@ggreenwald@AOC It’s a perfect display of the pretzel Americans turn into while trying to state Palestinians are humans worthy of respect and be careful at the same time to avoid being accused of antisemitism for having that opinion. Do not envy them at all.
@JY4CO_ Erosion is a longer term trend while distortion is a temporary anomaly. I expect we’ve been going through an erosion since before Covid and the disease has just created an accelerated distortion of the longer term chronic erosion.
@DultKathy@Lailafadda@iskandrah Try this. Don’t call it Palestine. Just recognize there were people there with homes, families, heritage and traditions. Do these people have rights?
@SecBlinken The objection is for the use of chemicals? Sanctions imposed for the method of assassination as opposed to intent? Lesson to authoritarian regimes: kill but not with chemicals?
@HalaGorani It starts in the madrasas.. then civic engagement.. the preachers in their places of worship need to be re-educated too.. it’s a long process but American CVE experts working for the USG around the world have a lot of experience with it. They need to be deployed among the base.
@abipolarwoman@Zythen@briantylercohen There is already an island for this purpose.. or part of an island.. it’s called Guantanamo if I remember correctly.
@Raedhalaraj@ymansur I think there’s a new Washington Consensus that totally contradicts the one we’re used to. Principles of private sector growth, fiscal conservatism, and free unfettered trade have been thrown out the window by Washington. I still believe in these as a good way to manage economies
@MarkMazzettiNYT It’s a foreign service affectation.. makes no sense.. they’re easily identifiable in the countries they serve and generally bring nothing new to the table beyond talk of the bow tie.