Summary
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich endorsed President-elect Donald Trumpās victory, stating itās ātimeā to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.
This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu highlighted his alignment with Trump on the āIranian threat.ā
Tensions in Gaza and Lebanon have escalated following recent Israeli airstrikes, with regional leaders gathering in Riyadh to address Israeli actions.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to meet President Biden, though Bidenās influence on Israel may be limited following Trumpās win.
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No, the least bad option is no genocide.
If everyone who tried to quell dissent on Harrisās policies on Gaza instead pushed on the administration I guarantee they wouldāve changed their mind. They adapted other issues through out the campaign. But they didnāt on this one because they thought they could get away with a genocide and still win the election.
And even your article says they donāt think Harris winning will stop the suffering either, so very motivating for people /s. If you want voters, you need to give them motivation. Apathy is the worst thing that can happen for turn out. Telling them to vote for the person killing their family sounds like the most demotivating thing I can think of. Itās not emotionally charged, well it is, but itās just electoral strategy, too.
The good news is that they have established their power as a coalition, and hopefully we can leverage this in the future. Now the Zionists arenāt the only votes they have to be scared of losing, and we can build on that to pull the Dems left. Maybe. I hope lol.
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What people? Those trying to push the party left so it doesnāt lose like this every year? Genocide victims? Sorry, but I will never feel bad about defending people fighting against a genocide or suffering from one. Youāre willing to try but my morals donāt bend that way.
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True, everyone has an opinion. The right says the Dems are too far left, but Kamala hewed to the center hard this time, including a record number of Republicans at the DNC, and still lost. There are a bunch of other reasons I think this keeps revealing itself to be false (blue candidates, including women, and ballot measures winning down ballot all over the country even in states that went to Trump, Trump winning on vague populist vibes of the economy as revealed in opinion polls with the other fascist part of his policies like immigration or scary trans people being ranked less in priority, his more multi-racial voters suggesting that too, the change in numbers between 2020 for Trump and Harris shows people not switching to conservative but instead just a depressed turn out, the Muslim vote numbers for Biden in 2020 being like 86% compared to Harris in 2024 being something like 40%, etc). She ran a standard Democratic campaign emblematic of not only the current administration but every one during their lifetime since Reagan, and people are tired of neoliberalism, although most canāt express that, they can still feel it. People hear about these nice, liberal policies, but they donāt see it reflected in their bank accounts, so they stop caring about the Democratās technocratic incremental 12 point plans after awhile, because theyāve heard these are happening under Biden, too, but they figure they must not do anything. But I guess thatās just another opinion lol.
I know other people think itās her not having enough time or Biden not dropping out soon enough or something. That might have helped give her more time to spread her policies, but I doubt that was the main reason. I still think she couldāve won with the right strategy with the time she had and that huge upswing of energy when she entered the race.
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Itās hard for people to believe that when the administration you are a part of says the same thing while continuing to arm the genocidal IDF army for the tunes of billions of dollars. Not to mention denying Palestinian speakers at the DNC while inviting families of hostages, bringing up October 7th first every interview and calling that the biggest tragedy, saying you wouldnāt change anything from the Biden campaign, emphasizing Israel every time Palestine is brought up before and after Palestine, kicking out a Muslim person in the audience at a rally, sending the cops after protestors, saying weāll have the most lethal army in the world, saying Iran is the worldās biggest threat while their neighbor is doing a genocide, her staff reiterating that an arms embargo was 100% off the table removing any chance of leverage to enact material change, Trump going to their community before you do, and it goes on and onā¦ That quote comes off insincere when everything else you do and say indicates the opposite. The fact that another red line has come and passed without the US changing position on Israel proves the Biden administrationās insincerity on this issue even more.
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Nah, itās because the White House purposefully and cynically used a different definition of the word ceasefire than the one all the activists and aid workers understood it to mean. This article explains it well. A ceasefire without leverage would cause the genocide to resume immediately after a hostage exchange, and everyone knows this because Israel is the aggressor and has been since the 1920ās. If her campaign didnāt clarify that an arms embargo is 100% off the table, against our own laws btw, than maybe just a call for a ceasefire wouldāve worked, but I doubt it without some sort of explanation of how she was going to accomplish it. She was willing to explain how sheād accomplish other policies, such as through tax credits and such, but not that one for some reason except to say Diplomacy which hasnāt worked for the last year, and everyone knows wonāt work now.
I hope not, because thatās what Iāve been saying about the Democratic electoral strategy since before the election lol. I see bullying as more ad hominem attacks, like telling people if they donāt vote for the person arming the person killing their family, youāll exult in them all dieing or getting deported. Not saying youāve done that specifically, buts itās gotten pretty racist in here lately (but not as bad as Reddit at least).
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The thing is, I thought it wouldāve been a lot easier to convince the candidate to change their genocide policy than convincing thousands of people to change their moral values. Essentially, itās because I wanted her to win that I foresaw a problem with her electoral strategy and kept trying to do something. Itās why I started that vote swapping thread that went nowhere and kept trying to encourage empathizing with the unhappy people in the US rather than ignoring them. Because I saw blaming the voters in 2016 didnāt fix shit, and instead weāre going to have to learn some lessons. But no one was learning them, instead trusting that 2020 wasnāt just a fluke because of the pandemic.
Idk man, I know weāre all hurt right now, but at this point Iām seriously losing hope in the Democratic party, and I blame them 1000% more than the voters because if I could see the mistakes being made thereās no way other more qualified people couldnāt either. If they win 2028 itās purely because continual enshittification and failing material conditions means that the voters will vote against anyone in power during the death throes of this falling empire, and not because theyāll change anything. Thatās my guess - that unless another Bernie-like figure with Obamaās charisma comes, in whoās also promising sweeping changes to the internal systems of the US and not just trying to treat the symptoms - that weāre going to be switching off on one-term Presidents forever.
At least some other people are realizing this, too. I just hope that the country is not too atomized to assemble some sort of alternate coalition before its too late. We need to get off these tracks before we fall into fascism.
Sorry for the length of all this, I wonāt blame you if you skip most of It. Adding spoiler tags so it doesnāt take up too much room in the thread. Honestly, this comment has been a great way to organize my thoughts and feeling on all this, too. It wasnāt when I started, I didnāt mean to subject you and Lemmy to it, I think weāre all just looking for catharsis right now lol.