The past two months of strong polls and good vibes for the Democrats likely won’t last if Israel starts a regional war and drags in the US. The only solution is for Joe Biden to stop sending Israel weapons.

Everything seems to be coming up Democrats. The party is still riding its wave of excitement over its “brat” new nominee, Donald Trump and his campaign are floundering, and their candidate has just widened her lead over him after a debate most everyone agreed Trump lost badly. What could possibly stop this kind of momentum?

Another dumb, disastrous quagmire in the Middle East could.

In their euphoric haze, Democrats and the Kamala Harris campaign have been doing their best the past two months to more or less ignore the ongoing, bloody tumult in the Middle East, which was already on the brink of tipping over into a region-wide war back when Joe Biden was still on the ticket.

The most dramatic sign was yesterday’s rash of Hezbollah pager explosions, which wounded 2,800 people across Lebanon and killed twelve, including two young children, and which an aide to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to take credit for in a tweet

If Democrats are hoping Harris might get a rally-round-the-flag bump in the event of US troops getting killed by Hezbollah or Iranian proxies, and so possibly shift public opinion in favor of war, they should be careful.

If the wanton slaughter in Gaza isn’t enough to make them cut Israel off, then Harris and the Democrats might want to at least think about their own political futures and take some similar advice: You might prefer to ignore the chance of regional war, but a regional war won’t ignore you.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    152·
    2 months ago

    That’s unfortunately not the case. It’s clear much of the US news media and corporate and political establishment is entirely supportive of Israel at all costs. If the Biden Admin cuts Israel off completely, there would be an immediate, coordinated campaign waged by many of these organizations to take down the Harris campaign and support Trump, which would be incredibly potent.

    A better move would be to win this election first and then make policy change. We cannot have Trump in the Whitehouse

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      2 months ago

      If you claim israel fully controls America what’s the difference between Biden and Trump?

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        If you claim Israel fully controls America

        I didn’t

        what’s the difference between Biden and Trump

        A metric shit-ton on just about every single policy