It’s hard to paint them as the baddies when they’re the only ones trying to stop a country ran by genocidal religious extremists from continuing their genocide that’s already been going on over half a year…
The human rights abuses have been going on pretty much the whole time Israel has existed…
But what has been happening the past 7 months isn’t normal.
And is only happening because our current president has spent a lifetime saying hell never stop supporting Israel.
They’ve tried a lot to take it this far, but regardless of who was in office and what party they were from, the US president draws a line in the sand and Israel chills out some.
They just don’t respect Biden, to the point when he draws a line, they immediately and obviously jump over it while yelling at Biden for drawing the line they didn’t care about.
What is happening now is not normal, just look at how the last Dem president handled this shit:
Biden recounted in private that when he was vice president in 2014 and Israel mounted a military assault on Gaza, Obama and his staff rejected his belief, held for decades, that the best way to approach the Israelis is to hug them close but not criticize them, the people familiar with his comments said.
Instead, they said Biden has noted, Obama publicly admonished Israel’s actions and voiced concern for Palestinian civilian deaths early into the 2014 conflict. As a result, Biden has argued, Obama squandered any ability to influence the Israeli government as it invaded Gaza, said the people familiar with his comments.
They said Biden’s message when he revisited the 2014 debate was: I was right then, and I am right now.
When it comes to Israel, either Biden is completely ignorant, or this is the result he wants.
What Obama did cooled things down, what Biden says was the right move, leads to one of the largest and most destructive genocides in modern history.
And he’s proud of it and bragging about how he knows more than anyone else, while refusing to listen to protestors, voters, and likely his advisors/campaign team.
He’s going to keep doing whatever he wants, because he feels entitled to our votes because no matter what, trump is worse.
America is at a very dangerous place right now because we have to accept anything that’s not trump and have no say in who that is.
For these particular groups the article says the exact opposite.
But on Nov. 2 they claimed their first ever attack on Israel.
In general it is pretty rare for anyone to directly attack Israel other than groups they created through their various occupations, mainly Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
No. Israel has started it’s genocide the day Zionism was created and militias started forcing Palestinians out of their homes and killing them in the first place.
Ah OK, I can’t read apparently. I thought you meant the attacks from Iraqi militias have been going on longer than the current Israeli invasion. I agree with your original comment.
This is not a surprise. Just as Israel’s far-right is resisting a ceasefire agreement, so is Hamas’s benefactor. If Hamas won’t attack, and the US is protecting the Red Sea from the Houthis, Iran will attack directly.
Iran has been fighting this proxy war through Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis since 1985.
BRICS is less about alliances, in fact the UAE and Iran are enemies to the level of the US and Russia. It’s more about reducing the influence of Western sections on global politics. Basically anyone not reliant on the West financially would benefit from joining BRICS since it reduces the leverage the West has over them.
ETA: it’s a similar concept to OPEC where many countries are outright enemies.
Also, BRICS is rumored to be starting its own currency and we have already seen stuff like Sri Lanka using rupees to deal with its economic crisis. That's going to be very attractive to some countries hence the clamour to join.
It’s a funny place - so obviously a result of its geographical location. It had its era of power-struggling against other Mediterranean civilizations, but as soon as the known world expanded out to include Asia, Turkey, stuck literally at the crossroads between the two, started playing both sides against the middle. And that’s what it’s done ever since.
If Israel goes out of Gaza the whole war was meaningless for them, similar to Ukraine’s demands for Russia to give back everything. I don’t think they can do that, that would be political suicide at home for them.
Israel even violated the temporary ceasefire by shooting and killing civilians in Gaza at the start of it to impose arbitrary rules that were never agreed upon.
Out of Israel’s 191 violations, 10% resulted in death and 42% in injuries or detentions; while out of the 75 Palestinian violations, just 4% resulted in injuries and none in death.
reuters.com
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