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I understand that there are millions of
Americans who disagree with President
Biden and vice president Kam Harris on
the terrible war in Gaza.
I am one of
them.
while Israel had a right to defend
itself against the horrific Hamas
terrorist attack of October 7th which
killed 1,200 innocent people and took
250 hostages, it did not have the right
to wage an allout war against the entire
Palestinian people.
it did not have the right to kill 42,000 pal Palestinians
2 third of whom were children women and
the elderly or injure over a 100,000
people in Gaza.
it did not have the right
to destroy gaza's infrastructure housing
and Health Care System.
it did not have
the right to bomb everyone of gaza's 12
universities.
it did not have the right
to block humanitarian Aid causing
massive malnutrition in children and in
fact starvation.
and that is why I am
doing everything I can to block US
military aid and offensive weapon sales
to the right-wing extremist Netanyahu
government in Israel.
and I know that
many of you share those feelings and
some of you are saying how can I vote
for KLA Harris if she is supporting this
terrible war.
and that is a very fair question.
and let me give you my best
answer and that is that even on this
issue, Donald Trump and his right-wing friends
are worse in the senate.
in Congress the Republicans have worked overtime to
block humanitarian Aid to The Starving
Children in Gaza.
the President and Vice President both support getting as much
humanitarian Aid into Gaza as soon as possible.
Trump has said Netanyahu is doing a good job, and said Biden is
holding him back.
he has to suggested that the Gaza Strip would make excellent
beachfront property for development.
and it is no wonder Netanyahu prefers to have Donald Trump in office.
but even more importantly, and this I promise you.
after kamla wins, we will together do everything that we can to change US
policy toward Netanyahu.
an immediate ceasefire, the return of all hostages, a surge of massive humanitarian Aid, the stopping of settler attacks on the West
Bank, and the rebuilding of Gaza for the
Palestinian people.
and let me be clear.
we will have in my view a much better
chance of changing US policy with kamla
than with Trump who is extremely close
to Netanyahu and sees him as a
like-minded right-wing extremist Ally.
but let me also say this, and I deal with
this every single day as a US senator as
important as Gaza is, and as strongly as
many of us feel about this issue, it is
not the only issue at stake in this
election.
if Trump wins women in this
country will suffer an enormous setback
and lose the ability to control their
own bodies.
that is not acceptable.
if Trump wins, to be honest with you, the
struggle against climate change is over.
well , virtually every scientists who have
studied the issue understands that
climate change is real and an
existential threat to our country and
the world.
Trump believes it is a hoax, and if the United States the largest
economy in the world stops Transforming Our Energy System away from fossil fuel, every other country, China, Europe, all over the world, they will do exactly the same thing.
and God only knows the kind of planet we will leave to our kids and
future Generations if Trump wins.
at a time of massive income and wealth
inequality, he will demand even more tax breaks for the very richest people in
our country while cutting back on programs that Working Families desperately need.
the rich will only get richer while the minimum wage will
remain at $7.25 an hour, and millions of our fellow workers will continue to earn salvation wages.
did you all see the recent Trump rally at Madison Square Garden?
well I did.
and what I can tell you is that as a nation. as all of you know, we have struggled for years against impossible odds to try to overcome all forms of bigotry whether it is racism whether it's sexism, whether it's homophobia, whether it's xenophobia. you name it.
we have tried to fight against bigotry but that is exactly what we saw on display
at that unbelievable Trump rally.
it was not a question of speakers getting up there disagreeing with kamala
Harris on the issue.
that wasn't the issue at all.
they were attacking her simply because she was a woman and a woman of color.
extreme vulgar sexism and racism is that really the kind of America that we can
allow.
so let me conclude by saying this.
this is the most consequential election in our lifetimes.
many of you have differences of opinion with kamala Harris on Gaza.
so do I.
but we cannot sit this election out.
Trump has got to be defeate.
let's do everything we can in the next week to make sure that KamaLA
Harris is our next president.
thank you very much.
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