Hours earlier, the Palestinian father-of-two left his apartment in Deir al-Balah to collect birth certificates for his three-day-old twins – Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl. But while he was out, he said, he received a phone call that an Israeli strike had hit his home, killing the two babies, along with his wife, Jumana.

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    3 months ago

    Lot of hostility for saying we need to pressure a Presidential candidate to avoid a genocide.

    Damn straight I’m hostile to anyone arguing for voting against the only person who has any chance of deescalating this conflict. When Kamala is in the White House, pressure her all you want on Israel. Right now we need to actually make sure she makes it there, because you aren’t winning anything from a Trump presidency.

    As far as I’m concerned, anyone campaigning against Kamala right now is campaigning for genocide, because the only alternative to her is Trump. Stop trying to win the war when there’s a good chance that we’re going to lose this pivotal battle that dooms us to lose that war.

    Just shut the fuck up about Israeli aid until Kamala actually has decision making power. Until then you’re just sowing division.

    However passionate you feel about this means nothing in regards to the actual material things that need to happen first to do anything about it.

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      3 months ago

      Same thing was said when people were calling for Biden to step down. I don’t like Kamala but anything is better than Biden at this point. What a genocidal motherfucker. Anyway, pressure works, pressure is normal, that’s how politics work. So we got to keep pressuring Kamala to be better than she currently is.