“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote fo...

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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.