#SCREW YOU NETANYAHU

[vikkivibe]

Palestine still needs help. I’m not sure where to find it but there is a whole list of GoFundMe’s and lists of resources to aid Palestinians fleeing to Egypt, who is forcing them to raise millions of dollars just for a few people to escape at a time.

Keep your eyes on Rafah. They are being starved, tents are being burned, families are dying.

God help Palestine. May Israel fall the same way Sodom and Gomorrah did…

Shame upon Netanyahu, shame upon the IDF and IOF, shame upon Joe Biden for funding them, shame upon every person who dares to believe Israel is innocent. Shame upon you who are silent as people die.

ISRAEL DOES NOT DESERVE TO EXIST. DECOLONIZE PALESTINE.

[lostinthegalaxysworld]

Reminder that Donald Trump is an EASY puppet to control for leaders that want to do harm. Dictators like Putin or someone like Netanyahu.

You didn't make things better by letting Trump win and you likely didn't save one life that you claimed you cared about

I'm talking to specifically THIRD party voters and people that CHOSE not to vote. You just screwed over this country and other innocent people around the world.

[therosielord]

I'm Pro-Palestine and I'm voting for Harris and YOU SHOULD BE TOO.

We are getting so close to the US election so I feel compelled to say that if I see ONE more person saying that Trump and Harris will be the same for Palestine I am going to SCREAM.

Let's just go over their stances on the matter real quick:

Harris:

Called the genocide in Gaza a "humanitarian crisis" and publicly acknowledged the suffering of the Palestinian people

Specifically, she said that she has a "serious concern about the scale of human suffering in Gaza, including the death of far too many innocent civilians"

Has called for a ceasefire

Aims to reach a resolution where both Israel and Palestine can be free and independent

Trump:

Wants Israel to "finish the job" because it's "taking too long"

Uses "Palestinian" as an insult

Told Netanyahu to "Have victory, get your victory and get it over with" (DIRECT QUOTE)

Criticized Harris for calling for a ceasefire, saying that she wants to "tie Israel's hands behind its back"

Said that Israel doesn't have the backing that it once had and that he would give it to them

Has repeatedly said he wants to put pro-Palestinian protesters in prison or DEPORT THEM.

Called himself the "best friend the people of Israel have ever had in the White House"

Do I wish Kamala was more strongly Pro-Palestine? Do I wish she'd take a stronger stance against Israel and call them out for their war crimes? Yes, obviously. But if you think that the situation in Palestine will be the same regardless of who gets elected, you are simply not paying attention.

You can criticize Harris' stance all you want. I encourage you to. Hell, I'll join you. They could be doing SO much more than they are. But if you aren't voting because you claim to care about Palestine, not only are you screwing over all of the millions of people in the US whose lives will be endangered under Trump, you are screwing over Palestinians.

Because the fact is that MORE PALESTINIANS WILL DIE UNDER TRUMP THAN UNDER HARRIS. We have one candidate who has a soft-hitting "We should all get along" stance and one candidate who is openly rooting for the country committing the genocide to "FINISH THE JOB." And you think there won't be a difference between them? Really????

I understand if it's hard for you to vote for someone who won't condemn Israel's war crimes. I get it, I really do. But please remember that voting for a candidate does not mean wholeheartedly supporting every opinion and policy they have. You are not sacrificing your morals by voting for a candidate who isn't fully aligned with those morals if voting for them means a real, tangible harm reduction for millions of people.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

A significant part of the U.S. population is just so unaware and oblivious of the responsability they have with their votes. It's not just about their country, it's about the whole wide world.

I am so confused by all the Americans who refuse to vote, allegedly because of some super bizarre concept of morality that is just a tad paradoxical.

So lemme get this straight: You won't vote to have a good conscience, amirite? Yet if you don't vote and let Trump win, everyone will be literally screwed (even the ones that don't think they are, i.e. his own supporters) and especially women, minorities, immigrants, LGTB people and everyone that has been scapegoated by the wacko Christian fundamentalist wing of the Republican party. Trump literally, literally caters to their every wish and that is his biggest and loudest fan base.

If Trump wins, please remember that he told Netanyahu that he would let him "finish the job in Gaza" and Netanyahu consequently supports Trump. So once again, what is this conscience thingy you were talking about? Your bizarre concept of a 'good consciousness in not voting' is the epitome of a paradox if you value your super weird sense of 'moral' comfort more than actual human lives counting on you actually voting. If you still didn't get a cognitive dissonance from this argument, you have no hope and ironically have no moral compass whatsover, regardless of what you think about yourself.

[palestinegenocide]

Israeli genocide is ’embarrassing’ Biden, at last

The Biden administration’s disgraceful policy on Gaza is finally becoming a crisis. Brushing a genocide under the rug only works for so long. The world is appalled, and the Democratic Party base is appalled, and Biden is taking steps– rhetorically anyway– to try to distance himself from a policy of murderous recrimination he has underwritten since the October 7 atrocities.

First at the State of the Union Speech on Thursday night Biden criticized Netanyahu during a post-speech handshake with Colorado Senator Michael Bennet.

“I told him, Bibi, and don’t repeat this, but you and I are going to have a ‘come to Jesus’ meeting,” Biden said. Then alerted that he was being recorded, Biden said, “I’m on a hot mic here… Good. That’s good.”

And outside the Capitol, demonstrators held banners saying “Biden’s Legacy Is Genocide.”

Then yesterday Biden went further. He gave an interview to a loyal Democratic Party journalist, Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC, and said Netanyahu “is hurting Israel” in the eyes of the world.

He has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas but he must, he must, he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions being taken. He’s hurting– In my view he’s hurting Israel more than helping Israel by making the rest of the world — It’s contrary to what Israel stands for, and I think it’s a big mistake. So I want to see a ceasefire. Starting with a major, major exchange of prisoners. For a six week period. We’re going into Ramadan, there should be nothing happening.

This may sound good—to those who are idealistic about Israel maybe, like Senator Bennet – but how does it sound to any one who cares about Palestinian human rights? More than 31,000 Palestinians have been killed, the overwhelming majority civilians, in actions of pure rage and collective punishment. And as Biden was quick to assure Capehart, “I’m never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical, so there’s no red line I’m going to cut off all weapons.”

As Mitchell Plitnick wrote on our site of the increasing Israel-critical rhetoric from the Biden administration, it’s so much “theatrics.” The policy hasn’t changed at all, and it won’t even if the Good Cop Benny Gantz is at Israel’s helm, as Kamala Harris and Biden seem to prefer.

Biden could shut Israeli actions down in a minute. But he will only do lip service to the progressives because the Democratic Party elites are still committed to Israel. Several Congresspeople brought Israelis to the State of the union Speech, including Los Angeles Congressman Brad Sherman, who issued a statement of unqualified support for Israel’s slaughter of Gazans, in defiance of progressives, who are trying to “muddy our national discourse.”

As anti-Israel forces attempt to penetrate and muddy our national discourse, President Biden’s robust defense of Israel will serve as a powerful reminder to the many families of American and Israeli hostages who will be present for tonight’s Address, as well as to the world, that America’s bond with Israel stands unbroken, and our commitment to its right to exist remains unwavering.

And that guy represents Malibu and Studio City and Pacific Palisades! So screw the progressives.

Even NPR is telling us that Biden can’t walk away from the Jewish community politically, even if his base wants him to. Senior Editor Ron Elving:

Netanyahu has taken Israel in a particular direction that is not necessarily popular among American Jews, but which has alienated many people in this country in the Biden administration and elsewhere. And as a result there is a difficulty here that is really insurmountable for the Biden campaign.

While the New Yorker reminds us that Biden has not only the ability to cut off military aid to Israel, but he is required by law to do so, so long as it is preventing humanitarian aid from entering Gaza. But he won’t do it. And it’s “collective punishment,” says Isaac Chotiner, and an embarrassment.

The idea that we’re giving massive amounts in aid to a country that is refusing our request to allow humanitarian assistance through so we have to airdrop food is embarrassing.

Embarrassing. That’s what we’ve come to. The superpower is embarrassed by its client state’s ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians that shows no signs of stopping. The President is having to explain himself and distance himself from the Israelis.

I suppose we should be grateful there’s a political crisis at last. Though we are a long way yet from an honest examination of Zionism and its roots in the Jewish community and American policy.

[bitchy-peachy]

Watch me get reported again for this comment but I'm laughing through clenched teeth right now cos I frankly want to tear my own eyeballs off.

Said under a clip of Arab Americans that voted for Trump celebrating his win thinking he's gonna help Gaza when he's actually talking with Netanyahu about building his businesses over a destroyed Gaza.

You killed your own people, you stupid fucks. This man lied a bunch of times his first term and y'all thought kissing his ass was gonna help y'all?

He's so pro Israel he might as well crawl under Netanyahu like a submissive wife with his butt up.

You screwed your own people and while I may laugh, I'm laughing angrily and if I saw one of you dumb fucks irl I'd slap you so hard you'd shit yourselves.

I want you fucks deported and I want Gazans that have suffered enough to be evacuated to safety while YOU morons take their place in the fall for your stupid ass votes.

In a just world, you'd be taking ALL their suffering but no, you signed their death sentence and I hope it eats at your asses and every time I see your videos or posts of you talking STUPID, I'm gonna be so spiteful and treat you like the dumbfucks you are.

I ain't even Palestinian or Muslim or whatever and I feel so personally pissed off for them for having pieces of shit like you that screwed them over.

You didn't abstain from voting or voted 3rd party. YOU ACTIVELY ENCOURAGED DIRECT PRO TRUMP VOTES COS HE WROTE YOU A DUMB LETTER ONCE SAYING HE'D STOP EVERYTHING.

Well enjoy a complete wipe out. Oh "It couldn't get worse 🙄."

Well, bitch, you made it worse.

These poor people oh my god I'm flaming pissed. Just got on tiktok and saw that stupid shit and am using dark humor cos I was seriously considering telling these dumbfucking backstabbers to kill themselves for being MORONS.

I've had 2 accounts yeeted on tiktok just for using emoji convos and I ain't about to loose another one again cos I have a lot of friends there, but I will be mean as shit towards you Arabs for Trump fucks. Idgaf who I offend, plus you bitches were extremely fucking racist towards Kamala Harris, saying she was a DEI hire and that we were only voting for her cos she was a Black/Asian American woman.

Y'all also said she had no policies when she had a bunch, you morons were just too busy sucking Trump's dick and selling your people out.

Fuck you. You're worse than the tankies now cos far as I know I haven't seen a single one doing this shit. If anything they cared more for them despite them voting like ass themselves but I didn't see a single one partying over Trump winning like you stupid shits are.

And I'm saying this as someone that hates tankies for usually talking over poc and being anti Semitic cos they think all Jews are evil (when I've met more Jews that want Palestinians saved than destroyed at least here in the US. Not everyone in every country is a flaming fucking asshole)

Unbelievable... Still seething at this.

I ain't a religious person. In fact I'm into witchcraft, lol. But I'm really feeling for these poor people rn and want them blessed and protected.

I hope everyone that voted for Trump gets haunted by their faces every time they close their eyes.

[thedepressedweasel]

I know that there are many Jewish individuals everywhere in the world who support Palestine (and rightfully so). However, the great majority of the only Jewish people that I know so far are completely brainwashed into blindly supporting Israhell and all of its genocidal war crimes just because they have relatives who live there. As for our misleaders (and Netanyahu and his ignorant white American supporters), they are only cheering on Israhell just because they could and because they hate Muslims and, therefore, want them dead.

Also, I remember that one time when I was first going to Sacramento City College last year for Spring 2022 semester and I said that I refused to go to Israhell and one of my professors at the time didn't like it. Well, screw you, bitch! The word "Zionism" isn't abused by anyone; you're just one of Netanyahu's ignorant American supporters!

Now, let's talk about hostages from both sides. When the Israeli hostages were released, they openly said that Hamas treated them well (which they did, in some way), whereas the Palestinian hostages, on the other hand, were actually abused and neglected in cold blood by their Israeli Offense Forces terrorists for captors. One Palestinian kid had his fingers broken by his aforementioned captors, whereas the Palestinian women and girls were either raped or routinely threatened with rape. By the same IOF captors, of course.

"WaAaAaAaAh YoU aRe AnTiSeMiTiC bEcAuSe--" Shut your white supremacist American ass up and stop weaponizing antisemitism! It doesn't help Palestinians! Palestine is not Hamas. Nobody who supports Palestine is ever supporting terrorism of any kind; they just want to push our misleaders into imposing a permanent ceasefire! Jewish people are not their government; they are their own people. And I know most of them are rightly appalled by Israhell's actions and behavior. Now take a good look at the bigger picture before jumping into idiotic conclusions!

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

P.S. Anyone who screams "BuT hAmAs--" or "WaAaAaAaH yOu ArE aNtIsEmItIc BeCaUsE--" will get blocked and reported for harassment!

[perfectlyvalid49]

Sometimes I feel like this blog is more Judaism focused than I really want it to be. Like, I am Jewish, but that’s only one aspect of my personality. I’m also interested in politics and linguistics and nerdy pop culture stuff and a whole bunch of other things. And I want this blog to have space for all of that.

So when I spent a ton of time late last week fighting with an antisemite, I told myself that when I was done with him (or as it turns out, when he was done with me), I’d take a break from posting about Jewish issues for a bit. Just like, a week where I’m just reblogging stuff that makes me laugh or an interesting language fact or something like that. Y’know, happy stuff.

He blocked me Friday, and on Saturday, Hamas attacked. And I’ve got a big mouth, so I can’t not say anything. Maybe when this is all resolved I can post happy stuff, but for right now, I need a place to talk, even though I’m struggling with what to say.

I guess the first thing I should say is that I feel terrible about what’s happening. Because what’s happened so far is bad, and what will happen next is even worse. Israel will take its vengeance; innocent Palestinians will die. The friends and families of the victims on both sides will be radicalized and the violence will continue. I hate it and it’s stupid and I wish there was an easy way to stop it and I know that there isn’t.

And I want to say that I support the Palestinian people. The way that Israel treats the Palestinians in Gaza is inhumane – it shouldn’t be allowed! But Israel treats them that way because before they did, you couldn’t get on a bus in Israel without worrying about being blown up. That shouldn’t be allowed either! Everything is complicated. Both sides are full of people who just want to live in peace who are being screwed over by a minority who won’t be happy until the other side is gone. Both sides have valid points, both sides have done terrible things. Anyone who is telling you that it isn’t complicated is either woefully uneducated about the history of the conflict, thinks one side does not deserve fundamental human rights, or both.

And after saying all that, I guess that I should make it clear that I’m still a Zionist – I believe that the Jewish people have the right to a self-determined state, and I think that Israel is probably the best place for it (I did not say a good place, I just don’t think there’s a better one. The best of a bunch of bad options is still the best). Having said that I’m a Zionist, I still hate what Israel’s government is doing and has been doing. Netanyahu is a monster. You can disagree with a country’s government and still think it has a right to exisit.

If you think that all Zionists are evil (and you’re still reading this), then tell me a better solution. Where should Jews go to be safe from governmental persecution? Or should they be denied that? If so, why?

And that’s the other thing I want to talk about. Every Jew I know is watching this with feelings of grief and horror, and the response from the left seems to be some variation on, “Israeli civilians deserved this,” “go back to where you came from,” or “terrorism is OK, actually, as long as it’s against a colonizer state (but not the one I live in).” And it’s soul-crushing. It is possible to be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, but it seems like right now people aren’t even trying. The only good Jew is a dead Jew, and now that there are a bunch of dead Jews, everyone is celebrating.

I keep thinking about this video that I watched at school when I was a kid about the conflict. It was probably the mid 90s and the video showed Arab and Israeli kids playing together with a voice over from an interview with one of their moms. And I remember her saying that the kids playing together was good because then they would be friends, and when they got older they wouldn’t want to fight each other because they would remember that they were friends. I know now that it was probably a propaganda video, but that’s still what I want. I want leadership for Gaza that isn’t a terrorist organization, I want leadership for Israel that isn’t a far right authoritarian nightmare, I want Palestinians to not be locked behind a wall, I want Israelis who don’t have drills for when the rockets come. I want everyone – EVERYONE – to be able to live a life in peace and I want two little boys with different backgrounds and religions that both include a history in Israel to be able to play in a field by a river and be friends.

And if you don’t want that? Fuck you.

[misfitwashere]

Donald Trump has crushed his rivals in the Iowa caucuses. Should they drop out and let him take on Biden?

From Quora:

Let’s be honest, we all knew this was going to happen and the entire country and by extension the world were bracing themselves for it. However, the biggest news were the exit polls, 2/3 say they feel Trump won the 2020 election and the Biden Presidency is illegitimate, 44% said they were MAGAS and they would vote for Trump even if he was convicted of a crime.

DeSantis and Haley are road kill at this point. They had their chances, Haley could make it a little closer, DeSantis will stay in only for the inevitable losses to come and drop out within a month, 2 at the most.

The real issue is this one:

Joy Reid accuses White Christian Iowans of wanting to have people of color 'bow down' to them

Reid argued that evangelicals support Trump because they believe 'immigrants' and 'brown people' are 'illegitimate Americans'

Ok so what is it going to be folks. Trump has a 90% probability that he is going to win the Republican nomination, what are the Democrats going to do about it. Trump owns the evangelicals, all the mocking about him not being a Christian, the anti-Christ, none of them give a damn. He is their guy, their Jesus and he can say and do anything that he wants.

The General election effectively began last night.

The Republicans have made their agenda clear. Biden stole the election, doesn’t matter that everyone knows he did not, doesn’t matter how well he has led the country, doesn’t matter that Trump inspired and led an insurrection against the USA, what matters is what they believe.

Now what do the Democrats believe. Don’t even bother trying to convince evangelicals who have their Jesus martyr victim grifting them for money. Don’t think about those MAGA hatted folks, they want Trump.

There are 40% who are now ‘independents’ in the USA, they hold the balance of power. The Iowa caucuses have very few people but they have spoken for the Republicans, they want Trump, they worship and adore Trump. Trump could shoot them all on 5th avenue and they would gladly bow down. That is the GOP today.

Democrats, start your engines. No more whinging about Biden didn’t manage to overturn the Supreme Court decision to get your student loans cut, sorry kids you will have to pay, not as much as he did get you $50 billion back but not enough for you perfect kids. Millennials ditto, your raises were only 20% this year in your nice cushy jobs. Same for you African Americans, you are complaining the loudest, we hear you, you want more but you won’t get more if you don’t get up and vote for Biden, you will get nothing as Joy Reid has pointed out, you are illegitimate Americans to Trump supporters.

Same for you Latinos, you want to ‘bow down’ to Christian evangelicals. How about you classic Liberals, you like that Christian theocracy because if Trump wins it is surely coming. Oh and you Israel supporters bitching and moaning about Biden who is the strongest Presidential supporter of Israel ever, you don’t like him? Think about what Trump will give away.

Ditto to Ukraine and European supporters, you don’t want Trump, then you better wake up. How about those transatlantic Brits, you and the Aussies who are so dependent and deep in on AUKUS and everything else Biden has done for you, time to step up and support Biden.

I could go on but on the other side, the Saudis will clearly screw around with oil to raise the price of gas to push for Trump who will give them everything. They hate it that Biden is focused on renewables and the lies of Trump on Biden and oil? Hahaha what a joke, Biden is pumping more than Saudi the most oil pumped in the history of the world.

Putin is dancing in the street, he feels he just won the war in Ukraine. Make no doubt about it, Putin wants Trump as does Xi Jin Ping and every other authoritarian including Netanyahu. You like war, you like death you like the end of democracy on a global level, vote for Trump. He will take you down with him.

Oh and yes; Lies, lies and more damn lies you can see them coming. Daily, hourly ever more outlandish than the last ones.

This is the beginning of a 10 month campaign, buckle up, it is going to be the wildest and most important one in US history. Not hyperbole, reality.

Let’s get to work and make sure Trump gets crushed right back in November, 2024.

Henry R. Greenfield ·

Former Senior Consultant Global Digital Twin Technology at Integrated Facility Management (2019–2023)

[moonlayl]

Just to be clear, I have almost zero tolerance towards Zionists and Netanyahu bootlickers coming onto my posts.

However, I just received a notification that someone commented antisemitic crap on one of them. I don’t tolerate that disgusting behaviour either.

I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but my problem and majority of the people who support Palestine/stand against Israel’s problem is with ZIONISTS.

Not all Jewish people are Zionists

Not all Zionists are Jewish

I don’t understand why this is such a difficult concept to grasp.

Non Jewish Zionists are just as bad if not worse.

Screw Zionists and screw everyone who supports Israel, completely agree, But why are you then being hateful towards ALL Jewish people??

Like???? Antisemitism is still very much thing and a major problem.

Hitler IS a piece of shit and a fascist. And NOTHING justifies any of the horrendous crimes he’s committed. No he’s not “right” and he never was.

If I see any of that on any of my posts I will block and report. I won’t tolerate antisemitism.

My disgust towards Israel and me standing against them doesn’t mean I’ll ever accept blatant hatred and discrimination towards Jewish people.

Like honest to God, screw every single person who tries to use what’s happening to spread their antisemitic and bigoted agenda. I genuinely wish the worst for you.

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

With all due respect, I grew up among right-wing people, and none of them have ever held hatred for Judaism, Jews, or Israel. (In fact a lot of them like Israel and ranted that our last three presidents screwed it over) I’ve never even encountered a modern-day nazi in southern USA where they supposedly thrive. Who exactly do you mean when you say right-wingers are antisemitic?

Hi!

You're referring to this post.

Obviously, the outright showcase of antisemitism is more of a far-right / alt-right kind of behavior. The Unite The Right Rally from 2017 is a great and not a particularly subtle example in this regard with all the "Jews will not replace us" chants... Even in the January 6th insurrection, a rebellion meant to reinstall Trump who is supposedly a great ally to Israel, there were people in the crowd literally wearing shirts that say "Camp Auschwitz" on them alongside the usual Nazi memorabilia and iconography.

It's also important to remember that the majority of conspiracy theories, that are much more prevalent within right wing circles, are also mostly at their core antisemitic. Everything dealing with "cabals", "elites" and "lizard people" are usually just euphemisms for Jews. Also, everything about George Soros and dozens other dog-whistles. And sometimes they just blame the Rothschilds for causing wild fires in the US with a space laser...

[By the way, there's an Israeli anthropologist of religion named Adam Klin Oron, who investigated the conspiracy community in Israel, both Jewish and non-Jewish. it is not very big but it does exist. I mean, the paradox of Jewish people believing in antisemitic conspiracy theories is absolutely fascinating, especially the methods they have to adopt to settle this cognitive dissonance. I think he has some papers and maybe lectures in English out there, if your curious about the subject]

But it is important to note that the usage of "elites" in particular as well as of other dog-whistles and antisemitic tropes (like the dual-loyalty) are common even among less extreme sections of the right. In 2018 Kevin McCarthy twitted: "We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election!”. It's comments like this, refusal to condemn antisemitism from within the party and only when it comes from the left (the same tactic of the left themselves), and other constantly present actions that make it clear that Jews are not in much a priority for the Republican party and more not exactly welcomed.

Now, there's also the whole thing about Evangelicals. They might just be some of the biggest allies of Israel, but they also want all Jews to move there in order to set Armageddon in motion. Seriously. This is an actual thing they believe in and is the only real reason any of them ever does anything for and about Israel and Jews.

Similarly, many other right supporters of Israel have an alternative reason for their support, both in the US and outside of it, especially in Europe which have been at the forefront of massive immigrant and refugee waves from Arab nations in the past decade. This support isn't actually for Israel or Jews - it's just plain hatred for Arabs and Muslims. They sort of view Israel as a double-gift: 1) it concentrates all Jews together, away from them, and 2) Israel is always fighting Arabs, and they hate Arabs, so that's good (a philosophy Netanyahu supports whole hardheartedly, preferring to swallow the antisemitic frog for the support and legitimization of his actions). So while technically many right wing will actively support Israel, the reason is often ironically antisemitic and Islamophobic.

To be clear - this is not about individuals. It never is. It can't be. It's impossible for hundreds of thousands and millions of people to think and act exactly the same. Of course there are many people, both on the left and the right, who are not antisemitic and many people who truly wish to protect Jewish people and Israel's right to exist. But this isn't about individuals, it's about prevalent beliefs and behaviors in movements. And these are unfortunately quite common, in both political parties.

[dhaaruni]

Further, unless Biden does a 180, little to no hope exists of electing a President in 2024 who will turn the screws on Israel. There is zero chance of that happening in the foreseeable future. If there ever was, it died on October 7th. If leftists got their heads out of their asses long enough to think strategically and thoroughly about the situation, they would realize the only hope Palestinians have is a shift in politics within Israel, the collapse of the current Netanyahu regime, and the rise of a more moderate government in Jerusalem that seeks to restart peace negotiations. The only way that happens is if powerful Western leaders, with the American President the biggest among them, are popular enough within Israel to affect internal Israeli politics. In offering unconditional support to Israel since October 7th – that “bear hug of Bibi” the Left hates so much – Biden has won good graces among the public in Israel and become the first Democrat since Bill Clinton to be popular there. That could parlay into having significant influence over the Israeli electorate. Barack Obama never had it and, indeed, his existence was antagonistic – he opposed settlement expansion in the West Bank – and Netanyahu leveraged that to gain and hold power. With Netanyahu’s political career on the ropes because of Israeli anger toward his dropping the ball on October 7th, now is the time to strike. Only Biden, with the support of like-minded leaders in the UK, Germany, and other Western countries, can possibly affect any political change in Israel in a direction that favors Palestinians. If Trump, who is also quite popular in Israel, were to win, he would simply prop up Netanyahu indefinitely and, in hopes of winning Jewish votes and support, allow him to annex and settle Gaza and the West Bank, leaving Palestinians stateless. We know he would do this because he already has. While president, he supported Israel annexing Golan Heights. Trump will also use his business influences to bribe Arab states with money and weapons to put down any domestic uprisings and eventually tacitly support Israel’s existence. Currently, the most prominent Muslim country supporting Palestinians is Iran, a Shia nation funding the Houthis in Yemen, the extremist gang firing on ships in the Red Sea, and who are fighting against the Sunni Yemeni government, backed by Sunni Arab countries like Saudi Arabia. Trump would leverage the internal Shia-Sunni Islamic strife with Arabs on one side and anti-Israel Iranians and their proxies on the other to push Arab countries to turn a blind eye to further ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and if you know your history, Arab powers never cared for them anyway. They *especially* do not want an Iranian proxy state (Hamas-controlled Palestine) bordering Egypt and Jordan. The only hope for Palestine is Hamas’ destruction and Biden’s reelection.

(x)

[spooky-spextre-arts]

From what I've seen, there are (unsurprisingly) quite a few leftists dunking on Sarah McBride, a recently elected transgender politician to the U.S. House (via Delaware).

Reason being, they believe she is a "Zionist," and is evil incarnate for supporting a two-state solution.

I only have this to say: screw them.

Just screw them, and leave them be.

Sorry that in between a devastating federal loss, where the elected candidate will only encourage the absolute worst of Netanyahu, you actually secured quite a few extremely valuable wins. Wins won by extremely competent, open-minded individuals, who now hold (hopefully) enough power to help stave off the worst of the new administration.

These are the same groups that have been encouraging third-party voting, vote splitting, and downplaying what Trump is capable of, who NOW feel they have a right to complain about the election results.

Makes me wonder if the leftists who have the energy to "boycott" one of the only positive wins of this election will care enough to condemn the new administration.

TLDR: Don't listen to far-leftists who refuse to accept the smaller wins in the midst of extreme losses. (Also, congratulations, Representative McBride.)

[tiggymalvern]

But we literally *can* stop sending US made weapons to them? We can literally stop sending money to them? I am not trying to be a jerk/hateful, I'm just so confused by what you mean by "nothing the US can do to stop this" when we quite literally could stop sending them weapons and money...

The Israeli people choose the Israeli government. The US has no say in that. They only get to work with what they're given.

Do you think Biden likes being called Genocide Joe? Do you think he doesn't know that the assault on Gaza is screwing over his chances of being re-elected? Do you think he hasn't heard all the talk in left-wing circles about sitting out the election and not voting? If Biden had a way to stop Netanyahu from flattening Gaza, he would have already done it.

The US has contracts with Israel to send them weapons. If the US decides to unilaterally breach those contracts, there will be penalties and diplomatic repercussions. Netanyahu would instantly cut off all contact with Biden, and Biden would lose what little influence over Netanyahu he has. Which honestly isn't much, because Netanyahu has multiple criminal cases pending, and the only thing standing between Netanyahu and jail is the fact that Israeli law says you can't put the prime minister on trial.

Netanyahu's share of the Israeli vote is getting smaller. He's only managing to stay in power by dragging together coalitions with more right wing extremist groups. Right now, he believes that firing up his right wing base by attacking Palestinians is the key to keeping his position, and keeping his position is keeping him out of jail. Netanyahu has absolutely no incentive to stop. Israel is not a poor country and they've been stockpiling weapons and military equipment for decades. They still have more than enough to flatten Gaza, whether the US sends them weapons or not.

The US could stop sending money to Israel, sure. That's not under Biden's control, though. The budget is decided by Congress, and Congress is held by Republicans. Those Republicans refused to fund anything Biden wanted to pass a few months ago until money for Israel was included. They were about to shut down the entire government again by not passing a funding bill for anything. Giving money to Israel was one of the prices they demanded for allowing Biden's government to function at all. And hell, it's not just Republicans - there are too many Democrats in favour of supporting Israel too. Biden would have had to start a civil war within his own party to try and change anything, and he still would have failed.

Biden would love it if the Israeli people decided to elect another moderate like Yitzhak Rabin. Someone who was willing to compromise and look for a way forward and support a two-state solution. Biden could and would work with someone like that to achieve a peace. Instead he's stuck with a vicious, narcissistic criminal in Netanyahu, a man who literally does not give a damn what happens to anyone except himself.

The realities of national and international politics suck, but that doesn't make them any less real.

[politicalblade]

Abby. There are numerous articles of this having been started by Israel. Being the occupying state, they are the aggressors at all times. International Law outright states that Israel are the ones that are the aggressors.

This is a statement by the UN. They outline that anyone who are under apartheid have the rights to resist their occupation, by all means available, including armed struggle.

There are numerous articles and news stories about how Israel has gotten away with atrocities.

IDF Soldier gets away with killing a schoolgirl.

Ethiopian woman given contraceptives without consent.

2021 is the deadliest year for Palestinian children since 2014.

Oh my bad. That was 2023. Reported on… Oh, would you look at that. OCTOBER SIXTH.

Holocaust scholars are stating that Israel are committing a genocide.

The UN stated in 2016 and said that Israel's settlements have no legal validity.

Times of Israel outright claimed that Netanyahu was the blockade in the return of the hostages.

Israel has been in clear violation of international law since 1967.

The government that we globally elected to keep an eye on the world repeatedly says that Israel is in the wrong and should go back to their 1967 borders. All reasonable demands by Hamas, on account that they are what the UN wants.

It's a simple statement of fact: Israel are the ones in the wrong. You don't get to oppress indigenous people and occupy territory and not expect a resistance. Ghandi wouldn't condemn Hamas. That's because he's smart enough to know that you don't just accept annihilation.

The ICC and ICJ are both going after Netanyahu for a reason.

You don't get to dictate how someone resists occupation and oppression.

Because if you condemn Hamas, you may as well condemn the slaves for uprising against their slave masters. You may as well condemn the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto for violently resisting their nazi oppressors.

Israel has always been in violation of international law. They have repeatedly stated that the goal isn't to rescue the hostages (Bibi's repeated rejection of the deals has shown that). But some of them have gone on record as to say that their goal is to destroy.

Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari, openly stating that they don't care about civilians.

Israel is nowhere near the beacon of morality that they claim to be.

Israel admitted to having employed the Hannibal Directive on October 7.

Israel's "friendly fire" has killed more hostages.

Israel has killed more hostages than they've rescued.

Israel is committing war crimes. That is a definitive fact. The only reason they get away with it is because of The Hague Invasion Act that America passed that would let them attack The Hague if they ever did anything that they disagreed with.

Because Israel is America's arm in the Middle East. Biden admitted as much because Israel isn't a safe haven for the Jews. It's a military base dressed up as a country so that America can have a way to control the Middle East.

Because America believes itself to be the world's police. And given how our own police act here, it's clear that the country isn't doing this for altruistic reasons. They're doing it because they crave control.

But hey. What do I know? I just have multiple articles detailing how Israel is in violation of international law, articles stating that Hamas is acting within international law, and quotes of Israeli officials outright admitting to disregarding civilians. And this isn't even counting the various zionists that take off their mask to show how vile and uncaring they are about civilian casualties. Like you, Abby.

FFS, I can't believe that you named yourself after my favorite joke in Young Frankenstein… Screw you.

[back-and-totheleft]

"The same old bullshit"

Oliver Stone said Friday he was shocked to hear that the stars of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer had walked out of its London premiere the day before as SAG-AFTRA officially declared strike action.

“I know several producers are opening movies, like Oppenheimer. Chuck Roven, he was in London. I heard it was going to be cancelled,” said Stone, when asked for his view on the strike.

“I don’t know if it went ahead but all the actors left. That was shocking that they really meant business and cut off right away all the promotion, which is big.”

Commenting on the ongoing 11-week WGA strike, Stone suggested the roots of the current industrial action lie in the deal brokered to end the five-month writers strike in 1988.

“There was a basic miscarriage of justice way back when, when Brian Walton was the head of the WGA, when we gave in. I wasn’t on the front line, but I supported that strike,” said Stone.

“We gave in to the producers. They got away with murder on one of these deals where all that DVD money was deferred. They claimed they were in the hole, in the red, and that they had to get their money back from DVD.

“I forgot what the percentage was, but they took something like the first 75% off the top. The DVD business was huge, especially for my films. So, the gross was never divided fairly.”

Stone said this trend had continued with residuals and profits.

“Not so much residuals, as profits really. Residuals are important for some of the writers who don’t make as much money. But people who do make money, they don’t touch the profits from the film, the studio does,” he said.

“The studio is always telling you that they’re losing money, but they always find a way to make a new level of profit for 10, 15 years. … It’s that perpetual industrial problem with a capitalist group that pays its executives more and more money and screws the average writer.”

Looking back over past industrial action, Stone recalled how the 2007 writers strike initially led to the postponement of his 1968 My Lai massacre drama Pinkville, and then resulted in it being cancelled for good.

“We had three weeks to go and it got cancelled. We got hurt,” he said.

Stone said he doubted there would be a quick or easy resolution to the current writer and actor disputes.

“I don’t think it will be wrapped up quickly. Because well, I don’t understand the economics of Netflix and these new guys, but it’s the same old bullshit. You know they’re making money and they always say they’re losing money. It’s the classic conflict that goes back to the 1880s in America.”

Stone was talking to Deadline at the Jerusalem Film Festival, where he showed his 2022 documentary Nuclear Now, arguing the case for nuclear power as the only viable way to tackle climate change.

Based on the book A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow, the work premiered at Venice last year.

The work is a passion project for Stone, who says he was inspired to make the film by his fear of climate change.

“I’m not a science expert and I have no kinship with nuclear power. On the contrary, you could say I was a mild believer in the Jane Fonda-Ralph Nader concept of the 1980s that nuclear power was dangerous,” said the director, who also took co-writing credits with U.S. scientist Joshua Goldstein.

“But it’s clear to me from my travels all over the world, that it’s getting hotter, and hotter, and hotter. We were in Italy, two, three days ago, and they said it was hottest day on record or something.”

Stone was also honored with a lifetime achievement award from the Jerusalem Film Festival at the opening ceremony Thursday evening alongside Helen Mirren and Belgian directorial duo Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.

The director last spent extensive time in the country in 2002 at the height of Second Intifada to make his documentary Persona Non Grata, in which he interviewed Israeli leaders Benjamin Netanyahu, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon as well as the Palestinian Al Aqsa Brigade on the Middle East conflict.

Two decades on, he suggested the situation is unchanged.

“It’s a repetitive cycle. I’ve been here several times. I planted an olive tree for peace here in the ’90s with my then-partner Arnon Milchan and came back in 2002 for Persona Non Grata. … I don’t see a difference. It’s just worse. Like it’s getting hotter. It’s just getting more and more choked.”

-Melanie Goodfellow, "Oliver Stone Shocked By ‘Oppenheimer’ SAG-AFTRA Strike Cast Walkout; Says Roots Of Writers Strike Lie In 1988 Deal," Deadline, Jul 14 2023