Yes. This shouldn’t be a difficult concept. Hamas doesn’t govern Palestine. It hardly governs Gaza at the moment. But regardless of de facto control, it is possible to recognise a state without also recognising the controlling power for the time being within that state. The US government recognises Yemen but doesn’t recognise the Houthis.
But we do. Agreed. But our leadership extends grace to awful xenophobic leaders of other nations. And I think it's really going to come back to bite them in the ass, as hundreds of thousands of Democrats stay home or vote third party. https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ote-for-joe-biden-any-more-and-i-am-not-alone
Then when those voters help get Trump elected, they can take comfort in knowing that Bibi having a free hand to ramp up war crimes in Gaza as well as the USA being a pariah nation with be on their conscience. Maybe they'll take time to reflect on the consequences of having a myopic, single-issue, context-free view of foreign policy. I'm not holding my breath. EDIT: I'm referring to run-of-the-mill voters, not Ahmed Moor. For what it's worth, my wife & I listened to a really good interview with him a few weeks ago. His argument against a two-state solution--he believes that Palestinians and Jews should live together in a singular secular state--is pretty convincing to me. I can understand his stance, but most progressive/young Americans who will sit out in November on this one issue don't have his moral seriousness or deep engagement with the issue.
Do you care more about stuff that happens in a far off part of the world or things like abortion and the things Biden's achieved since? Or same question as above but with the general US populace.
The last sentence in this tweet is awful. The whole reason Biden is in the position he’s in is because he has given Israel 99% of what they asked for. ******** that guy.
It's really, really hard for me to criticize anyone for being a single-issue voter when that single issue is whether or not to lend direct material support to a genocide. I agree with the statement that that's the reddest of possible lines. Asking Joe Biden to be responsive to his electorate doesn't seem to me to be a very big request. It just seems like standard electoral politics to me.
I care about genocide. I care a lot about my tax dollars being used to blow up babies and aid workers and so on. And I care a huge freaking honking shit-ton about people saying "yes, but if you don't support your tax dollars being used to blow up babies and aid workers and so on, you'll be a bad Democrat." ******** that shit, hard. Obviously YMMV.
It's not a genocide though. Far from it. I know that'll make a lot of people squeal on here like stuck pigs (Russia and the Holodomor is a genocide for instance), plenty of concern about laws of war, but again, it's not genocide. Thing is, most people don't care, are more likely to wish that there's peace. And are probably more concerned with abortion than again a far off part of the world.
Did you not see what the primary results for Michigan were? And the Arab-American demographic is big, but not big enough to have an impact. Last Republican who won that vote lost Michigan pre-9/11.
Almost as confident as you are that Israel's actions in Gaza constitute a genocide. Not "an ill-advised" or "unjust" military operation; not a disturbing lack of concern for civilian casualties; not a troubling amount of war crimes or crimes against humanity; not a disturbing tendency of some members of Netanyahu's cabinet to characterize IDF strategy as genocidal. But an actual genocide, according to the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide.
Well, by the definitions used by everyone from the OED to the UN to Yad Vashem to the US Holocaust Museum, it's a genocide. Hmm. Them? Random guy on the internet? Them? Random guy on the internet? I'm gonna go with them.
Yep, more confident than I am that there's no truth to Pizzagate. Yes. In fact, the wording of same is one of the reasons I'm so confident.
I did. Did you know that Quisp was far more popular than Quake? Or that my dining room table is brown?
A lot of people seem to think that genocide is a matter of scale; that it's the plural of "War crime" or something. I've no doubt the IDF have committed some war crimes--going into a heavily populated civilian area with no real plan for how to accomplish their stated aim almost made that inevitable. But, loathsome rhetoric of the Ben Gvir types, there's no indication that the Israeli government is carrying out a deliberate, calculated campaign of genocide. Just a very poorly executed war against a guerilla resistance movement.
So you have documentary evidence that the Israeli government is carrying out this operation with the express intent of destroying the the population? Fascinating.