LevantComments

Stuff about Israel, Judaism, and the Middle East

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@Irit_Tratt The US isn’t obligated to support Israel no matter what, especially when Israel is de facto annexing the West Bank and allowing/encouraging pogroms.

Israel’s extremism is the greatest threat to sustaining US support.

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@AmbDermer Common _civilization_?

Not under Bibi and Smotrich!!!

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@AmbDermer Most Americans see Israel as a vicious, self-righteous bully against the Palestinians and responsible for leading Trump into an unwinnable war.

It won’t create a full rebound, but part of helping Israel requires dumping Bibi.

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@DavidM_Friedman What do you expect when Israel perpetrates this evil?

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didn’t @liel tell us it was a myth that there were “very violent settlers”?

This is sick. People who care about Israel need to oppose its right-wing government.

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@ProfDBernstein Just because HaAretz's readership is non-representative doesn't mean it's wrong. HaAretz is there to try to tell Israelis that the anger against Isrl isn't only Antisemitism.

A lot of evil is being done now, and the flames are being lighted.

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@ProfDBernstein After Trump, being "qualified" to be president means nothing. What matters is the person's ideology.

I prefer Rubio and DeSantis, but I'll vote for Vance if he gets the nomination.

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I prefer Marco Rubio, but I respect JD Vance.

He's self-made and a military veteran. Hillbilly Elegy is a very thoughtful memoir and important history of (underdiscussed) Appalachian migration to the Midwest.

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@Eve_Barlow Mamdani won because of his anti-Israelism, not despite of it.

Mamdani wouldn't be mayor if it weren't for Israel's/Bibi's disproportionate destruction of Gaza. If Israel hadn't resumed the war and used food as a weapon, anti-Israelism would not have been as strong in NYC.

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@HeTows Aside from their being blatant land theft and bases for Jewish pogromists, the settlements WEAKEN Israeli security be being hard to defend.

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@ilangoldenberg Then why does @HeTows say the settlements protect Israel?

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This is insanity. A major IDF operation in the West Bank will light it on fire, causes more suffering for Palestinians and make Israelis less safe.

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@AmitSegal Get ready for Israel's support in the Republican Party to take a nosedive.

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@speechboy71 Mamdani would never have been elected if Bibi didn't pursue his brutal "total victory" war in Gaza and pursue de facto West Bank annexation.

Mamdani's campaign would have gone nowhere in 2021. Netanyahu made Israel hatred mainstream, not Mamdani.

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@yaakovkatz It's downstream of Bibi and the far-right blowing off US public opinion in pursuing "total victory" in Gaza and de facto annexation of the West Bank.

What do you expect to happen to Israel's influence when most Americans don't like it and see it as a bully?

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@HeTows The stability of an Eizenkot-led govt depends on what the Netanyahu/Likud does.

Do they accept serving as a government in which their leader isn't the PM?

So far, Bibi's demand is a "national unity" government w/ the far-right and Haredim under "Bibi's leadership."

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@HeTows The Arab parties and MKs only have leverage if Likud won’t agree to be a junior partner or just equal partner in an Einzenkot or Bennett-led coalition.

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@shadihamid How many times has a country committing genocide
done nothing to people of the same group it is supposedly exterminating who had that country's citizenship?

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@DavidS_Liberdad They don't understand the concept that a reform can be "necessary but not sufficient."

IE, some ppl will hate Israel under an Eizenkot+Bennett government, therefore, it's irrelevant to consider Israel's international position in wanting to disempower Bibi+Smotrich+Ben-Gvir.

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@DavidS_Liberdad They also believe in a fallacy "some people hate Israel no matter what, therefore everyone hates Israel no matter what. "

That fallacy leads them to believe that animus towards Israel has nothing to do w/ what Israel actually does and what its ministers say.