It’s very clear from the puff piece interview Harris gave with Walz on CNN that America will continue to enable Israel’s illegal ethnic cleaning war crime if she is elected President.
It is obvious now that Netanyahu needs to aggressively keep expanding the conflict and I believe he wants to totally cleanse Gaza and has now started a new front of attack in the Occupied West Bank.
The fact that Israeli’s are prepared to protect their own soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinians as part of psychological torture is as close to evil as I think you can get.
I think Democrat acquiescence to the Israeli lobby could cost them the election.
The righteous fury of many activists at the Democratic enabling of Israel’s war crime will see votes bleed to 3rd party candidates Jill Stein and Cornel West in critical battleground races and could well cost Harris a narrow loss.
The irony of that is Trump will be far worse.
Remember it was Trump who started this entire round of violence.
He made Jerusalem the capital because evangelical Christians believe that ion they fund and return Israel to its original borders that will trigger Armageddon.
I’m not joking.
To appease these evangelical nutters, Trump made Jerusalem the capital and that in turn sparked a new uprising by Palestinians which in turn saw Zionist extremists elected to Parliament who then in turn started trying to over turn the Judiciary rulings against their illegal settlements.
This in turn triggered Hamas for the October 7th attacks.
I fear there is no return now and that full blown war is inevitable.
I don’t even know how to say this – Israeli TV celebrates soldier accused of rape???
The shocking CCTV footage of an Israeli torture prison where Palestinian children were forced face down on the ground while a heavily armed and shield protected gang of Israeli troops dragged one of the Palestinian children to the corner of the yard and raped him.
They did it to psychologically torture the other children.
One of the soldiers who did that was on Israeli TV again being defended.
I just don’t know how that isn’t evil.
We have all seen the true nature of Israel in this obscene war, I don’t think we can ever not unsee it.
A terrible reckoning is building from this evil.
You’re right in that Trump started this current conflict but not my the mechanism you suggested.
If you recall it was Trump who brokered the ground breaking Abraham Accord which opened up relations between Israel and a list of Sunni states. Leading up to this current conflict there was word that Saudi Arabia was already in negotiations to join up. The effect of this would be to unite both Israel and most of the Muslin world against Iran. A very difficult situation for Iran, so they had their surrogates attack Israel in a desperate attempt to stir up sentiment in the Arab streets. It hasn’t worked and if Trump wins in November progress will continue.
You include a wider lens that is absolutely legitimate and correct.
The Abraham Accord isolated the Palestinians so that no one cared about what happened to them, once Hamas realised they had been left out in the cold, they decided to force the issue to gain their freedom from occupation and blockade.
The Abraham Accords were too clever for their own good, by ignoring Palestinian aspiration, by legitimising their occupation, they had no where left to go.
Fair enough but when you say “Palestinian People” you’re talking about a people that are ruled by thugs in the pay of Iran and who have been subjected to generations of intensive propaganda in order to radicalise them. Meanwhile in Israel proper there are over a million Arabs who are citizens, vote and are perfectly happy living in a Jewish Democracy, because they know what the alternative looks like.
Nobody in the Muslim world wants Palestinians and they’ve been expelled from everywhere they lived. Sadly they are beyond redemption.
The USA nearly always give Presidents 2 terms each its just a historical cycle.
So Hillary lost to Trump because it was the Republicans “turn” to have their President.
Also Hillary was old and did not look good in photos and American media do not ltolerate old women.
Kamala is 59, ten years younger than when Hillary ran for President and is “acceptable ” .
Men on the other hand can be a hundred years old (Trump and Biden” ) walking/shuffling corpses
and ugly as F### and still win office.
Same in NZ Winston Peters is 80 and looks 95 in real life.
When was the last 80 year old woman MP?
They betray everyone because its a political system that only serves various moneyed interests. Once upon a time they did offer crumbs to the voters, but now, now its just touchy-feely, b/s words that they serve up to the people. And this is all ably backed up by their equally fraudulent mainstream media. As such, they are a problem for the entire world and not just Palestinians and fellow Americans. The US is too powerful to ignore, but our Govt and our media doesn’t have to accommodate their interests as devoutly as they do.
America’s biggest structural problem is that it isn’t run by Americans in the interests of Americans. This is why when someone like Trump comes along in 2016 with the slogan “America First” those in the corridors of power start to get nervous. But Trump in 2024 is getting, for instance, $100 million from Jewish billionaire Miriam Adelson, which is one of the reasons he isn’t putting America first anymore. Israel will probably get the West Bank and Gaza, and maybe a war with Israel’s competitor Iran, but American’s wont get shit. I’d imagine a Harris presidency will see much the same trajectory.
You can look at the very obvious and open influence in US politics of Jewish political organisations like the AIPAC, the AJC, the ADL; you can visit opensecrets.com and see who the largest donors to both parties are now and have been in past election cycles; and you can look at how pro-Zionist Jewish US billionaires use all of their financial, media and political clout to get US college professors fired when they are insufficiently beholden to Israeli’s interests and allow pro-Palestinian sentiments to get air (i.e. “antisemitic”); but probably the single biggest item of evidence that the Jewish/Israeli Lobby runs US politics is the otherwise inexplicable and bizarre bipartisan commitment to do whatever Israel (“America’s greatest ally” apparently) wants, including giving them billions of dollars in “aid” (about 300 billion USD since 1948) and fighting their wars for them, despite their being no genuine US interest in fighting wars in the Middle East.
While this post is narrowly focused on the USA support for Israel across party lines, it fails to even bring up the important question. In the face of Israeli occupation of Gaza, and imminent total occupation of the West Bank, what is the future for Palestinians? Who will speak up for them, when it’s clear the UN has failed, the ICJ might bring action against individuals, but the State of Israel remains aloof?
What happens in two/five/ten years time when Israel declares new borders and states the Palestinians are an “internal security problem” for them to solve, and will brook no outside interference?
This looks increasingly the most likely outcome. Will the scattered and disparate Palestinian groups put aside their differences and work together? I doubt it. They can’t do that now when they have some land and legitimacy, they certainly won’t when they have neither, as is likely in a few years time.
Short of outside intervention from Syria, Iran or the Saudis, I can’t see the scenario I’ve outlined being stopped. If any of those countries tries intervention, that could start WWIII. That doomsday scenario is just what the fundamentalists want. A nuclear holocaust with two thirds of the human species wiped out. Well that would solve the climate change problem.
Or maybe I’m being too cynical.
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