@Nisey2026 you're tired about hearing about it? just imagine how tired the Palestinians are of Zionists living in their houses and murdering them if they try to come home
@LexiAIexander I think they’re so poisoned by their compulsion to take the opposite view of leftists that they can’t step back and think about anything in a normal way
Mamdani just spent several minutes detailing Netanyahu’s alleged war crimes before saying he has no authority to arrest him and leaves the matter to the federal government.
Fine. Then use every power the mayor does have.
Don’t roll out the red carpet for a wanted war criminal. Don’t use the NYPD to insulate him from public outrage. Don’t suppress the New Yorkers who take to the streets demanding accountability.
If Netanyahu is truly not welcome in New York City, that principle should be reflected in how the city treats his visit, not just in rhetoric.
🇱🇧 Why Did Joseph Aoun Agree to the Lebanon-Israel “Surrender” Framework?
Hezbollah expert Amal Saad tells Drop Site she believes Lebanon’s leadership must “actually believe… that the U.S. is invincible,” and that the U.S. and Israel will ultimately prevail despite Iran and Hezbollah’s battlefield resilience and what she describes as Iran’s unprecedented “security umbrella” for Lebanon.
“I honestly don’t know to what extent they are that delusional, to think that Iran and Hezbollah have lost, because they clearly haven’t.”
Saad, who taught officers in a joint strategic studies program with the Lebanese Armed Forces for six years, says she also struggles to reconcile former army commander Joseph Aoun’s current position with the military ethos she observed.
Officers routinely referred to Israel as “the enemy” or the “Zionist enemy,” she said. “I am really hard-pressed to imagine how a man who was in that position… is the same person now.”
Similarly, she notes that Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who served as an ICJ judge in the genocide case against Israel, is now part of a government that has authored an agreement that preemptively absolves Israel of all war crimes committed in Lebanon.
“People of the South have historically always resisted Israel, and they will continue to do so, even if it’s with very basic weapons,” Saad says, even as Lebanon’s leaders are “more than happy” for Israel to “relieve them of this burden called the resistant people of South Lebanon.”
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@jkirchick@TheAtlantic wow, you're really pulling out all the antisemitic/anti-communist tropes, calling the DSA (((Trotskyist))) and (((a parasite)))...
@SlavaMalamud Democrats are 80/20 on opposing Israel. The party’s politicians need to reflect its voters and will. Your views aren’t popular in the party and increasingly not in the country as a whole
this article is even funnier after the abysmal, unprofessional and gross conduct of Argentina in yesterday’s game - especially after the final whistle. jacobin, always at the scene!
the vaunted opposition to Netanyahu has come up with “no Palestinian state but separation.” now to take a big sip of coffee and look up the Afrikaans word for “separation”
This document is a bone-chilling signal that the new McCarthy era has already begun.
But it is all the more bone-chilling to see that the entire report was 100% written by Claude.
We are asked to prepare for a lethal LLM-powered Red Scare. What a dreadful time to be alive.