Proxy-Pie said:
Alright I'll respond, though the issues I'll discuss relate mostly to my country and not the US. I am Palestinian-Israeli, and the past few years have been depressing for me. Trump has been doing seemingly permanent damage to our cause, essentially taking away the most important bargaining pieces that the US has relied on in the peace talks. He doesn't even pretend to be neutral, and that's emboldened the government to do some brazen things. The settlements are accelerating, land that belonged to families for centuries is being confiscated probably more than ever before (including in my town, which is located inside Israel proper), and a bunch of other stuff. I saw this really detailed article last week about how now the government is even removing documents about atrocities during the formative years of the country: (This isn't exactly something new, but it seems to have picked up the pace recently). This hits very close to me personally, because when my grandpa was 8 years old, his uncle was killed in one of these massacres. Before the general who gave the order died last year, he confessed that it was linked to a never fulfilled plan to expel the town's residents: But guess what? Many many documents about his trial were never released, and probably won't be anytime soon. My grandpa was 8 when that happened, he's in his 70s now, and he's going to die without closure on this subject. I went on a bit of a tangent there, but basically from what I've read about Harris, her history doesn't inspire confidence that she'd be that much better on this issue. I know that it's a bipartisan thing and that she's not the only candidate who'd go soft on this, but she sounds like one of the worst among the Democrats in that regard. Sorry for the jumbled post, but it's hard to be optimistic for the future. |
Wow, thanks for sharing, that's a really interesting perspective. I hadn't looked very closely at the candidates Israel-Palestine positions, I just knew that I liked Bernie's position on it. While the problems Palestine is facing are the result of bipartisan support of the Israeli government, there are definitely a lot more dissenters on this subject in the Democratic party. There are quite a few contenders for 2020 that have the courage to stand up to the Israeli government and Netanyahu.
