#if i hear some american claim their bullshit over a country that they clearly don't know i'll burst into flames

[hauntedbythenarrative]

I need people to stop romanticizing italian men

[mrsgojosatoru]

First things first, I am a Palestinian-American. So a quick bio check before you tell me that I'm not allowed to despair over the genocide of my own people would have been smart. But since you love to run your mouth, lets go cunt.

Practically no Palestinian or Palestinian in diaspora wants anyone to vote for Joe Biden. As someone who actually communicates with Palestinians, stays abreast of the news out of Palestine, and listens to what Palestinians are saying, I know that. You clearly don't do any of those things. Probably because your community is more insulated in terms of race then you claim. Or at the very least because you -- as I said in my original post -- aren't aware of the situation in Palestine.

Biden could actually halt weapons and aid to Israel, pretending he can't is WILD. Most US presidents do. Biden is to the right of George W Bush and Ronald Reagan on this issue.

Let me take some things piece by piece

And why aren't you calling out Palestine's neighbors for their culpability in refusing Palestinian refugees?

Since you don't seem to know, Palestinians neighbors won't take in Palestinian refugees unless they're guaranteed the right of return. They do not want to assist in their mass displacement. Which you seem to be cool with. I am highly critical of other Middle Eastern countries for not doing things like placing an embargo on trade. You don't fucking know me, and you don't know how I have GROWN UP hearing my family talk about the way Middle Eastern countries should step in to help.

Or Britain for helping kick all this off in the first place?

I am highly critical of Britain. Why do you think I'm not?

Why do you expect nearly a century of cyclical violence to stop in 10 months? Much as I wish Biden would stop sending aid to Israel (which, if you'd been paying attention, you'd know that Bibi is pissed that military aid has been slowed to the point of affecting operations)

Because we send three billion dollars on a GOOD YEAR to Israel so they can kill and oppress Palestinians, and we've been sending them a lot more money and weapons over the last nine months. Also you're a fucking idiot. Do you read news articles or .... anyways Israel was denied one shipment. (Source) This is called political theater, I guess you've never heard of it. I do wish I could just trust everything a politician says though. Must be nice. Idk if you actually cared about Palestinians you'd watch at least the press conferences where the white house says "no, the latest atrocity won't be stopping the flow of money or weapons to Israel."

No, this isn't about me, but you're levying some ugly attitudes on people just because we're not all out here flaying ourselves alive and that is a very naive, entitled attitude for you to have.

I'm a Palestinian-American, and my single request was that people stop telling me that it will be worse for Palestine if Trump gets elected because they are already experiencing the worst thing they can. It was a humble request to stop making it seem like there is a better option for them. And to stop shaming people who don't have an "America first" attitude.

Any work on aid to Gaza will stop under Trump.

There is no aid getting in now. People are starving to death. Women are using tent scraps when they menstruate.

It would look like faster military aid to Israel, with bigger bombs and worse artiliary. It would look like the bullshit the US pulled in Iraq in the 2000s, but 1000 times worse, because he would go mask-off and send diplomats who would encourage more death, more destruction, and it would embolden all the other authoritarians on the world stage.

THE MILITARY AID IS ALREADY UNIMPEDED!!! Biden is to the right of GEORGE W BUSH and RONALD REAGAN on letting this aid in. Israeli soldiers are posting Abu Ghraib style pictures daily. There are detention camps where people are being tortured. The New York Times has even detailed the sexual abuse prisoners are facing. And I'm giving you sources from Western News Sources because I am sure the accounts of rape and violence coming from Palestinians themselves wouldn't be enough for you.

Stop using genocide to take your despair out on other people. It's so g-ddamn performative.

I'm a Palestinian American. Again, quick check to the bio would have helped. But I do LOVE the implication that me caring about the complete destruction of my own people is "performative."

I'd also like to add that the point of my original post was nothing is worse then genocide, and Palestinians already face those conditions. That I don't want people saying Trump would be worse, when there is NO WORSE. There's not a worse. And that people would be better off talking about other political talking points.

Go do research on US foreign policy.

I have a master's degree in American Studies.

I won't accuse you of being performative on behalf of Palestine, despite clearly not being up to date and willing to believe everything Biden and Netanyahu tell you. But I do think you should try and understand what a post is saying before you comment on it. Like basic reading comprehension.

And I'd also check the bio of someone before you comment. Because I just don't think telling a Palestinian-American that their anger is performative is the best look.

Anyways, I think you should probably start finding ways not to be the living embodiment of a human open blister and either

Find more effective ways to campaign for Joe Biden outside of trying to tell people Trump will be worse for Palestine. As I said, at best it makes it seem like you're concerned about West Bank annexation or at worst wildly uniformed. (You're the latter btw.) I did suggest you all just lean into your White/Blue America First policies. But you know that's just some advice. Just admit you know its selfish, but you need people to vote to make sure white people in blue states will be safe. (Because people of color are safe no where, because a Palestinian-American six year old was stabbed twenty-six times in a blue state. Because Biden also loves funding cops. And queer people in red states are already dying. And if you kick a ton of people off medicaid disabled people who relied on it for doctor treatments get what? And red states are passing laws to restrict teaching and library books. But anyways I digress.)

Start building community to help insulate the inevitable Trump win.

Also maybe you should pay better attention to the news, get news from non-western sources, and actually start listening to people of color when they speak. Like if you're going to go toe to toe with someone over it.

Anyways, since your reading comprehension is at the level of the average tumblr user, I anticipate you won't understand any of this. So let me reiterate.

Stop telling Palestinians in and out of diaspora (diaspora means a population of people scattered from their place of origin, so those of us descended from Palestinian refugees) that Trump will be worse.

I am once again so humbly asking people to stop telling Palestinians and Palestinians in diaspora that "Trump will be worse." We're under no illusion that Trump wouldn't enact the same policies as Biden. We know of Trump's ties to Bibi. We know he would prefer Trump in office.

But there is no worse than genocide, so if you could stop telling people Trump would be worse than what is already happening -- an unimpeded flow of weapons and money to exterminate as many Palestinians as Israel would like.

I cannot take it seriously.

I get it. You're scared of a second Trump presidency. But Palestinians are already being subject to genocide, so there is no worse for them.

You're better off arguing for whatever slightly centrist policies you think Biden will uphold, which I can't possibly imagine what you think it is. He booted a ton of people off of medicaid, he's approved a ton of off-shore drilling, under his leadership the CDC whittled covid isolation to nothing, and he has revoked asylum for immigrants. But you know I'm sure you can come up with something. Supreme court maybe. Encourage people to be single issue voters.

But you shouldn't tell people Palestine will be worse off under Trump. Because I do wonder what that would look like for you. At best it says you worry about West Bank annexation (though the West Bank has also been under increased attack recently), and at worst it means you haven't been paying attention to what's happening to Palestine.

Anyways Israel fired 355 bullets into the car of Hind Rajab, that little girl who begged rescue services to come get her out of the car of her murdered family members before dark because she was frightened of the dark.

And Biden not only doesn't give a single solitary shit about that little girl dying frightened, or that Israel bombed the rescue medics (after giving the permission to come get her), he paid for the bullets that did it.

So again, I ask you, what pray tell, is worse?