The uncommitted votes are having an effect! All of the little worms telling me that pressuring Biden was pointless and I should just support him to stop Trump can eat my ass. This is a result of the public pressure his administration is facing. Our voices matter.
This isn’t good enough. We need an unconditional ceasefire to then negotiate on hostages, but this is another step in the right direction.
We did that.
Please keep going. The US needs to turn on the Netanyahu government. If the west has any principles it needs to show that nobody is exempt from justice. Not even a “strong ally” who’s people have suffered from historical horrors.
They need to be tried for war crimes.
I know you didn’t mean bad by it, but talking about justice like that? I know we don’t live in times of Hannibal and an eye for an eye isn’t productive or progressive at all, but Israel, and not just the current scpagoat Bibi the Genocider, has decades of oppression and genocide they have to pay for.
To even think about justice, Israel needs to:
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Go back on all the land it invaded and occupies during the current conflict.
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Give back all the land its “settlers” has stolen through gunpoint.
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Give back all the land it has taken through direct military invasion.
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Pay reparation to the next of kin (to those families it didn’t wipe out completely).
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Pay for all the public amenities and residential structures it has wiped out over and over, basically rebuilding the country, with the interest accumulated through repeated stifling of the Palestinian country.
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Demilitarized for some decades like the post WWII Germany was justly subjected to.
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Cede to a UN mandate for its defense so it will be kept in check while also being protected.
I don’t know why the Jewish people need an ethno-state as if this is the 19th century, but this would be the starters for a justice without uprooting the whole people from the place they have been living in with the land given to them by British lordship and the UN mandate, both of whom have turned a blind eye to genocide, warcrimes and invasions Israel has inflicted in the Middle-East for decades.
Going back to main topic, I don’t think Biden will do or say anything about the current landgrab and damage Israel has caused. He’ll just play to the downfall of the current scapegoat of the Zionist endeavour, after he has been a good boy for it, and shut the matter until another scapegoat and and excuse for more genocide and landgrab is prepared for the next decade.
All I’m asking for is for the air of invulnerability around so many to be pierced. I know this goes back a long way. I know Netanyahu and co are only the current perpetrators. I know it goes from the person at the top right down to the person “just following orders”. All of it continues while there’s no consequences, and there will never be consequences until nations change their stances towards todays situation.
We can’t change yesterday. We can only learn from it. Only tomorrow can be made better, and IMHO it needs leaders to understand they are not above the law. Unfortunately the idea behind Magna Carta seems to have expired.
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How do you know that? Your making an assumption by inference
The Biden campaign is openly troubled by the uncommitted vote campaign, so this seems like the obvious next step. Is there an alternative explanation? Why reverse course now? What else changed?
Just saying there is no direct evidence and folks shouldn’t pat themselves on the back. Edit calling people “little worms” when you have no proof your position is valid is a touch presumptive.
I’ve not seen a press release indicating the connection of events, so it’s an assumption.
That’s true regardless of the popularity of this fact on this board.
That said I am happy to see some sort of progress on the issue.
He’ll never admit it, but it’s a deduction based on the open evidence of the Biden campaign recognizing the uncommitted Problem and based on there not being alternative explanations (or at least, any good or consistent ones)
I don’t think we should celebrate yet, but this is encouraging and that matters. It’s encouraging to see that public pressure seemingly matters.
Mmk so still an assumption based on your view of voter’s power on the system. Everything you are hinging this on is based on your perception of the situation.
I stepped on a crack on the sidewalk yesterday, then my friend called me.
Obviously the crack caused them to think of me.
The entire concept behind representative democracy is that voters influence their representatives. What I’m getting from you is that you don’t actually believe that America is a democracy or that representatives actually represent voters.
I guess I don’t totally disagree. I just think that even if Biden might not be worried about electability, he must be worried about his regime’s legitimacy. The last thing he wants is a repeat of the BLM uprisings.
Still not hearing an alternative explaination from you btw
Pretty wild how the nation that vetoed calls for a ceasefire calls for a ceasefire, but I’ll take it.
UN released an analysis of satellite imagery showing that 35% of buildings in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed during Israel’s offensive, which has claimed almost 32,000 Palestinian lives.
I am speechless, in what world this is justifiable. Just for perspective, before the war only 30K of the Palestinians were believed to have links to Hamas. That’s less than 1.5% of the population of Gaza.
Apartheid Israel has killed more than 1% of Palestinians in Gaza (70% are women and children) in 4 months. This is equivalent to killing 3 million Americans in 4 months. The death toll is now past the Bosnian Genocide. More needs to be done than just a ceasefire; they need to be sanctioned like Russia and other pariah states are.
repeatedly vetoes every UN resolution against Israel
drafts resolution for Ceasfire on US (and Israel) terms against Gaza
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“progress” and profit
Fucking finally. Enough people got Biden scared enough to make a serious move. It’s horrifying that it took this long, with countless lives lost, for it to happen.
I hope this will meaningfully improve the situation, and not serve as a slap on Israel’s wrist. Permenent peace is a necessity, but I’ll take a ceasefire at all any day of the week.
Say what?
