Don’t be fooled. Biden is fully signed up to ethnic cleansing in Gaza
Don’t be fooled. Biden is fully signed up to ethnic cleansing in Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
Don’t be fooled. Biden is fully signed up to ethnic cleansing in Gaza
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Sorry sweaty but this truth is too inconvenient for libs of lemmy.ml. lemmygrad.ml & hexbear.net would be more receptive.
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I identify strongly as a Democrat. I have no ill feelings towards the Jewish community. I hate not calling a spade a spade here. I suspect there are some big Jewish donors on the democratic side. Also, we don’t want to lose access to the Israeli tech stack on the surveillance side. So if those are the reasons we are letting Israel essentially eradicate a group of people, then say that to the American people. Let the people decide if we are morally fine with that.
This conflict is complex. But Palestinians were painted into a corner and they truly waited a long time pleading their case to the West with how Israel has been handling them. We did nothing and now we are surprised they went to extremes to fight for their rights and lives.
No one has the moral high ground here. Hamas did something horrible. The response though is highly disproportional. I can’t come up with another scenario where we would be so accepting of this massacre. Native Americans in the US are still treated poorly. If they kidnapped and killed a bunch of none Native Americans that would not justify eradicating them. Then why are we fine with it when it comes to Israel and Gaza?
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Hamas only exists because of Israel. They are only radicalized because of the IDF.
The US did the same thing to the Native Americans and supported the South African apartheid regime, so it's no surprise they support colonialism and apartheid here.
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This is a false narrative, and Norm Finkelstein just did a great interview explaining just how absurd it is to try and use both sides argument here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeO9jGxnbbs
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Ah a lib who hasn't been scratched yet. Looking forward to further opinions.
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I hope sweaty instead of sweety is the new parlance.
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I don't understand why criticizing Biden implies you support Trump.
If you're gonna tell me to vote for the arguably lesser evil, you better believe I'm gonna complain about the results anyway lol.
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I always vote for the lesser evil which is why voting D or R isn't even a consideration for me. It's hard for some people to grasp, but if you vote for someone who is pro-genocide, it doesn't really get any "more evil" so you shouldn't vote for either.
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Just finished listening to August Nimtz on Upstream podcast. He explains why voting for the lesser evil will always push you further right.
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Obama was all into war crimes in the middle east too, so I can't pretend I'm surprised.
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Who's fooled?
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The US doesn't need solid roots in the middle east, it is literally an entire ocean away, has the top 4 air forces in world(well, officially Russia is #3, but that probably is no longer the case and definitely won't be by time the Ukraine invasion ends), the 2nd best/possibly the best Navy in the world, the 2nd largest stockpile of Nukes(and likely the largest stockpile of actually functional ones), not to mention a missile defense system that probably puts even the Iron Dome to shame(after all, the I.D was primarily funded by the US).
Literally the only physical foreign threat the US needs to truly worry about is small scale terrorist-attack style operations, and all out MAD nuclear war. Literally no foreign country is touching us in a traditional war.
No, the only reason the US needs solid roots in the middle east is so it can advance it's imperialist interventionist goals. You're absolutely right, Israel is the US's ally. Where you are wrong though is believing we should support them, rather than ending our alliance with them.
Put it this way: An alliance between two countries is basically like a friendship between two people. If you found out your friend, your best friend even, was a remorseless serial killer, how would you react? Would you rightly dump them as a friend and hope they rot in prison, or would you be like "sure, I realize they killed all those innocent people, but they're my friend! I HAVE to support them no matter what! Besides, they totally killed some bad people too, so it's justified."?
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I'd just add that 'Zionism' means many different things to many different people. To some, it's advocating that all Palestinians be forcefully removed from the region in support of the creation of a kind of Greater Israel. To others, it's the mere acknowledgement that Israel is a thing that exists and that all Jews should not be forcefully removed from the region in support of the creation of a Greater Palestine.
Depending on who's using the term, it's essentially either "thing I like" or "thing I don't like", and I wouldn't read very much into it over examining actual specific policy.
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It's often used as newspeak. Just like in 1984, complex and often nuanced issues are reduced to simple words, soundbites or phrases which limit critical thinking and the ability to articulate more abstract or balanced opinions.
As you say, you're then forced to make a choice, because the whole thing's framed as a false dilemna.
Because the whole debate's so emotional and angry, any room for nuance is often dead on arrival, and gets buried in the cacaphony of the loudest and often most stupid voices.
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Amazing that this is getting downvoted. This is just the plain truth of the situation.
probably because it isn't news but an opinion piece.
How many other opinion pieces get downvoted like this? I don't think it's that it's an opinion peice. I think it's an opinion many don't want to hear.
An opinion piece in what is widely regarded as an outlet for the Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Hamas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiddleEastEye