Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds

Thanks for this but it has nothing to do with the point I made. I politely pointed out this is a pretty wide generalization and it would be preferable if not used.
As far as Israeli women being in the mix of key decision makers, the opposite would in fact surprise me.
You know better than me the current Israeli cabinet political composition. These guys do not strike me as being pro women to state the obvious. I do not they would be in a Golda Meier cabinet either.

 

You asked, 'Why single out the Jews?' As I said, we don't.

We blame Jews if they continue to explain away things which are inexcusable. We also blame US foreign policy and anyone ELSE who continues to support their actions over the years if they're bad.

 

THAT WE KNOW OF.

 

It's both. Israel has long used the propaganda of being the only Democratic Nation in the middle east, repeated by Potomack. Or it this there ancestral lands, so they have a right to claim it, used by Stanger.

A key part of the support they get and the funds that they get from the US comes from keeping public opinion in the US that they are one of the good guys and there are scrappy little country surrounded by Big bad bullies who want nothing but the worst for them.

This is why I brought up tick tock in the humanizing of palestinians. This is the first time in my memory I've seen this kind of thing happen. And why I said the ground is shifting under Israeli leaders. They've never dealt with this kind of negative publicity so long and so sustained. They are desperately trying to figure out how to keep up their positive image.

You don't think Biden is trying to not lose the youth vote so he is walking the tightrope. You style yourself as smart but then deny the interconnectivity of this. US foreign policy and aid changes if and when the pressure from the public is too great. Like why do you think a US president is deathly afraid of going to war. Because Americans are tired of wars. So they have to keep the public opinion positive or else long-term we could not have a Democratic president and then we have to deal with Aid to Israel which may be continued permanently under Trump or maybe remove this part of America first.

 

University of Penn president has resigned.

“The president of the University of Pennsylvania, Elizabeth Magill, resigned on Saturday, four days after her testimony at a congressional hearing in which she seemed to evade the question of whether students who called for the genocide of Jews should be disciplined,” the New York Times reports.

Michael Tomasky made some good point here.

It should go without saying, but I’ll say it all the same, that I obviously hold no brief for Stefanik. She’s a conscienceless fascist who was once a fairly reasonable conservative but took a sip from the poisoned MAGA chalice in 2016, and her career has been one long brownshirt rally ever since.
But the awfulness of her public persona just reinforces my main point. We are at war in this country. On the one side are the values embodied by Stefanik and Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and the soulless evangelical leaders who know exactly who Trump is but have elevated him to savior status because he wants to eradicate “vermin” like you and me. On the other side are the values represented, however imperfectly, by (among other institutions) our universities, great and not so great.

And if you’re on the liberal side, and you decide to waltz into the lion’s den, you had damn well better be ready. You are charged with defending a way of thinking and living that is under ceaseless attack, and you have a responsibility to represent that way of thinking and living for the rest of us who believe in it but don’t have the opportunity to appear before Congress. These presidents let half a country down, and for that, they should be ashamed.

https://newrepublic.com/post/177409/stefanik-college-presidents-gross-incompetence

 

I think the prep was good enough because the answer is always contacts and situational like I don't understand how it could be anything but contacts and situational. It was the overall coverage and quite frankly the betrayal by a lot of liberals. However as I've said for a lot of liberals especially Jewish liberals this is such a tense and emotional moment that you can see by our own poster, yasik, common sense evades them.

 

Hanukkah candle lighting in the United Arab Emirates. pic.twitter.com/JpkxM0tBgU

— Abu Ali Express English (@AbuAliEnglishB1) December 9, 2023

 

Here's one for starters:

https://cpj.org/2023/12/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/

https://www.vox.com/23972456/journalists-killed-gaza-israel-press-freedom

Because you're not going to get Israel to admit "we explicitly targeted journalists," circumstantial evidence (ala the homes and families of numerous journalists being targeted) is probably the best you could get.

 

Why does this matter? I don’t think it does.

 

Because Israel is a small country that is vulnerable to diplomatic and political pressure.

 

You could have saved your time and just said you made it up.

I read the first link, which led me to believe reading the second would be a waste of time.

 

They’re not acting like they’re vulnerable.

 

We do provide military aid, so we can make demands.

 

Did the resolution condem Hamas? That has usually been the hold up/excuse from the USA.

 

Anyone notice the white male president of MIT is not nearly under the same pressure as the other two. Funny that.

 

I've posted several links that indicates a pattern of the IDF killing journalists and then denying responsibility. Here's the most recent case I posted about (in Lebanon, not Gaza). Again. let's see what the IDF says about it. I'm not holding my breath:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023...h-probe-into-killing-of-journalist-in-lebanon

 

Another organization corrupted by Hamas

.Red Cross @ICRC should change their name to Red Swastika!

Doron Steinbrecher is kidnapped by Hamas. She needs daily medications. Red Cross told her father that they WON'T deliver medications to her, because “they care only about Palestinian suffering” 🤯#DefundRedCross pic.twitter.com/NT0htKPT94

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) December 8, 2023

 

I am sure there is more to this and this is more why didn't they answer the question.