Netanyahu from his path of death and destruction? I do not. But it could certainly derail her campaign…there are too many Christian Nationalists and Israeli Zionists and groups like AIPAC, whose pockets are deep and who have already influenced this campaign way too much, as evidenced by it being a close race. A racist criminal oligarch like Trump should not even be eligible to run, and yet here he is in a very real, very threatening position to become the next POTUS.

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Somebody else suggested the same thing -- that it's not her call -- but another person said that Biden would be motivated to advance any agenda she has. Either of those people could be wrong. But I still say the futzing around continues on a daily basis to get innocent people killed. I don't have a clear image of what Dems don't care about that, unless, as you say, they're worried that taking an alternate stance will cause them not to get elected. Then, they have an ethical dilemma.

And I will still say that the voters are dumb enough to fall for anything. (I know Donnie never got the support of the majority of the voters, but how did he get support from any of them? And in '15 and '16, he left us with the impression that he was an idiot, an inveterate liar, and concerned only about himself. Once he proved it beyond any doubt by '20, he got more votes than he did in '16. We're dimwits.) I think it would move them to have a decent, forceful person tell them we've been making a horrible mistake, and we're going to stop making it. NOW!

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