Ben Gvir needs to be locked in the Hague forever.

Against people that want to see the people of Palestine not be constantly bombed into oblivion. Trump’s US will be significantly worse for women and minorities, so most people in those groups will end up better off under Biden because at the very least the Democratic Party aren’t literally white supremacist fascists. Those that don’t vote for Biden will largely be doing so as a protest vote or through apathy, which is significant (especially when you can see the size of the uncommitted vote, which is quite significant, and I hope grows), but also self-defeating — so it makes sense for the Democrats to pander to the type of person that would vote for Nikki Haley (which unfortunately somehow has a demographic much bigger than the left) instead, since they wouldn’t necessarily be endangered as harshly by Trump and so need incentives to vote for Biden.

The ones that will suffer most under Trump are the ones threatening to get him elected. The Dems know this. If anything, that’s leverage Biden has and is using, unfortunately.

At the end of the day though we just have to see whether current strategy works out come election day, I feel. Or if/when, God willing, a peace is attained.

Yes, but it only works so much as that leverage exists. When the alternative is Trump, that leverage isn’t gonna be realistically useable come November — and there are definitely folks who don’t just say they won’t vote for Biden over this issue (which is imo good, since that’s the whole point of a democracy). I just worry that this strategy actually does extend to the general election and make even more people suffer even more… IMO, focus should be on bottom up — specifically the legislative branch, where there’s quite a few especially in the House where a primary campaign could do well and force the issue at hand.

There’s been a Gaza for decades, it’s not going to stop just because the genocidal Bibi tries to, even if it is being turned into rubble. The primary uncommited campaign is good, and I support it, but people saying that they’re gonna vote for Trump over Biden / that they’ll abstain entirely are just not going to help either present or future atrocities — wiping your hand clean doesn’t save lives.

Honestly though, at the point where only two people would need to flip for the majority to go to the Democrats, it seems crazy that no one’s tried.

I read “brutish” as “british” on first glance

I mean, if you are to judge the country by the worst amongst them, there is basically not a single country with an ounce of morality — but Ben Gvir and Smotrich etc. would never manage to get that to happen because the West Bank means more to them and Bibi knows it, and it’s also more strategically wise for them to leave Gaza alone and quietly continue settling the West Bank. Even during this war Bibi has claimed that they won’t try to settle Gaza, and again, why would they? Most Israelis don’t want it, the US doesn’t want it, not even the fairly right-wing Netanyahu wants it, and it’d cost massive political capital for very little gain.

I do agree that it is bad; but you do need both sides to negotiate to actually get peace. Israel unilaterally offered a de-escalatory move, and what ended up happening was Hamas taking over from the PA. Nothing happens in a vacuum — just like how Israel’s action there wasn’t without cause either, but designed to put the issue on the backburner. But it was still a move towards what could have been a peaceful (though likely uneasy) coexistence which Hamas made impossible

no they’re not, they specifically were fine with giving it back to Egypt cuz they didn’t care about Sinai. It’s historically never been a Jewish place, they have no reason to want it, and Egypt is somewhat an ally of theirs.

Read this as Biden being 14th worst, not the best headline :p Kinda impossible to rank them especially when either one could have another term still…

Not Sinai though

but yeah, irredentist fuckery is annoying

Not Gaza, the West Bank. Gaza hasn’t been settled since 2005, just blockaded and stuff (which is still very bad)

caveat of course being that the Israeli far right are full of cuckoos

why would Israel want to annex Gaza? they’ve entirely destroyed most of its infrastructure, and it’d cost a massive amount to rebuild, and it’s not even really in their identity in the same way that “Judea and Samaria” aka the West Bank is

Not much point in recognising the PA when it doesn’t even rule over Gaza, is there? I mean, it should happen anyway, but probably limited effect on both Israel and Hamas…

Maybe not in America with the Super Bowl but sports can do a lot more than just “a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around”. The Ivory Coast making the World Cup caused a civil war to stop; the qualifications between El Salvador and Honduras started one. Hong Kong beating China in 1985 caused riots in Beijing; while basketball has given America someone who can do diplomacy with Kim Jong-un because the Supreme Leader of North Korea likes basketball

Single incidents of murder or other crimes also don’t “impact the world in significant ways” but are most certainly news. Why is this not? It affects more people.

They’re literally both terrorists, I don’t know what to tell you. But even when killing civilians, there are rules that sometimes allow it according to proportionality rules (which I think Israel has violated). And of course the Israeli government actively wants to and are by the definitions of many committing genocide, which is way worse.

Unless you think that Hamas killing people at a music festival is somehow a valid military target, they’re terrorists. Just like how the IDF are terrorists for attacking Palestinian journalists and innocent family members.