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imagine being Palestinian right now.
having a long and continued squabble over who owns that land that israel sits upon, both israel and palestine being the same fucking thing biblically.
Britain shows up, goes "fucking lol, this shits mine now losers" and then shits out israel, nearly a century of war goes by, neither side ceding literally anything to the other, except for Palestine because they're bad at fighting against a well supported and funded military, i wonder why. And then continuing to engage in that conflict until quite literally nothing is left of you as a state or nation.
and so you show up to america, for whatever reason, you've probably lived there most if not all of your life, you see this shit happening, and the US supporting israel, and your first thought is, "surely harassing politicans will fix the problem" or even "man surely if i just call the public genociding nazis, they'll finally stop killing my people"
like my brother in christ, go vote.
For which politician. The ones that AIPAC has either bought off or scared that they will spend endless money against any position you run for on your competitor at the slightest move that they do not approve of. The Scary Orange Man who will make things worse or the party of the Scary White Man who is literally funding the genocide of your people, the third party candidates which will get you attacked from both sides, or choose not to vote at all for a protest.
And if you look they say "They won't vote for Genocide" not "They won't vote for Kamala if she changes her position on Israel and its lunatic right wing government". But they won't vote for someone who is killing their families.
for literally any of them, it's a given right of yours to hold. You could vote for mr shit farts if you so pleased. That would be a bad ballot, but you could still do it. You can also vote locally as well, there are many options here to help this situation.
this is also not quite true, it's partially representative though.
classic single issues voting experience really.