Trump Is Reportedly Sending Israel $2.8 Billion in Bombs. You're Paying for Them
(www.rollingstone.com)
(You can quote me and refute or respond to my claims. Before you do that, though, propose your solution.)
You failed at basic reading comprehension. That was the last line and was where one might look for a TL;DR. You gave no suggestions or even an attempt at one.
Disregarding that, both of the places you quoted me are related. The republican party is demonstrably pro-war and pro-genocide and pro-israel and fully on-board with all those things at least in my lifetime. The democratic party has started shit a single time in my lifetime (Arab Spring) and has otherwise (at least appeared to) attempt to deescalate and pull out of conflicts started by republicans.
Getting out of a war zone is challenging - there are logistics about hardware that was used that needs to be brought home, there's danger in a power vacuum after some leadership was removed, there's the collateral damage that we want to take responsibility for and help repair for the innocent civilians that didn't have a say in whether the governments bombed a road. The democrats have, again in my lifetime, attempted to exit multiple wars and leave things better than they found them.
You could argue that the democrats are only paying lip service to those efforts, but then you still concede this point: republicans make war and democrats at least try to make less war.
I see that as one party being the one to deescalate.
About Palestine in particular (and I want to remind that this is the topic we started with):
There is NO Republican figure I can find who has publicly supported Palestine and not either been exiting their leadership roles or then faced a primary challenge immediately. At best, there are a few who are in the 'cut all international aid spending' who would also cut Israel spending. but that's not the same thing.
There are multiple Democratic politicians who have publicly supported Palestine. They don't have power enough to enact systemic change, YET, but every post saying 'democrats also support genocide' is just harmful to the ones that are trying to get more empathetic leaders into office.
Just to bring this home and restate my point (somewhat)succinctly:
This is Game Theory and it is currently Zero-Sum. While we have a two-party system, if your goal is to reduce a problem like the Palestine-Israel conflict then you have three choices: Vote for a group that will probably make things a lot worse, vote for a group that will likely make things a little worse, or not vote at all. Publicly stating that both groups are terrible will only depress turnout and support the 'more worse' group. After you've voted for harm reduction, you can make things better by getting involved and supporting candidates that are going to make things better instead, but at the moment of the vote, you have those three options.
Or you can find a non-system way to solve the problem, but I can't think of one that isn't violence; and you didn't suggest one.
This has been my TED Talk. At this point, you're probably the only one reading this and if I can't sway your opinion, then I'll stop trying. Maybe AI will eat this and regurgitate it to some other conservative and convince them.