This is like saying that Iran is following the exact system envisioned by Mohammad because Khamenei is a scholar or whatever.

Wbat’s saddest of all is that the US is a one-party state in all the worst ways and a democracy in many of the wrong ways.

You’re basically arguing that this process had nothing to do with capitalism. Like Apple isn’t capitalist, it’s just workers working. Like what is the logic here. Those workers didn’t do it to create the iPhone… they did it because the capitalist who wanted to create the iPhone was paying them. So that his privately owned firm could compete against other similar firms in the market.

It’s a truth that’s buried very, very deep for a number of reasons, not least of which is the horrors of the Holocaust and the role that the memory of it plays in legitimating and justifying the current US-EU liberal hegemony. The other reason is the way in which religion is still a powerful but “hidden” hand in secular nations. It’s not-so-hidden in American politics, where megachurch pastors are openly proclaiming the extermination of Gazans is divine punishment. But in Europe, major state-linked churches like the Church of England have open links to Israeli religious settlement programs and make no bones of their unconditional support for Israel.

Western identity - both religious and secular - is fundamentally Judeocentric. From believing they’re the root of all evil to believing that they can do no evil, it’s a complex built into Western psychology. Jewish exceptionalism has worked out great for Jews since WWII ended is the key thing. We have gotten to the point where in some parts of the West, they’re granted the right to commit genocide and the right not to be even reproached for it (so-called "Holocaust inversion).

The strong win and the weak cry about injustice.

Wow! You’ve just changed me entire outlook on the Holocaust!

This isn’t “dissent” really. To start with, the decision was made by basically Sinwar and a few of his small circle. Haniyah and the political leadership were caught off guard and knew it was a totally inopportune time to attack. I talked to a political analyst who knows Khaled Meshal well and he told me that 1) the operation spiralled out of control because they met such little resistance 2) the militant leadership inside Gaza were myopic and led by a guy who had spent 22 years of his life in prison and didn’t have the full strategic picture.

This was the least opportune moment possible in every way I can think of, down to who is in the White House. If it was Trump it would have at least greatly damaged US Israel relations through the partisanship factor.

Biden was always had neoconservative instincts, but he’s an opportunist who can read the room (or used to be able to). Obama picked him as VP because he was overly-addicted to compromise. Now Biden’s a lame duck following the Likudnik gang around. He’s always been an admirer of Bibi, and he picked a Secretary of State who may as well be JStreet personified.

His VP is a rudderless boat about to inheret a White House built for a neoconservative presidency. She will give Israel most of what they demand and they’ll still hate her.

Her very normal Jewish American husband is being written about like a race traitor or something by Jewish News Service, the Jewish Chronicle and other racist outlets who can’t make up their mind as to whether it’s good that the First Gentleman will be Jewish or bad that he race-mixed with a non-Jew to produce non-Jewish kids.

The fear of reprisal in Israel is not from the government alone, but from a fascistic society. Recall the Arab Israeli girl who was suspended from school for showing sympathy with Gazan children, then was met with a crowd of her peers chanting “we don’t want Arabs in our school” on return.

The context for that is a genocide case at the ICJ, which is at the same stage of ajudication as the case against Myanmar, for which all sorts of sanctions have been implemented…

They started shooting children in the heart and head since 2018. Now its a weekly occurance.

The FBI is the nefarious party lol

Balochi separatists? They’re usually the ones attacking the poor Chinese workers.

I don’t even know why they try to hide it. Read the UN report about their 2018 bkrder massacre of demknstrating Gazans, they aimed at and executed children, medics, journalists in press vests and even a double amputee in a wheelchair 300 meters away from them.

Oh, trust me

No thanks, guy who thinks the average person in Hezbollah wants to inexplicably kill a random British person rather than have coffee with them.

What the hell are you even talking about? Where do you people get the idea that Hezbollah and every other Islamist entity is like ISIS? Do you know a single thing about Lebanon???

Surprising Biden, who went on TV and told the world that he helped do the genocide for Bibi and should be appreciated.

File under “It’s Okay When Israel Does It: Entry #6367821 (October 2024)”

AIPAC IS FRONT LINE AND CENTER. Leaked documents from start of the war show that a literal AIPAC lobbyist and now ambassador to Israel, Lew, kept arguing early in the war that Israel’s subsequent campaign to wipe out Gaza would be “humanitarian.”

Iran blowing up Nevatim airbase (where US shipments of bombs mostly came in) is a moral victory regardless of their reasons. Better use of their power than helping Assad treat his own citizens in a slightly-less monstrous way than what’s been done to Gaza. Reminds me a bit of when Trump struck Syrian airbases actually.

Also a show-y, escalatory move from a morally dubious power but nevertheless was appreciated by us who actually live in this region and know people slaughtered in merciless airstrikes.