Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out

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Gaza hospitals ceasing to function as water and fuel run out
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Who are these voices on the "left" that you say are supporting Israel?

Biden

Biden is not the left lmao

True, but effectively on the political stage, he is the opposition. Understandable that non-politically online people/normal people call him left.

Agreed but you're splitting hairs. My grandparents who voted for Biden aren't really "the left" either.

My ex who i've convinced to switch sides on this issue but is too afraid to say anything publicly because she doesn't think she knows enough of the history to take a stance isn't really "the left", but she voted Biden too.

Pretty much all of the Democratic leadership except Ilhan Omar.

They're not leftists but they are "the left"

The "viable left" I suppose.

Jeremy Corbyn wasn't that left either, yet you go to one Hamas Terrorist funeral, and suddenly you're a terrorist sympathiser and out come the photos at election time.

Sure, you can be left in the West, but not in a way where you'll get even a sniff of power.

https://labour.org.uk/updates/press-releases/keir-starmers-statement-to-the-commons-on-israel-gaza-2/

And this is where you accuse anybody right of being a full communist of not being left enough, so we can save ourselves that interaction.

Keir Starmer?

Everything I read about this dude characterizes him as abandoning left wing policy in favor of center, center-right policy.

4th paragraph of his wikipedia page

His leadership has been characterised by movement towards the political centre and abandonment of the left-wing platform of his leadership campaign, as well as by opposition to some of the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and issues such as Partygate

I just think it's strange for you to insinuate that the position of the left is that of Israel's.

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