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This is how the UN shits on Israel to cover up its own incompetence and turn a blind eye to Hamas’s reconstruction efforts.
Some facts:
1️⃣ Hamas is the government of Gaza. You can’t just pretend this isn’t happening in the context of a jihadist regime actively trying to rebuild its war machine for more Oct 7s.
2️⃣ Israel has nevertheless delivered over 91,000 tents and over 8,200 trucks with tarpaulins, blankets, winter clothing, etc into Hamas-held territory. That’s A LOT.
3️⃣ Per Israeli authorities, the UN and international organizations are still to deliver 50 PERCENT of the supplies they have asked to send in.
The requests have been APPROVED. The delays are budgetary or logistical on the UN’s side. There are still ~400 APPROVED REQUESTS they are yet to act upon.
4️⃣ It’s true that Israel is blocking the delivery of especially wide tent poles, because Hamas uses these to build its tunnels. It sucks to live under Hamas rule, but Israel is not required to let the enemy divert resources to prepare another invasion.
5️⃣ Peaceful reconstruction in Gaza is possible only when the place is disarmed, demilitarized, and deradicalized. Until then, as long as the regime that dragged Gaza into war is still in power, Gazans will continue to be wet and miserable. The Board of Peace plan is based on the supreme goal of stopping Hamas using Gaza as a launchpad for another barbaric war. Hamas must go.
Democrats won the Senate by winning voters outside our party. In four states where we flipped Republican seats, independents gave Democrats a big lead, and Republicans who crossed party lines helped turn that lead into a win.
Here’s what the exit polls show.
Kansas: Adam Hamilton won nearly two-thirds of independents and persuaded 12% of Republican voters to back him. He won by 5 points. Had those Republicans voted for the Republican nominee instead, Hamilton would have lost.
South Carolina: Annie Andrews won independents by 31 points and drew 11% of Republican voters. She won statewide by just 4.5 points. Those crossover votes were enough to turn a Republican hold into a Democratic pickup.
Iowa: Josh Turek won independents by 23 points and drew 7% of Republican voters. If those Republicans had voted for his opponent instead, the statewide margin would have swung by about 5 points, wiping out his 4-point win.
Texas: James Talarico won independents by 31 points. That advantage alone added about 9 points to his 12-point statewide margin. He also won 11% of Republican voters. Together, those two groups turned a competitive race into a decisive Democratic win.
That’s the Senate mandate our party must hear.
Centrist Democrats won tough races by giving independents and Republicans a reason to vote for them.
The DSA and the far left kicked up plenty of dust but did nothing to help our party nationally.
The candidates who flipped the Senate seats showed us how to win. Now, we should follow their lead by distancing ourselves from far left radicals and pursuing common sense policies improving the lives of all Americans.
For more than three years, much of the pro-Palestinian movement in the West has refused to say a word about Hamas’s abuses against Palestinians in Gaza: killings, shootings in the legs, broken limbs, extortionate taxes, kidnappings, and a reign of fear.
Those abuses were met with silence. Worse, anyone who dared to speak out was smeared, threatened, and intimidated. Too often, it worked. People went quiet.
Now, as rainstorms batter Gaza, displaced families are suffering without adequate tents or shelter, and with no relief in sight. Israel bears responsibility for the devastation in Gaza. But Hamas bears responsibility too, and it wants the world to look only at Israel.
Hamas is detaining ministry engineers and others trying to help displaced families, then forcing them to sign pledges that they will work only through Hamas. The goal is simple: to control who helps, how they help, and who gets the credit, tightening its grip on people’s lives even as they drown in mud and floodwater.
More than three years of devastation have passed, and Hamas has yet to acknowledge its role or apologize for what Palestinians have endured. Instead, it keeps terrorizing people, exploiting their suffering, and crushing anyone who dares to challenge its rule.
Even Palestinians in Gaza are not spared these attacks and labels. When people inside Gaza speak out about how Hamas is deepening and exploiting their suffering, they are attacked, branded traitors and collaborators, and put in danger. Those leading the attacks are the same voices who stayed silent about Hamas’s crimes. They claim to stand with Palestinians, yet they turn on the very Palestinians who live under Hamas and tell the truth about it.
@magi_jay Uh, hello. Not due to a progressive agenda. A lot of backslash to Trump and Rs. Try force a progressive agenda too far and they will be gone before you can blink.