“Hi Benny, no more weapons for you :) Call me back babe if you want to talk about it.”
When Netanyahu calls back in a panic, simply repeat the phrase “stop the genocide or we will never give you military assistance again” until he hangs up.
It really doesn’t matter what words you choose, Israel is a colonial outpost of the US, we utterly control the trajectory of the nation and to pretend otherwise is to swipe an absolutely astounding amount of military, monetary and political enablement under the rug that we have showered endlessly on Israel while it slaughters Palestinians.
And then the US pro-Israel lobby call their senators who inform that if Mr Caller still wants to be employed in a few days, the guns need to keep flowing.
And then that politician spectacularly loses in the next election even though they outspent their opponent by 10 times and it helps sink the idea that AIPAC is still powerful or holds any sway over the opinions of the average person in the US.
It ultimately doesn’t matter. Regardless of the outcome of the election, things weren’t going to change in the short term. It wasn’t an issue that was relevant to the election because of this.
At least there was a small chance that Harris was toeing the AIPAC line to get last minute campaign funding, then would change her stance back to what it was when she was VP.
I didn’t follow her campaign remarks on the genocide super closely, but what I did see from her was always a political non-answer.
Regardless of the outcome of the election, things weren’t going to change in the short term. It wasn’t an issue that was relevant to the election because of this.
It is voters that decide what is relevant, not the politicians.
Then the voters are stupid. There was no realistic option in the 2024 election that was guaranteed good for Palestine. Period.
By abstaining from voting, you said that you were fine with two+ genocides instead of one.
You don’t always get perfect choices for political candidates, but in this instance one choice was orders of magnitude worse than the other. And now instead of getting 4 years to try to push progressivism, we get an untold amount of time fighting against trump and his handlers.
So you were one of the people who were cool with letting Trump enact Project 2025.
It’s not like his behavior is a surprise. They literally published exactly what they were going to do and are doing it.
Protest voting or abstaining in the 2024 presidential election didn’t hurt the DNC, and it didn’t teach them a lesson. It hurt you and every other vulnerable person in the country. It hurt people dependent of USAID, it hurt the Ukrainians, it hurt Cuba, and it hurt Venezuela.
Stopping putting words in my mouth that I did not say and have an actual conversation with the person in front of you, not this strawman you keep shoving in front of me while I am trying to make a different point that you refuse to listen to because you are sure I did something and am proud of it that I have repeatedly said I did not do.
Yes, and try running a presidential campaign on that and see how it works out for you.
Democrats tried to play the demographics, and they lost. Their courting the center was 100% a utilitarian move.
If they had gone all out on Israel/Palestine, they would have lost BIG. Unfortunately, it’s only very recently that people have staretd to come around regarding Israel.
The most popular politicians in the US are vocal about stopping the Palestinian Genocide, so yeah I absolutely would take that strategy if I was going to run.
Do you have… any basis for your beliefs or is this just all feelings and no facts for you?
Give sources for your evidence or stop repeating lazy narratives like this. You devalue this entire conversation by diluting the meaningful parts of it with your arguments towards people you imagine exist and are most definitely in the room right now with us like some kind of ghost you keep insisting is present that none of the rest of us can see.
I just don’t believe that at all. The power the US holds has long faded into a shadow of its former self. I’m not even sure Trump could convince BB of the best breakfast spot in manhattan. Regardless of what the POTUS wants to happen in the Middle East, the Middle East will continue to do its thing.
Bullshit, if we wanted the Palestinian Genocide to stop we could make Israel stop with a single phonecall.
What would that phone call entail?
“Hi Benny, no more weapons for you :) Call me back babe if you want to talk about it.”
When Netanyahu calls back in a panic, simply repeat the phrase “stop the genocide or we will never give you military assistance again” until he hangs up.
It really doesn’t matter what words you choose, Israel is a colonial outpost of the US, we utterly control the trajectory of the nation and to pretend otherwise is to swipe an absolutely astounding amount of military, monetary and political enablement under the rug that we have showered endlessly on Israel while it slaughters Palestinians.
And then the US pro-Israel lobby call their senators who inform that if Mr Caller still wants to be employed in a few days, the guns need to keep flowing.
And then that politician spectacularly loses in the next election even though they outspent their opponent by 10 times and it helps sink the idea that AIPAC is still powerful or holds any sway over the opinions of the average person in the US.
It ultimately doesn’t matter. Regardless of the outcome of the election, things weren’t going to change in the short term. It wasn’t an issue that was relevant to the election because of this.
At least there was a small chance that Harris was toeing the AIPAC line to get last minute campaign funding, then would change her stance back to what it was when she was VP.
I didn’t follow her campaign remarks on the genocide super closely, but what I did see from her was always a political non-answer.
It is voters that decide what is relevant, not the politicians.
FTFY
Then the voters are stupid. There was no realistic option in the 2024 election that was guaranteed good for Palestine. Period.
By abstaining from voting, you said that you were fine with two+ genocides instead of one.
You don’t always get perfect choices for political candidates, but in this instance one choice was orders of magnitude worse than the other. And now instead of getting 4 years to try to push progressivism, we get an untold amount of time fighting against trump and his handlers.
No, this is not how it works and the Democratic party will not win until it stops with this condescending voters shit.
If politicians refuse to listen to voters, the system is irrevocably headed for collapse, it seems like maybe you are in denial about that?
So you were one of the people who were cool with letting Trump enact Project 2025.
It’s not like his behavior is a surprise. They literally published exactly what they were going to do and are doing it.
Protest voting or abstaining in the 2024 presidential election didn’t hurt the DNC, and it didn’t teach them a lesson. It hurt you and every other vulnerable person in the country. It hurt people dependent of USAID, it hurt the Ukrainians, it hurt Cuba, and it hurt Venezuela.
It certainly didn’t help Palestine.
Stopping putting words in my mouth that I did not say and have an actual conversation with the person in front of you, not this strawman you keep shoving in front of me while I am trying to make a different point that you refuse to listen to because you are sure I did something and am proud of it that I have repeatedly said I did not do.
They decided that, “kill them all and build a Trump resort there” was better than a political non-answer.
Yes, and try running a presidential campaign on that and see how it works out for you.
Democrats tried to play the demographics, and they lost. Their courting the center was 100% a utilitarian move.
If they had gone all out on Israel/Palestine, they would have lost BIG. Unfortunately, it’s only very recently that people have staretd to come around regarding Israel.
The most popular politicians in the US are vocal about stopping the Palestinian Genocide, so yeah I absolutely would take that strategy if I was going to run.
Do you have… any basis for your beliefs or is this just all feelings and no facts for you?
Those people don’t fucking vote.
And that is a very recent turnaround. It’s only been very recently that people have started to come around on Israel.
Give sources for your evidence or stop repeating lazy narratives like this. You devalue this entire conversation by diluting the meaningful parts of it with your arguments towards people you imagine exist and are most definitely in the room right now with us like some kind of ghost you keep insisting is present that none of the rest of us can see.
I just don’t believe that at all. The power the US holds has long faded into a shadow of its former self. I’m not even sure Trump could convince BB of the best breakfast spot in manhattan. Regardless of what the POTUS wants to happen in the Middle East, the Middle East will continue to do its thing.
Get out of here with your poetry, the bombs Israel drops are made in my backyard.
The idea that we don’t have decisive leverage over Netanyahu is absurd and laughable.