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CMV: As an Arab, Im not voting for biden anymore.

I am a long term lurker, but I wanted to share my thought about all the hype suourding 'a no-vote for Biden means a vote for Trump'. The reason I won't be voting for Joe Biden is his blind and ultimate loyalty to Israel. I understand this is highly sensitive and controversial. I am an average Arab American with no expertise in politics, military, media, writing, or technology. Forgive me if I say something dumb. I am not alone in my decision to not vote for Joe Biden, so many Muslims, Arabs, and young people have started to call him Genocide Joe. This is not a simple issue, and I am not a single-issue voter, but I cannot ignore the atrocities committed by the Israeli government that are ignored by Biden, his administration, and other dems in Gaza. I have nothing against Jews and Israel, and I respect their right to exist and coexist peacefully. However, I strongly condemn the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, which Biden supports financially and militarily.

One of the main reasons I am not voting for Biden is his hypocrisy and double standards on human rights. He was rightfully quick to condemn Russia for its aggression in Ukraine. However, he turned a blind eye to the much worse and documented violence against civilians, journalists, health workers, UN workers, and religious minorities in Gaza. He ignored the use of white phosphorus, a banned chemical weapon, and the bombing of schools, UN shelters, hospitals, mosques, churches, and safe passages. He also ignored the worldwide and domestic calls for a ceasefire, and vetoed the UN Security Council resolution that demanded an end to the hostilities and additionally repeatedly affirmed himself as a zionist. Not only that, but he even gave the green light to Israel to continue the destruction of life and property in Gaza, by approving and sending many more and weapons and ammunition.

Another reason I am not voting for Biden is his indifference and complicity in the increased settlers’ violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Innocent Palestinians are being literally murdered, evicted, and harassed by extremist settlers, who are backed by the Israeli army and government. Biden has done nothing to stop or prevent these crimes, or to hold the perpetrators accountable. He has also failed to support the legitimate rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people, such as self-determination, statehood, and sovereignty. He has sided with Israel on every major issue.

Biden lacks moral courage and political will to stand for justice and peace. They need to do something, but they are afraid of the powerful pro-Israel lobby and the electoral consequences. They value their own power and interests more than the lives and dignity of millions of oppressed and suffering people. Likewise, they are willing to sacrifice the principles and values that they claim to uphold and defend, such as democracy, human rights, and international law. They are also betraying the trust and support of millions of Americans, especially Muslims, Arabs, young people and even thousands of American Jews, who voted for them in the hope of change and progress and live in battle ground states.

In conclusion, I voted for him in 2020, but have decided not to vote for Joe Biden, because I cannot support a candidate who is complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, who is hypocritical and indifferent to their plight, and who is cowardly and selfish in his policies. I am not alone in this decision, and I am not voting for Trump or the Republicans either. And yes, Trump and the republicans are a lot worse for the Palestinians, but at least they are honest and open about it. In comparison, Dems are wolf in sheep's clothing. I hope that Biden and the Democrats lose the election and learn from their mistakes. I hope that they will realize that they cannot ignore or alienate their constituents, especially the minorities and young people, who have legitimate grievances and demands.

Edit: I under that the republicans and trump are worse. But realistically for palestinians, they are the same. How is Biden legitimately different from trump? He is sending more arms and missiles that will be dropped on palestinian children. He is also trying to send navy to Yemen since they are stopping ships from getting into israel until food and medicine can enter. Biden is willing to essentially go to war on Israelis behalf.

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[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As a leftist, after reviewing decades of Biden's career, vs Trump's, I genuinely believed Trump was less bad than Biden. Not that I voted for either of them, rather, just that Biden is in fact that bad. He's everything that your boomer uncle believed about Jimmy Carter to be true.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago

I think it's a wash. They're both bad in their own horrible ways and trying to weigh them against each other is pointless.

But, I'm beginning to suspect that Trump is useful in that he deranges the libs. He heightens the contradictions and forces libs to confront problems head-on, whereas with Biden as president they're content with ignoring all but the most blatant of horrors. Even then, they're still willing to vote for the supposed lesser-of-two-genocides to stop Trump (and act like they're better people for it too!). If Trump was president and his policy was identical to Biden on the Zionist Entity (and it probably would be) they would actually react by becoming anti-Zionist.

[-] Wakmrow@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

I agree. Got into a lot of Twitter arguments in 2020. Everything they "dislike" about Trump's policies I can point to Biden actually effectively creating laws worse than Trump's policies.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

Not living in the USA I preferred Trump's isolationism

[-] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

I preferred that he opened up dialog with North Korea and it seems to have helped ease tensions. Trump was the only one who could do it, the establishment would never. I think that might be his one redeeming thing. On the other hand, he killed that Iran general and backed out of the nuclear deal, so I guess it was a wash.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Such a child tantrum on national level. They brayed for attacking Iran for months, everyone was convinced they will start a war, but in that time Iran proven they can and will defend themselves by shooting down the ultra expensive most modern USA drone, and you could observe like in literally 2 days Trump shut up, talking about war with Iran stopped and they even sacked Bolton. But Murica HAVE to have the last word so they murdered Soleimani.

[-] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Don't forget that he started the retreat from Afghanistan

[-] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame

it was also nice for our reactionaries to be distracted by chugging the yankee coolaid and ignoring the extremely minor gains our leftists made

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Trump is also more easily distracted, more impulsively oppositional to people around him, has far less knowledge and experience with running American empire, and barely cares about it anyway. Just by being a dumb petulant asshole to everyone he throws sand in the gears, and by doing it in public he accelerates America's loss of face at a rate that Mr Harm Reduction had to support a genocide to exceed.

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