#Trump and Middle East

[poliphoon]

Donald Trump’s Middle East Challenges

The good news first. Peace has made a beginning in Lebanon. The bad news now. Peace will get stuck at the start itself. The man responsible for this will be Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States. Despite global peaceniks’ fervent hopes that Mr Trump would finish the task begun by his predecessor Joe Biden, the former may tacitly encourage the rebuilding of Jewish settlements in the…

[mysharona1987]

[maggylutz]

The women in the U.S. saying they're oppressed because they can't have an abortion every week just shows how privileged they are. There are women in the Middle East who aren't allowed to talk in public, leave the house without a man, or even show their face. So before you start crying that you have no rights anymore, maybe think about how you wouldn't even be able to speak up about your opinions in a place like that.

[simply-ivanka]

Democrats foster an America Last agenda!

They did during the Obama Administration, they have with the Biden Administration and they will continue if Harris gets into the White House.

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[troythecatfish]

[randyite]

[lesbiantomservo]

Like most reasonable Americans, I am completely devastated right now.

But, from one democrat to another, if any part of you is blaming arab voters for this, shut the fuck up.

Don't you dare. Many of these people have lost family in this genocide. You have no right to judge them for their discomfort in voting for Harris.

Additionally, the numbers don't add up. Trump's victory is going to be due to a lot more than a few third-party votes in the upper Midwest. Blame American misogynoir, blame white people, blame men. That’s much more in line with the data.

And if your fear of losing this election was the only thing keeping you from talking about Gaza and Lebanon...

whelp, I guess it's time to start speaking up.

[thenameisgul]

Democrats are just Republicans-Lite and that’s everything that’s wrong with american politics.

[the-greatest-fool]

I basically only post and read posts in my bubble aside from occasionally scrolling through Real Tumblr, but people’s takes about US politics on this website are fucking unbelievable. They talk about our government as if it didn’t save us from a pandemic-induced financial collapse, pump trillions of dollars into public works, not to mention substantially invest and rein in pharmaceuticals, and is instead some sort of ultra-neoliberal-corporate kitty shooting machine.

Like let’s be for real. Do they…know what the government does? How it works? Do you know what a conservative is? Do you know what an authoritarian is?

Because a system of government whose citizens are all lucky it has had continuous peaceful transfer of power for centuries could very well have its greatest norm violated—that those who reject its legitimacy must be rejected—and we don’t blink an eye.

Because the first major investment against climate change, coupled with life saving investments into healthcare, cancer research, and drug costs could be shredded by indiscriminate fiscal conservatives who don’t care if we die in forest fires, cancer from pollution, lose insurance because we’re jobless, or, apparently, all die in a fricking plague.

Because a foreign policy establishment that had finally reversed two decades of foreign intervention in favor of a normalization strategy aimed at reducing American foot presence, drone strikes, and indiscriminate killings is about to be replaced by the whims of a man who dropped the “mother of all bombs” on the Middle East, gave American soldiers up to Russian bounty hunters, extorted a foreign leader for political favors and arguably indirectedly resulted in that country being BRUTALLY INVADED BY AN IMPERIAL NEIGHBOR, is in the pockets of CCP-funded billionaires, and WANTS TO “FINISH THE JOB” IN GAZA.

Because a President who is against family separations and promotes a path for DREAMERs and more legal immigration and rights for unodcumented people could be replaced by a man who wants to separate families, PUT UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS, RESTRICT EVEN LEGAL IMMIGRATION, ESPECIALLY THAT OF MUSLIMS, AND SHOOT MIGRANTS.

Because a President who stopped a repeat of the Great Recession and the painful decade that followed it with strong fiscal stimulus which CUT CHILD POVERTY IN HALF BEFORE CONSERVATIVES MADE IT EXPIRE, then managed to cut deficits and presided over a decline in inflation, resulting in record high real wages (aka taking into account inflation) for workers is going to be replaced by a President who wants to TARIFF ALL FOREIGN GOODS by 15%, CUT TAXES FOR THE FILTHY RICH AND THE TAX ENFORCEMENT TO STOP THEM, INCREASE CHILD POVERTY AND UNINSUREDNESS by cutting gov’t programs, and HURT UNIONS which by every measure will lead to lower wages, higher prices, and more poverty and starvation.

Because a President who has pledged to sign a bill codifying Roe v. Wade (which has yet to be possible in recent memory, whatever these kids say), who enshrined the right to marry someone of the same sex or different race, who supports the Equality Act which would enshrine LGBTQ protections into the law, could be replaced by THE MAN WHO REMOVED AMERICA’S RIGHT TO ABORTION, whose Christian nationalist supporters want to END SEXUAL FREEDOM as we know it including TARGETING IVF AND BIRTH CONTROL, who wants to reverse LGBTQ discrimination law in favor of Christian bigots who hate queer and trans people, and who demonizes that community to win political support.

Ask yourself if you really think there’s no difference between the two. Ask yourself if a reasonable person given these facts would choose the latter. Ask yourself why you see so much propagandizing against the reasonable choice. Ask yourself why so many people seem to have opinions on this when they “don’t even go here”.

Maybe I’m just preaching to the choir here. Maybe people who say this inane stuff wouldn’t vote anyways. Maybe somehow we’re screwed anyways. Maybe people will stupidly vote third party and we’re fucked. Maybe this will get me attacked.

I don’t care anymore. If I have to see one more fucking post acting like we live under the fucking Evil Empire while a SELF PROCLAIMED DICTATOR is about to end the best streak of decent governance I’ve ever seen in a while, I just can’t anymore.

[jewkbox]

Palestinians deserve better than Hamas.

But Trumpamzees and their orange puppet master don't seem to distinguish between Palestinians and Hamas, or Muslims and extremists.

[mysharona1987]

“No toddler gets shot twice by mistake by the world’s best sniper.”

[vividdreamer]

Donald Trump is not anti-war.

Disclaimer: I am not pro-Kamala and I do not support the Democrats.

[cheesebongdynasty]

REFUSING TO VOTE DOESN'T WASH YOUR HANDS.

If you have the power to stop a terrible situation from getting 100× worse, and you choose not to act, you are complicit.

If you think Harris or her party has the option of simply cutting off Israel, you need to start paying attention to the world outside of one single conflict.

Cutting ties with Israel would just mean Netanyahu hooking up with Putin or China or some other powerful nation. Ignoring what that would mean for everyone else, how much do you think Putin cares about civilian death toll, or letting his enemies' civilians get aid?

If the U.S. washes its hands of this conflict, it will get vastly worse. And the U.S. would be responsible for letting it get worse.

Harris wants to end the war, bring home the hostages, and get a two-state solution done. (And the better Palestinians are living, the harder time Hamas will have brainwashing and recruiting them.)

Trump is about as chummy with Netanyahu as he is with Putin. (Understand that Israelis who aren't fundaloons hate Netanyahu, especially families of the hostages. Netanyahu is Israel's Trump.)

Harris and her party have nothing to gain and everything to lose by failing to bring this war to an end. Both with their voting base, and with international relations.

Trump doesn't think that far ahead. And we know what he thinks about Muslims and Arabs. And how much of a damn he really gives about the Jews. Or the longterm damage his actions have on any nation and the human beings who live in it.

Right now there are two fundamentalist forces contributing to the horrors in Gaza; Hamas and Netanyahu. Don't let a third power-hungry megalomaniac enter the ring. Don't let Netanyahu reunite with his orange bestie. Keep the fascist out of the White House this November.

[troythecatfish]

[averagegazan2]

Opinion: Trump's Win Bring About Wider Conflict with Iran

I have always believed that Gaza war will turn into a wider regional conflict between Iran and Israel, backed by the US. "Iran, Iran and Iran," replied Netanyahu to a question about his top priorities. I think, this hasn't changed a bit.

For a year, Netanyahu was setting the ground for Trump's return. He weekened Hamas and Hezbollah to mitigate their impact in the upcoming conflict with Iran, and picked a fight with Iran twice. Once, when he bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus and the other incident when he assassinated Hamas top-official, Ismail Haniyyeh, in Tehran.

Trump is in the white house, Netanyahu is driven by his political survival and his obsession with Iran, and sorrounded by messianic fanatics, like Ben Gvir and Smotrich. This is the perfect recipe for the doomsday war in the Middle East.