Exactly. Every time the UN does something, people say “they can’t enforce it”.

Well, that’s the whole point of the UN. To resolve things without using force.

It’s a good design, designed by people who learned from the horrors of WW2.

It’s sad to see how many people nowadays forget those lessons and are itching for global war.

TIL it is anti-semitic to be against genocide.

Thank you. I thought I had checked Wikipedia.

It seems smack in the middle between Eritrea and Yemen.

Does anyone know exactly where in the red sea this is?

I want to know if it’s in Yemens territorial waters or not.

He said those things towards the end of his life after he had been smeared for years.

Prior to that interview in 1983, he had criticized Israel for the atrocities they committed in Lebanon and people called him an anti-semite for comparing Israel to Nazi-Germany.

Eventually, he said fuck it, and went full anti-semite.

I don’t blame the guy. He’s only human and people can only take so much shit before they turn into bitter old men.

I used to think Jeremy Corbyn was an anti-semite. I also used to think Roald Dahl was an anti-semite.

But after researching what they actually said, it’s clear that they were just smeared, because they weren’t racist enough against Palestinians and (shockingly) thought Palestinians deserve human rights.

Honestly, I am now highly skeptical whenever someone calls another person an anti-semite.

And they are labelled Russian bots by… Israeli bots.

It’s so obvious, it’s actually insane.

In the real world, the progressive, educated people are all against the genocide, but the politicians and the media (including social media) are so obviously censoring, it’s insane.

I placed a comment on reddit that Netanyahu was the one opposing the ceasefire. Something that is even reported by mainstream media.

I got told I was wrong and Hamas is to blame and I got -50 votes in a few minutes, in a comment thread that was 4 layers from the top on an article that didn’t even hit the frontpage.

If it wasn’t bots, it would go maybe -2 or +4 and probably less than 50 people would have ever even seen the comment.

But they are just monitoring anything that mentions keywords like Netanyahu and then the bots immediately act.

When I place similar comments and use csfire, nyahoo and Hgroup the bots don’t find it and the voting remains normal.

The way you (and others in this sub) approach it is very all-or-nothing and very ineffective.

We should say, “thanks Lizzy for speaking up, we appreciate you and we would ask you to support an arms embargo so that our tax money doesn’t go towards killing innocent children”.

This is exactly what the more effective anti-genocide activists are doing.

When have politicians ever done something that wasn’t for optics?

To get change requires positive reinforcement. Next time, she might go a step further. Every time she says something, some in her audience get the chance to realize that it’s not anti-semitic to condemn the killing of children.

This is why AIPAC didn’t want any Palestinian speaking at the DNC and why they spent millions against Bowman and Bush. Because they don’t want to normalize criticism of Israel.

That’s the current door that needs to be opened wide in the mainstream.

To get change, critical mass is needed.

I even applaud Candace Owens and Dan Bilzerian for speaking out, even though I don’t agree with them on anything else.

I fully agree.

The only way to get more people to support Palestine is if people who currently support Israel change.

And that was and is true for every improvement in the world.

Not saying Elizabeth Warren should be free of criticism, but at least give her the tiniest amount of credit when she does take a step in the right direction.

At least she condemned it.

I have to confess, some of us are a little bit slow to learn. When Aron Bushnell immolated himself in protest, I thought it was an overreaction.

But now I know, and I am happy Elizabeth Warren is speaking out, because we need more people with power to see the reality and make it stop.

US support will slow down towards 2050.

And not just direct support for Israel, but also the billions being spent to pay off Egypt and Jordan.

Younger people aren’t supportive of Israel and the dependency on oil will lessen year by year, while climate change will wreck the region. Ultimately, oil is what drives US interest in the region.

So no, I doubt whether Israel as a nation will reach the 100 year mark and it definitely will not surpass the 192 years that the Kingdom of Jerusalem lasted.

The only way they survive as a nation is through peace with their neighbors and they basically don’t have peace with any neighbor, aside from the ones being bribed/threatened by the USA.

That said, for the current generation of Palestinians, things look really bad. It’s nauseating how they are being massacred.

Not Bibi, but AIPAC and CUFI.

And also, the Democratic party itself is quite Zionist, with Blinken en Shapiro perhaps the most well known Zionists.

Democrats don’t want AIPAC and CUFI to support Trump. Wavering on Israel will actually rile up the evangelicals to turn out massively for Republicans.

The sad fact of the matter is that 75% of the American electorate will support Israel regardless of how many kids they kill.

And the remaining 25% are actually split between Republican and Democratic voters and don’t hold sway in either party.

How to win votes 101

Supporters of Bush and Bowman now face a strange incentive.

If they vote for Latimer and Bell, they will only embolden AIPAC and corporate America to use the same playbook in the districts of other progressive Democrats. And they will have them as incumbents in 2026.

If they do a protest vote (third party, write-in or stay home), that sends a clear message, but also gives the Republicans a +1.

On the face it, it would suck if the Republicans win their district, but also consider that a Republican win will (a) ensure Democrats field a progressive in 2026 and (b) show both Democrats and Republicans that the progressive vote is powerful and can be courted.

So it might actually be a good strategy. Look at 2016. Yeah, four years of Trump sucked, but it also made Democrats realize they had to court their progressive win. Corporate Hilary just couldn’t win without them.

Knowing this, there is also a Dark Brandon, scorched earth, move available: Vote directly for the Republican and give them a +2.

This will show progressives know how to yield their voting power and that they should be taken seriously as a group.

So he was 31 years old and he hasn’t done it since. He is now 60.

Is this the best they got on him? Lmao

Dear OP, if you have TikTok, you might be interested in this video:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZIJnoMsQ6/

Short version: it seems AIPAC hates Shapiro and is running a PsyOps against him because he doesn’t like Netanyahu, favors a two-state solution and they can’t call him an anti-semite.

I don’t know what to think, but shit is complex.

Wait until you learn where the Nazi’s got the idea that they should genocide their minorities and steal land from their neighbors

!they were inspired by what the Americans did with the natives !<

Also, there are more Bosnians today than before the genocide against them. Genocide is not a numbers thing.

And second, most people will say that Israel is guilty of apartheid and ethnic cleansing between 1948 and 2023.

The genocide only started in 2023 after the attacks and is limited to Gaza.

Honestly, they almost all support the genocide and they all want war with Lebanon and Iran. The only Democrats opposing it are getting primaried hard.

The USA must have greenlighted the attack on Haniyeh, and very likely also helped carry it out.

So yeah, I get you. If I were American, I would probably still vote for Kamala, but it’s all very Orwellian.