Israel/Palestine thread
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Discuss my fellow 2+2ers..
AM YISRAEL CHAI.
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no you havent
ok maybe you can find this mysterious report that proves its ok to kill Palestinians bc their leaders want them dead.
Increased death and destruction leads to increased international sympathy leads to increased funding leads to increased amounts of stolen funds. Not sure why you’re confused on this as it’s been their playbook for decades. Calling what he said “lip service” implies he was just trying to appease other people and didn’t believe or truly support it. Haniyeh was just as committed to Hamas’ violence as Sinwar or any other senior Hamas leader.
these motivations you’re assigning sound mutually exclusive to me. I think there is truth about him being corrupt but it’s hard to be extremely corrupt and a true believer at the same time.
as far as stealing aid, they were able to do that before and already had more money than most people can dream of. what exactly would be the point of trying to draw in international aid like that?
its the typical racist trope that Palestinian leaders want to sacrifice their people to make Israel look bad. its utter junk and I am surprised you have no heard of it or even repeated it.
No I understand what he’s saying in general. I just don’t see how oct 7th would cause a bull market.
these motivations you’re assigning sound mutually exclusive to me. I think there is truth about him being corrupt but it’s hard to be extremely corrupt and a true believer at the same time.
as far as stealing aid, they were able to do that before and already had more money than most people can dream of. what exactly would be the point of trying to draw in international aid like that?
No I understand what he’s saying in general. I just don’t see how oct 7th would cause a bul
Oct 7th brought Palestinian suffering back into the limelight.
International aid is a critical lifeline for Hamas.
using quadcopter drones to finish off the wounded children from bombings according a Western doctor. I guess they were human shields or something.
Unfortunately, constantly using sarcasm doesn’t change reality.
Trump nominated Mike Huckabee to be ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is an ignoramus who literally and repeatedly has said that the Palestinians don't exist.
Trump nominated Mike Huckabee to be ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is an ignoramus who literally and repeatedly has said that the Palestinians don't exist.
Pretty weird that's the worst you could come up with about Huckabee, which if iirc is the guy who claimed that you can't get pregnant when raped if you don't want to (or something along those lines).
I don't want to mistake him with someone else but it's some kind of evangelic complete nuts from the south who has outrageous quotes about abortion and other stuff to his name
Trump nominated Mike Huckabee to be ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is an ignoramus who literally and repeatedly has said that the Palestinians don't exist.
What did you guys expect? For Trump to say “free Palestine”? He literally had a part of his platform that he wants to deport supporters of Hamas.
I dont think abortion and rape in the USA are really pertinent to this thread.
however speaking of abortion, anyone else remember Israel put out tons of headlines about how they were going to need to figure out what to do with all of the pregnant hostages from rape?
What did you guys expect? For Trump to say “free Palestine”? He literally had a part of his platform that he wants to deport supporters of Hamas.
I expected Rubio -like serious people who consider Iran an enemy of the west and are willing to act accordingly against it ans all its proxies, but lolthe**** Huckabee, why reanimate that corpse, that niche of american society didnt help trump win at all, he owes nothing to them, and i didnt expect Trump to put such a nutty clown in charge of anything at all
I expected Rubio -like serious people who consider Iran an enemy of the west and are willing to act accordingly against it ans all its proxies, but lolthe**** Huckabee, why reanimate that corpse, that niche of american society didnt help trump win at all, he owes nothing to them, and i didnt expect Trump to put such a nutty clown in charge of anything at all
Maybe if you didn’t spend the last year trying to cover for dumbass republicans you would have a clearer picture of where Trump is at. He probably chose Huckabee because Huckabee shoeshines him and kisses his ass. Anyone who thinks Trump’s thought process goes further than that is delusional.
Maybe if you didn’t spend the last year trying to cover for dumbass republicans you would have a clearer picture of where Trump is at. He probably chose Huckabee because Huckabee shoeshines him and kisses his ass. Anyone who thinks Trump’s thought process goes further than that is delusional.
There are tens of thousands of people who licked trump ass and hundreds of jobs to fill, you want to troll here but even if the number one reason for trump to appoint someone was that (and in different wording IE "complete loyalty" it probably is) that still wouldn't justify the pick even within a model of trump mind.
It's absolutely reasonable for Trump to exclusively pick people who showed unfettered loyalty to him.
Then why Rubio, who didn't and kept his own agenda ongoing?
It's just a mistake to pick Huckabee here, and anyway, let's see if it goes through the Senate or if it is changed before that.
This is a long-term conflict. Having the Dems think they can be pro-Israel with impunity, which would assuredly be the case if they had won, is vastly worse for the Palestinian cause than having Huckabee over whoever Biden's ambassador is.
This is a long-term conflict. Having the Dems think they can be pro-Israel with impunity, which would assuredly be the case if they had won, is vastly worse for the Palestinian cause than having Huckabee over whoever Biden's ambassador is.
lol you realize that the pro-israel candidate winning the election is not going to make democrats less pro-israel, right?
