Harris' remarks followed a meeting she held with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington Thursday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17956865

‘It is time for this war to end,’ Harris tells Netanyahu; ‘I will not be silent’ on Palestinian suffering

  •  prole   ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English
    18•8 months ago

    It’s almost as if politicians (particularly at this level) often need to walk a rhetorical tightrope so as to avoid alienating large swathes of voters. Crazy.

      •  Phoenixz   ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 
        4•8 months ago

        I love how simple people here think this is. Just say fuck Israel, go full force against them and when Trump wins we will… Wait, what?oh yeah, now we don’t get the votes we need to win and now Trump wins and now Trump will make it exponentially worse for Gaza and Ukraine and the entire fucking world.

        It. Is. Not. That. Easy.

        Let her win first, shall we, please? Pretty please? Once she wins you can throw all this anti genocide stuff on her head but until then please realize that she’ll have to appease large groups of people who are so pro Israel that they ignore the genocide.

        •  prole   ( @prole@beehaw.org ) English
          1•7 months ago

          Exactly. Also, it’s interesting that these people are nowhere to be found at primary time, nor do they ever seem to give a shit about anything below Presidential election.

          If they actually give a shit about electing progressives, they wouldn’t disappear for four years.

    •  Phoenixz   ( @phoenixz@lemmy.ca ) 
      2•8 months ago

      This. I say this every time and somehow it doesn’t help, nobody gets it. Politics, any politics, is walking tightropes. Even dictators have to walk certain tightropes to not get toppled within minutes. Democracies are so much worse (and thus better, in the end) when it comes to tightropes everywhere

      •  BlorpTheHagraven   ( @BlorpTheHagraven@startrek.website ) English
        1•8 months ago

        So, this “tightrope walk” gives politicians a free pass to lie to voters about what they intend to do once they’re in office? How is that fair? No one is able to make an informed decision that way.

        How can deceiving citizens possibly improve the quality of leadership in any country, democratic or otherwise? It’s called manipulation and that’s what you do when you don’t want the other party to have a choice in the matter. It’s what you do when you want to seize control.