isn’t it categorically a tacit endorsement and normalization of genocide
You are presenting this as an either/or choice, and completely ignoring the alternative if we don’t support Biden. And abstention is a vote for Trump. So let me remind you of a few things about Trump that you are overlooking:
–While in office, Trump’s policy on Israel and Palestine was to do whatever Netanyahu asked. The joke of a “peace deal” brokered by Kushner was a naked attempt to impose an Israeli diktat on the Palestinians. So any assumption that Trump would restrain Israel in any way, even as much as Biden’s weak attempts, is laughable.
–Trump committed an act of war, aligned with Israeli strategic goals, when he assassinated Iranial General Soleimani, who was a member of the faction within the Iranian government most favorable to negotiation with the West. Fortunately, the Iranians didn’t take the bait.
–Trump enthusiastically supported the Saudi genocidal war against the Yemenis, and vastly increased weapons sales to that murdering psychopath MBS, who was also responsible for starting the aggression against Yemen.
–Trump surrendered in Afghanistan and cravenly abandoned the Afghans who had supported the West’s campaign against the Taliban, leading to massacres within the country and a refugee crisis. He released all Taliban prisoners, destroying what little bargaining power the US still had, and cynically set the date of final withdrawal to occur after Biden got into office, then screeched about how it was all Biden’s fault that there was shit in the shit sandwich that Trump had made.
–During the Covid epidemic, Trump deliberately withheld needed supplies and vaccines to some states, with intent to cause a higher death toll in states that hadn’t supported him in the 2016 election. The withholding of equipment was also straight-up extortion. Between the incompetence of the response, the malice of the attempted bio-warfare against American people, and the corruption, it has been estimated that half a million American deaths from Covid can be attributed to Trump. How’s that for genocide?
–The border family separation policy as Trump implemented it was another act of genocide according to international law.
And now let’s look at what your golden boy will do next.
–He will sell out the Ukrainians just as shamelessly as he sold out the Afghans. That will lead to a bloodbath in Ukraine and a refugee crisis in Europe on a scale unseen since WW2. There is even a chance that Trump will take Russia’s side in its imperialist aggression, and in subsequent attacks on other smaller countries that got the Russian boot off their necks when the Warsaw Pact and USSR collapsed. He has made excuses for Putin during the campaign, and his servility to the Russians has been one of the few consistent patterns in his otherwise erratic life.
So here’s a scorecard:
Palestine: Neither good, Trump worse.
Everything else: Trump far worse.
And, as I said, a low turnout favors Trump. So the imperfect but far less morally odious choice is to vote for Biden. There’s a slim chance Biden will eventually take even-handed action on Israel/Palestine. There is no chance that Trump will ever take any position based on morality or human decency, since those concepts are unknown to him.
You are presenting this as an either/or choice, and completely ignoring the alternative if we don’t support Biden. And abstention is a vote for Trump. So let me remind you of a few things about Trump that you are overlooking:
–While in office, Trump’s policy on Israel and Palestine was to do whatever Netanyahu asked. The joke of a “peace deal” brokered by Kushner was a naked attempt to impose an Israeli diktat on the Palestinians. So any assumption that Trump would restrain Israel in any way, even as much as Biden’s weak attempts, is laughable.
–Trump committed an act of war, aligned with Israeli strategic goals, when he assassinated Iranial General Soleimani, who was a member of the faction within the Iranian government most favorable to negotiation with the West. Fortunately, the Iranians didn’t take the bait.
–Trump enthusiastically supported the Saudi genocidal war against the Yemenis, and vastly increased weapons sales to that murdering psychopath MBS, who was also responsible for starting the aggression against Yemen.
–Trump surrendered in Afghanistan and cravenly abandoned the Afghans who had supported the West’s campaign against the Taliban, leading to massacres within the country and a refugee crisis. He released all Taliban prisoners, destroying what little bargaining power the US still had, and cynically set the date of final withdrawal to occur after Biden got into office, then screeched about how it was all Biden’s fault that there was shit in the shit sandwich that Trump had made.
–During the Covid epidemic, Trump deliberately withheld needed supplies and vaccines to some states, with intent to cause a higher death toll in states that hadn’t supported him in the 2016 election. The withholding of equipment was also straight-up extortion. Between the incompetence of the response, the malice of the attempted bio-warfare against American people, and the corruption, it has been estimated that half a million American deaths from Covid can be attributed to Trump. How’s that for genocide?
–The border family separation policy as Trump implemented it was another act of genocide according to international law.
And now let’s look at what your golden boy will do next.
–He will sell out the Ukrainians just as shamelessly as he sold out the Afghans. That will lead to a bloodbath in Ukraine and a refugee crisis in Europe on a scale unseen since WW2. There is even a chance that Trump will take Russia’s side in its imperialist aggression, and in subsequent attacks on other smaller countries that got the Russian boot off their necks when the Warsaw Pact and USSR collapsed. He has made excuses for Putin during the campaign, and his servility to the Russians has been one of the few consistent patterns in his otherwise erratic life.
So here’s a scorecard:
Palestine: Neither good, Trump worse. Everything else: Trump far worse.
And, as I said, a low turnout favors Trump. So the imperfect but far less morally odious choice is to vote for Biden. There’s a slim chance Biden will eventually take even-handed action on Israel/Palestine. There is no chance that Trump will ever take any position based on morality or human decency, since those concepts are unknown to him.