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Trump plans to lift the Biden administration’s freeze on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and reverse sanctions against Israeli settlers.

  • dx1@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    He lifted this ban,

    I’ll say it again. Biden sent FOURTEEN THOUSAND of these bombs already - and that was as of 7 months ago. Enough to literally wipe out half of the population of Gaza.

    recognizes the settlements

    The fact that you’d say this without specifying which ones really speaks to how little you know about this. The Golan Heights, which the Biden admin already calls as “Israel”? East Jerusalem & the West Bank, which the Clinton admin bantustan-ized in the Oslo Accords and which every subsequent admin recognizes the Palestine side of even less? The Biden administration does not recognize the international consensus on “Israel” having the pre-1967 borders. They don’t recognize Palestine, at odds with the international consensus. The entire country was literally formed by ethnic cleansing in the first place. The Biden administration did like three token sanctions on random West Bank settlers, with no recognition that state officials were behind the policy of annexation and the complicity of the military in it.

    And what “free election”? 8 years of Biden & Obama admins came and went. The last election in Palestine was under BUSH, and the official U.S. policy, after Hamas (which is a political party, mind you) won a majority of seats in the parliamentary runoff election, was to support the Palestinian Authority in overthrowing the results of the election in an illegal coup, resulting in the civil war that left Hamas in power in Gaza. The U.S. rejection of the election results has been the norm across Bush 2, Obama, Trump 1, and Biden. Not to mention that the entire premise of an election - democracy - is at odds with the fundamentally Jewish supremacist nature of “Israel”, a state founded on ethnic “purism”, exclusion, apartheid and genocide of an indigenous population, and endless regional expansionist warfare. The U.S. policy is “we accept a complete racial divide and military occupation based on the supremacy of that race in the region, but oh yeah, we’d love if the underclass might eventually have elections or something…I mean, as long as they vote for who we want”.

    So if you didnt vote for Harris you didnt just completely doom palestinians but also your country.

    You think because, out of all the non-Trump voters, your group was in the majority, that everyone who didn’t side with you must have been wrong. But you voted for an absolute monster and psychopath, as willfully complicit in genocide as Biden (who you would have voted for also) was. You people split the vote from candidates who aren’t complicit in mass murder, and you still have the gall to accuse everyone else of being the problem. The person you voted for was so far beneath the standards of a free and decent society that some of us couldn’t even stomach it (and not even enough to swing the election, mind you).

    It’s always the refrain of people doing something horribly immoral, that anybody taking the higher road is just doing “virtue signalling” or “preaching their moral purity”. This is just rationalization. You cannot confront your own faults, the deep, horrific faults of your society, so you blame the few lone dissenters who realize that absolute fundamental change is the only path out of this. The 1% of people who voted De la Cruz or Stein did not decide the outcome of this election. 98% of you voted for an absolute monster.

    Now what is the point of a representative democracy? We pick the candidate that will do the best by us. Right? You have all completely abandoned that premise. Every election, a D and an R run, one of them wins, they do absolutely whatever they want, and as long as you think the Republicans are even 0.0001% worse, you’ll vote for the D. You never abandon that group. This completely sacrifices any power the people have, because we don’t have federal referendums, we don’t have non-FPTP elections, we don’t have recalls, we don’t have no confidence votes, we don’t have null votes, we ONLY get to vote in these elections, and our single power to control this system is completely neutered. All they have to do is find a single issue where they even SOUND better than the Republicans on, and they can be as absolutely corrupt as they want.

    Why do you not blame the ~48% Democrat voters for not gathering behind a candidate who isn’t a war criminal? Or the ~49% Trump voters? Does it not cause any self-reflection that the crime of all crimes, genocide, is no longer a red line for you in a politician? What is your long-term strategy to bring this genocidal system back under the control of the people - voting for the people who are operating it, without question, forever? Cause I don’t think that’s gonna work.