r/JewsOfConscience • u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '24

Discussion Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide

It's really disturbing to me that dementia is disqualifying for Joe Biden, but him doing a genocide is not. That shows how Palestinians are viewed in America by the political class.

If only Hitler had dementia, maybe we could've gotten rid of him sooner, since the Holocaust wouldn't have been a problem for him with his domestic constituency.

What do others think?

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u/Specialist-Gur Ashkenazi Jul 22 '24

It’s just.. unsurprising. Pretty sure any US president (yes even if Jill Stein somehow managed to win) would not discontinue the genocide.

I don’t fully understand how us politics work but I know it’s not only up to the president here and I know there are ripple effect consequences for the US if the US stops supporting Israel, which is why politicians don’t do it

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u/Launch_Zealot Arab/Armenian-American Ally Jul 23 '24

The executive branch can stop weapons shipments to Israel today if they wanted to.

Congress would have a few options on the table in response, but they would have a hard time directly forcing the President to resume shipments.