This weekās ābreakthroughā in ceasefire negotiations to end the genocidal campaign against Gaza came, according to regional sources, after a single intervention by US president-elect Trumpās designated envoy Steve Witkoff in which he ordered Netanyahuās government to capitulate.
While we might be skeptical of Trumpās habit of claiming credit for any progress, it was corroborated by the far-right members of the Netanyahu government erupting into the kind of tantrum for which they are now world-famous, framing the deal as a disaster imposed on āIsraelā by the incoming administration.
In the aftermath of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Biden, while parroting āIsraelāsā atrocity propaganda about beheaded infants in ovens, gave Netanyahu a carte blanche to declare total war on the people of Gaza. As the unique scale of the atrocities in the Strip became clear, Biden proceeded, through his spineless UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, to provide diplomatic cover for the genocide at the Security Council.
In June, Biden lied that a ceasefire deal had finally been reached, that it was at the initiative of the Netanyahu government, and that the Israeli leadership had accepted it. Secretary of State Antony Blinken clownishly trumpeted this falsehood, along with the claim that the only impediment to the ceasefire was Hamasā refusal of its terms. It was well known at the time to be a lie, but the breakthrough of the last week confirms it beyond all doubt.
Total liberal cope.
They canāt fathom that theyāre wrong and trump (so far) is the less evil option on the israel issue.
These people think the entire universe revolves around conspiracies to attack the Democrats. They cannot fathom that the Democrats are evil themselves.
I read a comment about how the entire genocide was staged by Israel to tank Bidens popularity. Like wow. Palestinians are experiencing a literal genocide at the hands of the Democrats, and somehow Liberals believe Democrats are the real victim.
I think thereās some truth to israel wanting to give trump the political win over biden, but it doesnāt make sense materially when biden has been Israelās number one supporter since he joined congress a million years ago and has given $17bn in aid/weapons since October 7ā¦
Iām still suspicious of everyone involved, but so far trump is turning out to be the lesser of two evils on this issue.
Iāve been anti democrat for a while. In 2008 I thought Obama was full of shit and just really slick at saying things people wanted to hear - turns out I was right. I voted Ron Paul. In 2012 I was so disgusted by mitt Romneys ātakersā comment that I held my nose and voted Obama despite really not liking him (forever wars continued, Wall Street bailed out while Main Street got sold out, increased power of the security state). In 2016 I canvassed and voted for Bernie and then when he got royally fucked by the democrats I stayed home. In 2020, after trumps abysmal performance, I held my nose and voted for biden, to immediate regret. He broke every promise other than ānothing will fundamentally changeā, worse, I find his admin to be mostly responsible for the genocide, sharing blame with Israel. But israel probably couldnāt of done what they did without American help.
The worst part about the genocide, besides all the death, is that genocide doesnāt really happen without an advance in technology. One of the best lessons I learned from Hebrew school (Iām Jewish!) was that the Holocaust would of not been possible without the cooperation and advancement of industry, especially IBM. What I see today is terrifying. Israel is using AI to scan social media for targets and then carpet bombing them. But itās the use of AI to make decisions in who to target thatās truly terrifying. Regardless of who you vote for, what your position is on Israel, etc, this is a major change and like all of our wars eventually the blowback will find its way to the imperial core: us.
I agree thatās itās liberal cope, but I wouldnāt go so far as to assume that Trump will turn out to have been the less evil option. We were not given practicable non-evil option. Of course we werenāt.
Solely on the israel issue and still to be determined. But for now, on that issue alone, less evil.
The fact that we donāt have non evil versions is why the US is a failed country.
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The lives of tens of thousands of foreigners will always be collateral to you chauvinistic fucks.
You seem to have replied to the wrong comment. The only other possibility is a failure in reading comprehension.
I think itās fantastic that lives will be temporarily saved.
Anyone who thinks this happened because Trump wants Gaza to be a better place for the people living there today is seeing what they want to see.
No, fuck off. I read your comment, and you declared the saving of tens of thousands of lives to be collateral to what you considered the more important issue of whether Trump is a good person or whatever. That is the classic behavior of American liberal chauvinists: far more concerned with the personal virtue and decorum of the para-social figures in their political drama than with the actual material effects on peopleās lives.
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Well somehow I clicked delete instead of edit on my reply of a minute ago.
What I said was - No, I think you are being given crumbs to get you to embrace fascism, and I think itās working.
But then what I attempted to edit it to add was - and before you say it, the crumbs arenāt the people. The crumbs are the brief pause so Trump can use the political power he gains to cement himself. Then he will let Netanyahu off the leash and itās not going to stop this time. Thatās my prediction.
Ok, go fuck yourself.
Deeply unserious person, like all BlueMAGA shitlibs
Man you need to work on some better insults. Those barely registered.
Yeah, sure. Are you going to say youāre actually laughing next?