While Stein condemned Israel for its actions, she placed ultimate responsibility for much of the violence on Washington, telling MintCast host Mnar Adley that:
Gaza is the “key issue of our era,” Green Party presidential hopeful Jill Stein told the MintCast today. “Every international law in the books is being broken,” she said, “This is not something that began on October 7. This is the continuation of ethnic cleansing and displacement that began in 1947 and 1948 with the displacement of 750,000 people.”
Quite simply, Joe Biden needs to pick up the phone and tell Israel to cease and desist from this war being conducted on Gaza, the blockade, the use of starvation as a weapon, the total violation of international law and the conduct of a genocide, which is going on. There is enormous agency that the United States has here: we are paying for this. We are supplying 80% of the weapons [to Israel]!”
Stein, a physician by trade, has been involved in the Green movement for decades. She first ran for office in 2002, attempting to become the governor of her native Massachusetts. In 2012 and 2016, she was selected as the Green Party’s presidential candidate. Running against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016, she received over 1% of the national vote. She is the overwhelming favorite to represent the Green Party in the 2024 presidential election.
Congress, Stein noted, has just approved $3.8 billion in aid to Israel, with another $17 billion pending for “not only continu[ing] its genocide but to expand its wars in the Middle East.”
Global public opinion is increasingly turning against the U.S., Stein warned, turning both Washington and Israel into “pariahs.” Even inside the United States, recent polling shows that a majority of Democratic voters consider Israeli actions to constitute genocide. And President Biden continues to offer unconditional support.
It seems this is pushing millions of voters to consider the Green Party as an alternative. Stein described the Democratic establishment as in a state of “panic” over the “widespread revolt” among its voter base, which could destroy the party’s chances of winning elections. She said they are fielding “an army of corporate lawyers to try to dirty trick us, to find little technicalities to throw us off the ballot.”
This is not a new phenomenon, as the Green Party has long dealt with the Democrats’ attempts to suppress them. However, what has changed, Stein said, is the party’s willingness to announce their intentions to limit democracy openly. As she told Adley:
There is such a heavy hand of censorship and political repression in this country that it is a struggle to simply participate in our democracy. Voters a clamoring for more voices and more choices. People revile the two zombie candidates that are being rammed down our throats and are very hungry for other options on the ballot.”
Watch or Listen to the full interview, in which the pair discuss Gaza, the military-industrial complex, and what a Jill Stein presidency would mean for the United States.
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7 responses to “Presidential Candidate Jill Stein On Gaza, The Two-Party System and US Militarism”
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Special attention is to be paid to the fact that both US political parties, no matter how serious the illegality of their actions, never in American history has one of them openly declared the unconstitutional or illegal practices of the party in power and call for impeachment and incarceration for treason against the constitution by a US president. And never will, since the regime is first and foremost sacrosanct.
Thank God we have an alternative to the Trumpster and Genocide Joe!
Let’s see what new illegal maneuver the regime comes up with, to exclude any threat to the duopoly running the affairs of state. Dr. Jill Stein is not only a capable woman with a viable and fair alternative but also as a human being, she is worth sainthood. What a woman.
So get working to drive that wedge of sanity into the embedded-media-stupified and misdirected electorate.
This woman has her homework done…do yours if you live in the US, or if not there promote her from whatever corner you’re in, before the p$ychotiKKKs c£o$€ the show.
Keep in mind Jill Stein is Reform Jewish, the vast majority of whom are Zionists. I would like to hear what her views on Zionism are. I would like to hear her explain how much of the political goals of the US Jewish Lobby she agrees with and how much she disagrees with.
I think we ran into problems with Bernie Sanders because of his refusal to address such issues. I myself joined a group of Democrats back in 2016 to persuade Sanders to run, which he did. Lately, however, it seems to me that he’s a typical “good Jew,” who has many good political ideas, but his first loyalty is to his tribe.
You clearly did not read the article, or, if you did, lack any ability to process information. If you did read the article, you should be clear on where Jill Stein stands on the subject of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians (i.e., the ultimate manifestation of Zionism).
It is hard for me to take your comment seriously. Particularly, your statement referring to reformed Jews, “the vast majority of whom are Zionists.”