Israel, the United States and Hamas are close to an agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for the first sustained pause in conflict in Gaza, according to people familiar with its provisions.
Israel, the United States and Hamas are close to an agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for the first sustained pause in conflict in Gaza, according to people familiar with its provisions.
Five days isn’t enough, but maybe can be stretched out to a real ceasefire by further negotiation?
If Biden pulls off a ceasefire I’m voting for him. If he doesn’t, I won’t. Simple as.
Because what two foreign powers decide to do is totally Biden’s responsibility?
When it comes to Israel? Absolutely. That’s the 51st state, our own little monster that we’ve fed and created.
Jesus Christ. Imagine believing that.
Imagine believing Israel is somehow able to survive without a steady supply of support from the entire Western world.
If the US pulled support, pretty much every NATO country would do the same thing. They’d be alone in the world in a region surrounded by countries opposed to Zionism. Hell, just take those warships out of the Gulf and things would turn very quickly.
“every NATO country would do the same thing”
Who else is materially supporting Israel in NATO, again?
Is NATO just the fucking illuminati, at this point, as an excuse for everything you don’t like?
Do you not remember what happened in the first twenty-five years of Israel’s existence?
Do you not know how US-Israel relations were in that period?
… do you know anything about the history of this region?
Diplomatic support matters, but also, the UK has sent ships and planes to support Israel, the European Union’s executive arm announced it was suspending all aid to the Palestinian territories, Germany offers Israel military help and promises to crack down at home on support for Hamas , like are you serious?
Also, this is not the 1950s! You’re living in the past, the Israel of today is run by the soft sons of the ones who conquered Palestine. Their soldiers aren’t warriors, they’re concentration camp guards and dronies and desk jockies. There’s a reason they’ve lost tanks trying to take Gaza.
I made the comment in response to “Imagine believing Israel is somehow able to survive without a steady supply of support from the entire Western world.”
Show me the steady supply of support from NATO countries other than the US, not the immediate reaction to a civilian massacre.
“Soft sons”, “their soldiers aren’t warriors”
Jesus Christ. And tankies wonder why people call them red fash.
2008: ‘Israel, Germany develop nuclear warning system’
2020: UK and Israel sign agreement on military cooperation
I really don’t care to keep looking this stuff up for you. Just look in wikipedia for [country]-israel relations, there’s loads of examples of both military and non-military cooperation between Israel and various NATO countries. Without America, all that goes away.
And yet you’re the one supporting genocide.
When preemies die because there’s no power for their incubators, that’s our fault. We both voted for that.
I’m not voting for that again. It’s not too late for Biden to change course, and if he does I will vote for him.
But by voting blue-no-matter-who, you are making Biden worse. You are showing him he can do anything he wants and, as long as he is slightly better than Trump, you will support him. No matter how many thousands of children die screaming under the rubble, scared out of their minds and surrounded only by darkness and the smell of burning flesh and ash and rotting bodies. No matter how many families are torn into bloody chunks. No many how many mothers have to say goodbye to their little children forever.
You’ll vote for it, because it could be worse under Trump.
I’d rather kill myself.
Because trump totally would have gotten that ceasefire
don’t shame people into voting for shit, fix your bad candidate problem. bad candidates scare off swing voters in the suburbs worse than progressive candidates
So trump is a better candidate in your eyes?
Because that is who you are effectively voting for if you don’t vote Biden next year
If you don’t donate to Biden you’re effectively donating to Trump.
I will not vote for genocide. That’s my red line. If you vote for the lesser of two genocides you’re still voting for genocide.
If Biden actually manages to stop Israel from continuing its genocide he has my vote! That’s all it would take and that is not a high bar.
Trump is already talking about basically ethnically cleansing the us in the context of mass deportation of immigrants and other parts of his “platform”.
It is less “voting for the lesser of two genocides”. It is preventing the ones you can.
And by threatening to withhold my vote I’m trying to prevent further genocide in Gaza. We’ve already forced Biden this far, we can force him farther if he realizes it could cost him the election.
So, no ceasefire, no votes.
By voting blue-no-matter-who, you’re just making Biden worse.
If Biden doesn’t get the ceasefire, you won’t vote for him
But who would you vote for, then?
No other candidates, Democrat or Republican, that run again Biden will be able to get the ceasefire, either - come time to vote.
So….you won’t vote at all?
I’ll vote downticket for Democrats and write Hillary Clinton in to the Presidential spot.
Democrats in the House and Senate would rein in Trump and it’s still Her turn!!!
Clinton. You’d vote for Clinton in this theoretical scenario as to who would get your vote in negotiating a ceasefire as president during this crisis.
The Hillary Clinton who has expressly opposed a ceasefire during this very crisis.
That Clinton.
Problem?
Not against her as a candidate, but you know writing her in will just waste a vote.
There’s also no promise that if she were in the potus seat right now that she could definitively broker a ceasefire. We don’t know how any of it would work with anyone else.
Let’s give Biden a chance.
(Btw im all for voting for another deserving candidate who runs against him on the Democratic ticket)
I’m giving Biden a chance right now. He has almost an entire fucking year to pull this off.
The pressure is already adding up, you can’t say that Democrats haven’t budged on this issue. It’s working.
Keep up the pressure. No ceasefire, no votes.
don’t let people shame you into supporting evil
You should feel shame if your inaction supports the greatest evil.
I feel shame for being American and not laying down my life to oppose this demon shithole.
Good. Feel shame. Put up or shut up.
I won’t be young forever. Hell I’m not sure if I’m even still young now.
Good idea. Thanks for your support. I hope you join me.
So you vote for nothing and the worst of the two gets in anyway. The family who would’ve otherwise lived in the ‘lesser genocide’ thanks you. In what realm does that make sense?
These “red line” commenters are so blinded by their own purity tests that they can’t see they’re actually supporting the greater genocide. Every thread here on lemmy is full of them, and they all make the same case, but they refuse to acknowledge the actual reality, which is that not voting for the one person who has an actual chance to beat Trump, they’re actually supporting him. Not as much as they would if they actually voted for him, but still significantly.
If Trump wins by a narrow margin, it will be because of these red-liners who valued their own purity over the lives of others.
By not donating to Biden you are supporting Trump.
In a way, there’s an argument to be made there. If you’re not doing everything you can to help defeat evil, then you are allowing that evil some amount of support.
On the other hand, your vote is black and white. By not voting for the one person who has an actual chance to beat Trump, your actions are inarguably are supporting Trump.
Your money is black and white too. By not donating to the one person that has an actual chance to beat Trump, your actions are unarguably supporting Trump. Similarly! By not volunteering your time to the one person that has an actual chance to beat Trump…
Zero. Difference.
You could argue he’s donating his time right now trying to sway people in a public forum and getting them to think I support for his candidate of the lesser of two evils.
I’m voting downticket for Democrats so they hinder Trump.
I won’t vote for genocide. I’d rather kill myself.