Trump reached deep into his profanity lexicon a week ago to warn Netanyahu not to attack, then told the world he had put Bibi in his place and troops were even turning around. Peace was at hand thanks to Trump’s strength and his fury, Axios reported.
A week later that very bombing run is carried out and Iran is promising major retaliation.
We have had a lot of weak presidents over our history but perhaps none weaker than Trump. He gets pushed around by a small nation of a few million people that we subsidize.
Apple has removed Lebanese village names in Southern Lebanon.
As Israel invades, they are already setting the state to justify occupation.
I’ve never seen something like this.
Benjamin Netanyahu invoked Amalek, which commands the absolute destruction of an entire group of people, specifically ordering the killing of “both man and woman, infant and suckling.”
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security, said, “The only thing that needs to enter Gaza is hundreds of tons of explosives from the Air Force, not an ounce of humanitarian aid.” He also said, “We cannot have women and children approaching the border. Anyone who approaches and poses a threat to security must receive a bullet.” He later said that the West Bank could be turned into Gaza.
Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s Minister of Finance, said, “Gaza will be entirely destroyed,” and that “there is no such thing as a Palestinian people.” He also said that “no one in the world will allow us to starve two million people, even though it might be justified and moral.”
Mohammad Abu Jiab, a young fisherman, went out to sea in search of food for his family. Today, Israeli forces killed him off the coast of Gaza.
In Gaza, even the search for food can become a death sentence.
Powerful piece, highly recommend reading. Democrats need people like Platner if they are going to come to terms with the true nature of our country, with what we have done to people at home and abroad, and pull together the coalition needed to heal and reshape it.
“A tiny minority of Americans (6%) ever serve in the military. Of these, only 40% of veterans have ever deployed to a combat zone. And of those deployed, only about 10% participated in actual ground combat. I am one of those, and so is Platner. His pathology: a combination of traumatic stress, substance abuse, impulsive decision-making in the past, and deep anger at the moral injury he sustained wearing the cloth of this nation, is something this country ought to consider when it sends its young men and women to war. The question before Maine is not whether Graham Platner is perfect. The question is whether the United States Senate, the state of Maine, and the country as a whole would benefit from having his voice in the room when decisions are made. The answer is yes…”
“A democracy that insists on perfection will eventually find itself represented only by people skilled at hiding their flaws.”
This IDF soldier who shot a baby dead could be a British citizen. We would have no way of knowing.
That’s why Zack is right. We need to make sure any British national complicit in war crimes is held to account.
There is no 2 state solution.
Israel is a fake country built on other ppl’s land & has murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians.
They have no right to exist.
If socialism and fascism are the same, why did the largest fascist movements destroy unions, jail communists, and protect industrialists? Because fascism doesn’t challenge capitalist power. When capitalism is in crisis, fascism steps in to defend it.