#netanyahu resign

[ivovynckier]

Can Bibi explain why this nutcase is a cabinet minister?

[originalleftist]

Netanyahu is a corrupt, incompetent failure.

I'll quote the conclusion here:

"Since around January time, the US has negatively revised its assessment of Israel under Netanyahu. He does not behave as an ally, he has accrued a debilitating credibility deficit over the years on a multitude of issues, and he has intentionally failed to come up with a plan for postwar Gaza - to the point where he is now seriously suspected in Washington of prolonging the war for his own political survival antics. The current showdown over the security council resolution widens the rift to the point that it is impossible to see how the trajectory will change as long as Netanyahu is in power.

At the moment, the US has three points of disagreement with Israel regarding the details of the prosecution of the war: the notion that Israel is impeding humanitarian aid; the number of civilian non-combatant deaths; and a possible military invasion of Rafah, on the southern tip of Gaza. These differences could have been resolved had Netanyahu and Biden had a working, honest and good-faith relationship. They do not. In fact, Netanyahu has a track record of confrontations and frequent spats with US administrations, from George HW Bush through to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and now Biden. His -unsuccessful, it must be added -meddling in US politics is also a familiar trait of his since the 1990s.

The current state of relations is close to an inflection point, and could go in one of two directions: either Netanyahu is ousted or leaves or loses an election, or the US will be convinced that the bilateral ecosystem has faltered and warrants a major reassessment of relations. Under Netanyahu, Israel has reached the point at which its very value as an ally is being questioned. It took the US some time, but it finally seems to realise a simple fact: Israel may be an ally, but Netanyahu most certainly is not."

What this article doesn't explicitly state, though the implication is fairly obvious, is that there is at least one US President Netanyahu seems to have had a pretty good relationship with: Donald Trump. And one possible way out of the deterioration of US/Israel relations without him changing course or losing power- the departure of Joe Biden and the reelection of Donald Trump.

But sure, keep telling me how voting out Biden to protest the war in Gaza makes perfect sense, as opposed to what it actually is, which is throwing Bibi his only remaining political life line.

[nando161mando]

BREAKING: Major protest breaks out in Tel Aviv, Israel, calling for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign.

[falinscloaca]

j///wishlivesm///////////ter is 100% a genocide apologist for the record

addendum: it has come to my attention that at least one antisemite (or someone posing as such) has found this post. fuckoff. nothing you say will get me to agree with you on being antisemitic (OR decide we need an ethnostate for protection if thats what you are after) this is about a tumblr user and the blogs that person interacts with not all of us as a collective. eat shit.

addendum 2: i have obscured the username though i’m not entirely censoring the thing

[thccafeforzoomers]

[argaman01]

The pro-Hamas demonstrators in Washington, DC, today. They were supposedly protesting Netanyahu's speech to Congress, but they are actually calling for a Hamas victory over Israel. One man spray painted the slogan "Hamas is coming," with the upside down red triangle above it, on the Columbus monument. Other slogans - "All Zionists are bastards," "long live the resistance," and "Fuck Israel."

I'm no supporter of Netanyahu - he's a corrupt politician whose neglect of Israeli defense against Hamas allowed the attack in the south to happen. He's refusing to sign a hostage release agreement with Hamas. He doesn't care about the lives of Israelis, much less the lives of Palestinians. He should resign.

But - shouting out support of Hamas and calling for the destruction of Israel is not the way to protest Netanyahu!

[immaculatasknight]

The hyenas turn on each other

[gothicprep]

Intractable? Alright lemme go right ahead and tract it for you you piece of shit. Equal rights for Palestinians, right to return for the refugees, and an end to the literal genocide going on. How's that for you

I agree with those goals wholeheartedly – the intractable part is the policy process that can often be obstructive to making this possible, and Israel carries most of that burden. Likud has proved time and time again that peace isn’t important to them, and how they’ll act is unpredictable, even in extremely dire situations. It’s not a question of the ideal result, it’s how we get there, which remains very murky.

[agentfascinateur]

US State Department falsified report on Israeli atrocities

Gilbert was one of the experts consulted in drawing up the NSM-20 report, but she said it was taken out of their hands as it approached completion. “Sometime at the end of April, the subject matter experts were taken off the report and we were told it would be edited at a higher level.

This warrants a call for Blinken's resignation.

[thccafeforzoomers]

50 bodies by the IDF and 600 bodies by Mississippi police. All these pigs are from the same farm.

[bopinion]

2024 / 39

Aperçu of the week

“Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.”

(Leonard Cohen song line that the recently deceased country musician and actor Kris Kristofferson chose for his gravestone)

Bad News of the Week

Iran has always seen itself as Israel's arch-enemy. And yet it has always shied away from direct confrontation. The Shiite mullahs have rarely taken direct action against the Jewish state and the Sunnis from the Arabian Peninsula, but rather with their vassal-like militias: the Houthi in Yemen, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. In the current spiral of violence in the Middle East over the past year or so, there have only been isolated incidents between Israel and Iran. It almost seems as if they are cautiously feeling each other out.

This balance of impending terror could now finally be thrown out of kilter. On the one hand, Benjamin Netanyahu is now targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon after largely destroying Hamas. In an address to his citizens, there was really no room for misunderstanding: “We are not waiting for the threat, we are anticipating it - everywhere, on every front, at all times. We are eliminating officials and terrorists, we are destroying missiles - and we are not finished yet. Anyone who tries to harm us, we harm even more.” And the words were followed by deeds. First, the south of Lebanon was bombed across the board, then hundreds of mini-bombs exploded in pagers and walkie-talkies, and finally Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed.

The short-term development can be foreseen. Iran and Israel will continue to fight each other from afar on a limited scale - missiles will fly, but no air force will be used for bombing. Israel will infiltrate southern Lebanon with ground troops. Militant settlers will continue to attack Palestinians in the West Bank. Isolated Arab terrorists will carry out local attacks in Israel. Politicians around the world will call for de-escalation, which both the mullahs and Netanyahu's government couldn't care less about. Anti-Semitic incidents will increase worldwide.

The long-term development cannot be predicted. Will Israel occupy southern Lebanon - like the Golan Heights, which were annexed in 1967 in violation of international law? Will the USA also take part in Israeli offensive actions against Iran - as it will continue to do defensively in any case? Will the still local conflict spread further, for example to Syria - and will Vladimir Putin then continue to stay out of it? Will there be widespread hostility against Jews worldwide - who actually have nothing to do with Israel's actions? Will Germany unequivocally adhere to the raison d'état of pro-Israeli partisanship - even if Israel commits imperialist acts? How will neighboring middle powers such as Saudi Arabia or Turkey behave?

Only one thing is certain: the Middle East as a whole has not been this close to a fundamental abyss for a long time. After decades of more internal conflicts - such as the civil war in Syria, the implosion of Iraq, the takeover attempts by various IS groups, etcetera - it now seems possible that the powder keg that the region has always been will explode. Because the fuse is burning. I'm really sorry that the Arab world just won't calm down.

Good News of the Week

Austria has voted. And as expected, the right-wing Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has won the election and will form the largest parliamentary group in the National Council, Austria's parliament. So will this be the second Western European country after Italy to be governed by the right? And will the extreme right-wing party leader Herbert Kickl, who already calls himself “People's Chancellor”, become head of government? Not necessarily.

A quick look back: the FPÖ has already been in government several times, but always as a junior partner. The last coalition with the conservative ÖVP (Austrian People's Party) collapsed in 2019 when the party leadership's willingness to engage in corruption became public as part of the so-called Ibiza affair. Since then, the FPÖ has become even more radicalized, especially since the party leadership passed to Kickl in 2021, becoming increasingly racist and anti-Semitic, pandering to Russia and wanting to reduce migration to zero: “Fortress Austria”. With this program, it already came first in the European elections in June and was able to build on this success in the national elections last Sunday.

So why don't I look on the black side for our southern neighbor? Because I believe in democracy and its ability to heal itself. The most recent example is Thuringia. In the state elections there, a right-wing party (the AfD, of course) was also the strongest force and yet seems to have ended up on the sidelines. This is because the state organs, especially the constitutional court, are functioning and the other parties are standing together in rare unity. This is why the first attempt to seize power last week - the election of the president of the state parliament - did not work out; the post went to the conservative CDU. So there is hope that it will be possible to form a government without the right.

That's exactly what I wish for the Alpine Republic. And it looks good. Oskar Deutsch, President of the Israelite Religious Society, which had just been shocked by the singing of an SS allegiance song by FPÖ politicians at a funeral, puts the election success into perspective: “More than 71 percent of voters voted for parties that explicitly opposed the FPÖ's participation in government”. He is right about that. Now it is up to the Austrian president, the former Green Alexander Van der Bellen. Because he must give a party the official mandate to form a government. This is normally given to the largest parliamentary group in the National Council.

But Van der Bellen has deliberately left this open. First, the old government will be dismissed and then entrusted with the continuation of business. After that, he wants to hold talks with all party leaders. The aim now is to talk to each other, find compromises and a viable majority. In the run-up to the election, when the FPÖ was clearly ahead in all forecasts, he emphasized that it was important to him “that the cornerstones of our liberal democracy are respected” when forming a government. This was seen by many political experts as the opposite of a free pass for Kickl. A march to power certainly looks different.

Personal happy moment of the week

After all kinds of scheduling back and forth, we did manage to meet up for three quarters of an hour. For 36 years, “Groovy” from the USA and I hadn't seen each other since our time together as teenagers in Canada. But now she and her husband stopped off in Munich on their way from Austria to Switzerland - coincidentally, of all times, for the Oktoberfest. And we were able to have at least a brief meet and greet. Lovely.

I couldn't care less...

...that French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed his new government under conservative Prime Minister Michel Barnier. Nothing against Barnier himself, who I think is a good politician. But with this appointment, Macron is ignoring the will of the electorate, which is tending to the left, by making his government, without a majority of his own in parliament, entirely dependent on the toleration of Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National. I really hope that I simply haven't understood the ingenious master plan behind this...

It's fine with me...

...that FIFA's transfer regulations are apparently in breach of European law. The way they have been handled up to now has always reminded me a little of noble slavery.

As I write this...

...the extent of the damage caused by hurricane “Helene” in the USA becomes visible - in terms of human lives and material. Politicians from every party and at every level show compassion and pledge solidarity. At the same time, no one is naming the cause, let alone doing anything about it.

Post Scriptum

Following the devastating defeat in the Brandenburg state elections, the Green leadership duo Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour announce their resignation after the party conference in November. The Greens had formed the (red-black-green) Kenya coalition together with the Social Democrats and Conservatives and now, with 4.1% of the vote, did not even make it into the state parliament. Yes, this was also due to the federal trend, which has seen the two smaller coalition partners, the Greens and the Liberals, fall by the wayside. And for which the Liberal FDP bears the main blame with its eternal nagging about its own government work. The result: 0.8% in Brandenburg, which is less than half of the Animal Welfare Party. And less than “Plus Brandenburg”, which I have never heard of. Is there a leadership crisis in the Liberals because of this? No. All the dignitaries are firmly in the saddle, no one wants to take responsibility or draw consequences.

With the Greens, on the other hand, no stone has been left unturned. Following the announced resignation of the entire party leadership - in addition to the co-chairs, their two deputies as well as the managing director and federal treasurer - further resignations followed. Or even party exits, especially from the youth organization “Grüne Jugend”. This reveals a difference in perception that could not be more extreme: While the Greens in the federal government are fighting against the image of the “ideologically blinded prohibition party”, the young see their ideals betrayed in their ingratiation with the mainstream. A generally advantageous way out is therefore anything but obvious. Particularly against the backdrop of the current shift to the right and the Left Party's struggle for survival, the Greens are not only of fundamental importance as a declared party for sustainability, but also as a proverbial alternative.

[originalleftist]

Massive protests in Tel Aviv demanding a deal to get hostages back (this would presumably entail a ceasefire), and Netanyahu's resignation.

I've seen different numbers- some say 45,000 protesters, while the organizers apparently claim 100,000. But even the low end is a lot, considering Israel's small population, and the context in which this is occurring.

Some Googling puts that at just shy of .5% of Israel's population- which might not seem like a lot, but most people never actually engage in protests. As a percent of population, it's equivalent to somewhere upwards of 1.5 million people at a single protest in the US.

Now, consider that this is happening while a major war is actively on-going, just under 6 months since October 7th. Can anyone imagine 1.5 million Americans demanding Bush's resignation 6 months after 911? It would have been utterly unthinkable.

Do not ever let anyone tell you Netanyahu speaks for, or represents, all Israelis.

[beautifulpaxiel]

L'CHAIM!!

[thethief1996]

700 Palestinians were killed in the last 24 hours and the airstrikes are more violent each night. Gaza's hospitals have fuel left for two more days. Israel only allowed aid into Gaza on the condition they didn't carry fuel. The Indonesian hospital has shut down already, because doctors have no supplies and no choice but to let the wounded die. They're calling it a collapse but the term doesn't do it justice.

Over a 100 incubator babies are at risk. There are 50.000 pregnant women in Gaza right now, and 5.500 due to give birth this month. Menstruating people are taking pills in order to stop their periods, because they do not have pads or water to maintain hygiene. Surgeons are operating without anesthesia. Water is not reaching Gazans because there's no electricity or fuel for water pumps.

There's no excuse for this. Israel justifies the airstrikes by saying they want to destroy Hamas infrastructure and release the hostages, but they have refused to negotiate for their release. Hamas informed Israel they wanted to release two elderly women without anything in return, and Israel refused. Netanyahu said they wouldn't take their own civilians back because it was "mendacious propaganda." When the hostages were finally released, Netanyahu prohibited the hospital from giving press releases. Yocheved Lifshitz went behind their backs and talked to the press anyway, saying she was treated very well by Hamas, but the government abandoned them. They're being used as straw men. Israel is conditioning the entry of fuel to the release of hostages and yet, according to The Wall Street Journal, when Hamas proposed to exchange 50 hostages for fuel they denied. IDF officials have said they fear the release of more hostages because that might withhold the order to their ground invasion. They do not care as long as they can use the hostages as a pretext for their slaughtering.

There's a turning tide for Palestine in public support. Support for Israel was built through decades of propaganda and we are making a dent into it. Zionists are desperate, holding zoom meetings to promote zionism, but we have to do so much more. We have to shame people in power into supporting the Palestinian cause.

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices, looking to inform yourself from the sources. Palestinians have asked of us only that we share, tweet and post, over and over. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:

Al Jazeera

Anadolu Agency

Mondoweiss

Boycott Divest Sanction Movement

Palestinian Youth Movement

Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)

Al-Shabaka (twitter / instagram)

Mariam Barghouti (twitter / instagram)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza

Take action. You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting (don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. Only boycott additional brands if you can):

Carrefour

HP

Puma

Sabra

Sodastream

Ahava cosmetics

Israeli fruits and vegetables

Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)

If you can, participate in direct action or donate. Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London. Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.

Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN GERMANY: Here's a toolkit to contact your representatives by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN IRELAND: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN POLAND: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN DENMARK: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN SWEDEN: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine

FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada

Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

USA calendar

Australia calendar

Here are upcoming events:

CANBERRA/NGUNNAWAL, AUSTRALIA – Wed Oct 25, 11 am, National Press Club. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyh1xy1BMrU/

OXFORD, ENGLAND – Wed Oct 25, 12:15 pm, Cornmarket. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CykroKeInz3/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

SMITH COLLEGE (US) – Wed Oct 25, 12 pm, Chapin Lawn. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CymT8f5vnHN/?img_index=1

ST CATHERINES, ON ( CANADA) – Wed Oct 25, 6 pm, 61 Geneva St Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/889319005528757/

TORONTO, CANADA – Wed Oct 25, 5 pm, Sidney Smith Hall. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyjVbpGvva8/

SANT CUGAT, CATALONIA, SPAIN – Thurs Oct 26, 6 pm, Davant l’Ajuntament. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CynL834tgg9/?img_index=4

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – Fri Oct 27, 7 pm, Federation Square. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyhyd0vhP8t/

LIVORNO, ITALY – Sat Oct 28, 2:30 pm, Piazza Cavour. Info https://www.instagram.com/p/CyiWJ06MXpM/

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (US) – Sat Oct 28, 1 pm, Lake Street and Minnehaha.

ROME, ITALY – Sat Oct 28, Rome. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyi7ey-MMs1/?img_index=1

ROME, ITALY – Sat Nov 4, Rome. Info TBA: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyndKUitnMU/

WASHINGTON, DC (USA) – Sat Nov 4, 12 pm, White House. Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/CyiecRtr9-B/

Wollongong: Rally at Crown Street Mall Amphitheatre on 21 Oct at 1 PM

Melbourne: Blak and Palestinian Solidarity Rally at Victorian Parliament House Steps on 25 Oct at 6 PM

HOUSTON: Thursday, October 26th, 5:45PM, Rice University, Central Quad

VANCOUVER: OCT 28 at 2PM, Vancouver Art Gallery

KITCHENER: Wednesday October 25th at 5 PM at CBC Kitchener

SANTA ANA: 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701, October 25th at 5:30 pm

TORONTO: WED. OCT 25 at 7PM at Queen's Park

[CAR RALLY] WASHINGTON D.C: Wednesday 10/25 outside the US State Department on the 23rd Street side

Feel free to add more.

[thccafeforzoomers]

Zionist scum when they come across posts calling out the genocide that israel is conducting on Palestinians.

[immaculatasknight]

Kosher psychopathy