Biden administration dramatically softens the sanctions it imposed on the seven Israelis from the Israel Defense Forces and makes it clear that they will be able to use their bank accounts.
Sanctions just 7 settlers instead of the state directly backing settlements and can’t even keep that up. Fucking pathetic.
Because Israel will blackmail the USA and expand their genocide even more.
The American folding comes in the wake of Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s threat to collapse the Palestinian economy, as revealed in Israel Hayom
And now these fascists will use that as a threat to extort the USA at every step. They must be completely cut off from US aid.
And now these fascists will use that as a threat to extort the USA at every step. They must be completely cut off from US aid.
Absolutely spot on! #NoWarButClassWar ✊️
BDS is the only way
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The world power needs to understand that it has crossed the line
So showing any backbone is crossing the line? Wow.
He’s got a “complicit in genocide” reputation to upkeep after all.
More like co-author
Settler colonialism is one of the most vile, disgusting crimes against humanity, and it is our duty to move in favor of liberation for all peoples.
If I’m reading this correctly, this decision was made because Smotrich threatened to sever all Israeli banking relations with the Palestinian Authority, which since the PA depends on Israeli banks to function, would have ruined the Palestinian government in the West Bank. I don’t like that this is how it’s going down, but definitely see the rationale, and don’t think the Biden Admin is wrong to protect the PA. There’s plenty criticism to heap on the US for their relationship with Israel, but I don’t think this is one of them. The problem here is Smotrich and the Netanyahu government.
The PA is pretty much entirely controlled by the Israeli military now. It being shut down might actually allow orgs that actually serve Palestinian interests to take power.
Regardless, this is obviously just an excuse to stop the sanctions. Israel is entirely dependent on the US and these “threats” are toothless. If Biden gave a fuck at all, he would simply threaten to cut off funding to Israel in return.
The “might” in that sentence is doing some heavy lifting. I think the collapse of the PA would lead to worsening chaos in the West Bank, especially financially, and would directly harm Palestinians.
Not at all. You can remove that first paragraph entirely and my point comes across just fine.
There wasn’t a second paragraph when I responded lol.
I still seriously disagree with you, a disruption of the Palestinian Authority would 100% be worse for the Palestinian people in the West Bank. Which “orgs” do you think are suddenly going to step in and be better?
Israel is entirely dependent on the US
Israel has a robust economy and is quite capable of conducting the war it wants all on its own.
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Not in the west bank
You got downvoted, but you are correct.
This is just a little something to keep in mind the next time some Israeli tries to argue that “it’s not an occupation.”
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I think you misunderstand, Netanyahu and his allies want extremists in charge. They have spent the last two decades trying to delegitimize the PA because they are a moderate Palestinian government, and the same two decades propping up Hamas. When extremists are in charge, Netanyahu knows he can more easily justify killing Palestinians and taking Palestinian land
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More concisely, the problem is Israel.
Just don’t blame the voters with spines when he loses the election.
Edit: To all the geniuses saying Trump is worse, you are no different than MAGA. Saying you’ll vote for Biden regardless of a fucking genocide means that he’ll get away with anything. If you morons actually cared you would have protested instead of trying to make people vote for a genocidal zionist cuck. Yet here we are.
Joe Biden isn’t catering to me and my friends
Apparently not wanting to fund a genocide with my tax dollars is the same as me bitching about gas prices. The funniest part is that these people think that they are so much better than MAGA.
As long as they didn’t vote for the fascist who intends to start a dictatorship and also supports Israel just as strongly.
Trump also has a plan to end birthright citizenship & deport Muslims starting on day one of his rule in 2025.
They already have the list thanks to the census.
Put on your own oxygen mask before worrying about helping others.
I’m voting Biden in 2024 strictly so that I can vote at all in 2028.
I’ll blame the voters that voted for a christofascist.
You already did that with Hillary, really worked out great for everyone, huh? I do not understand how anyone can consider a second Trump presidency preferable to Biden just not doing as much as they would like.
What exactly do you think Trump would be doing in any way better in this situation?
Being bitter about your choices so letting others make the choice for you is way more spineless.
Nope.
Progressives held their noses and voted for Clinton, and again for Biden, and some are finally realizing as long as they vote “blue no matter who” the people running the DNC will never give a shit about them.
And while “vote in the primary” used to be common advice, NH lost their delegates for something Dems in NH have zero control over after voting progressive over party favorite against Clinton and Biden.
And lots of us live in states that don’t have primary votes before the party names their leader.
If your mad things changed, be mad at the DNC for taking away primaries.
Not voters who decided acting like Republicans the last 30 years hasn’t helped anyone
My mad things haven’t changed in four years. It can be very frustrating indeed, but under the circumstances, I’d call that a win.
My mad things haven’t changed in four years. It can be very frustrating indeed, but under the circumstances, I’d call that a win.
And if you look at it on a longer time scale, what we’re doing isn’t working.
More damage is caused than we can fix. So we’re still moving backwards.
Like, let’s say you’re on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean, and it springs a leak.
The fastest way to start getting the water out is bailing it out with your hands. But what if the water comes in faster?
Keep using your hands because it’s removing water? Eventually the boat sinks.
Maybe you find a bucket, but you still have to continually use it or you sink, you’ll never sleep and eventually you can’t keep up.
So, you think for a second while the boat fills with water. And you shove stuff into the hole to plug the leak. You’re still not done, because you have to bail out the water. But no more is coming in, you can do it slowly if you want.
In this analogy republicans are the leak. And bailing water out with our hands is Joe Biden.
Four years ago it was Biden, 8 years ago it was Clinton.
It’s not a viable long term strategy. And there is zero reason to think 2028 will be different if we keep continuing as normal.
So again,
What’s your suggestion to make them listen to their base instead of chasing voters who have never voted D and just straight ticket vote R?
I’ve thought about, for over a decade now. Ever since Obama turned out to be far less progressive than he campaigned as.
I legitimately see no long term plan with a better chance to take the party left.
Tell the class what your plan is. How do we stop the leak?
Not the other commenter BUT, It took the right wing 7 decades to drag the country as far right as they have. We’re here now and I suspect the left won’t be able to drag it back in any less honestly.
The other commenter already answered your question. There needs to be a generational shift in the party. The way that happens is by running strong, local candidates that can take control of the conversation and push their ideas, that’s how you win in a democracy. The other option is to coup.
Look at what the right has done over decades, they’ve seized control of local and state legislatures across the country. They ran candidates in places that were easy to win and in seats nobody wanted. There are conspiracy theorists on school boards deciding what can be taught, it’s wild.
My plan is simple and I repeat it as often as I can, especially to trans and BIPOC friends. Voting is the absolute minimum you can do to participate. Network with like-minded people around you. The police will not protect our communities. Get a gun or two (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you just need to be able to stabilize someone.
Very much disagree. It seems you’re suggesting that the fallout from another Trump presidency will lead to better long term results than a second Biden presidency?
What happens to Ukraine after you stick it to the man and support Trump? Nobody is learning the lesson you want them to. You’re supporting a dictatorship through cynicism. You can be mad at more than one group. DNC could be doing more. Biden could be doing more. Normal voters acting like helping a literal traitor back into office is the better alternative could be doing better.
Like it or not (I don’t), we are stuck with the two choices. Helping the guy who literally says he wants to be a dictator is illogical in every context. If you actually care, volunteer in local elections and donate to candidates that support your views, help create a strong next generation of progressive democrat candidates.
It seems you’re suggesting that the fallout from another Trump presidency will lead to better long term results than a second Biden presidency?
I’m saying:
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as long as progressives vote “blue no matter who” party leaders won’t stop moving right.
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Primaries have continued to be less open ever since Obama beat Clinton in 08.
Obama flipped lots of red states that general.
We all saw how effective that was. But party leaders don’t want that type of candidate. So they pulled him to the right, gave him a conservate friendly Dem as VP, and as of 2024, started cancelling Dem primaries if it’s an earlier state that votes progressive.
I don’t think they’ll ever cancel my states primary tho, in fact even when Bernie refuses to drop early the DNC always says the primary is over before my state gets to vote.
The DNC doesn’t give a single fuck about me. If they were legit trying to win and help when they get in office it would be different.
But they’re just not doing enough.
So tell me.
What’s your suggestion to make them listen to their base instead of chasing voters who have never voted D and just straight ticket vote R?
What’s your suggestion to make them listen to their base instead of chasing voters who have never voted D and just straight ticket vote R?
Split ticket voting. Local elections, local primaries, down ballot votes. We need a generational shift in party leadership. Party leaders generally start as smaller/more local candidates. If you have a strong roster of “up and coming” progressives winning primaries and elections those progressives get more power and sway in the party as they win bigger offices.
I think it would send largely the same message you want without the global harm to have Biden stuck with a Republican legislature. They are still bad, but Trump is the cult leader and the actual danger.
But the party acts against them in primaries and AIPAC will put ridiculous money against them that their constituents will never be able to match, and they don’t take shady PAC money to make up for it.
And in the House, there’s so many seats in rural areas where even 20k to a PAC can but the election.
We’ve been trying that, and it’s still not working fast enough.
The water is still rising and our lifeboat is still sinking.
And supporting Trump is like lighting the rest of the ship on fire so people will start paying attention to the problem.
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What exactly do you think will change if you keep voting for the same guy regardless of anything he does?
It’s not regardless of anything he does. There is a floor. It’s Donald J Trump, and project 2025.
If he was doing, or likely to do, worse things than grifting the American people for his personal wealth, pardoning dozens of heinous criminals, stripping our rights away like reproductive healthcare, overturning the affordable care act, rigging the tax code in favor of small businesses, rolling back environmental regulations and any progress we have made towards decarbonizing our economy, backstabbing our allies and gutting the administrative state in favor of christofacists then trump would be the better choice.
I can’t imagine what could be worse, but I couldn’t imagine Trump before he took office either.
Withholding your vote for Biden is an endorcement of Trump and the Republicans. Democrats and leftists will never hear “Oh man I should be offering people some real left wing policies so they will finally turn out for me.” They will 100% of the time hear “people really like this right winger, I need to be more like him if I want to be elected.” And the Republicans will see it as a signal to move even farther to the right. The Overton window will shift until balance will be restored.
Denying this reality is a failure of imagination. Things can ALWAYS get worse. The Dems will ALWAYS be the better option. But they could be a better or worse depending on how many of the last few elections they won.
If you care for the Palestinian people, you will vote for Biden and the democrats instead of the party that are frothing at the Mouth to accelerate the genocide.
You already did that with Hillary, really worked out great for everyone, huh?
Apparently not, because you and yours still haven’t learned you can’t just cudgel votes for warhawk genociders out of people with international principles; that shit might work on western nihilists, but it doesn’t work on us. If you haven’t learned the lesson, then I guess it’s time for remedial classes. My vote’s going to Afroman until either the DNC stops being a genocide-endorsement party, or the country falls under the weight of its own hubris.
Not voting is still voting, friend. Fix the system after Biden gets reelected, rather than end up in bigger shit than we’re already wading through. Not voting has never fixed anything.
I detest them both. I’m still voting for Biden (though I did just send another email to the White House threatening not to).
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How about this: I more mean to fix the system after Trump DOESN’T get elected. That guy wants to be dictator, and we’ve got enough problems without also living under a dictatorship. What do you think will happen if you vote in Trump?
I understand the notion of exploding the system, and like I said I’m not a fan of Biden. But you should have voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary. Trump isn’t a means for positive change.
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Yep, a dictatorship would definitely be different! Enjoy!!
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If people took half of the energy they spend shaming people for not adhering to the two-party system and turned it to pressuring Biden to be a better candidate he’d have switched positions by now
But how do you pressure him into being a better candidate when the only threat you have against him, i.e. voting him out, is held hostage by the fact that if you do vote him out an even more extreme radical will get in power?
Almost like we need ranked choice voting and eliminate the electoral college so we can have more than 2 choices.
Democrats consistently support & pass RCV, while Republicans repeal & ban it. If you want RCV, you need to support Dems in the meantime.
On March 28, a District of Columbia Superior Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party to stop an initiative from qualifying. The initiative hasn’t even gathered the signatures yet, yet the Democratic Party had been hoping to block it. The judge said the lawsuit isn’t ripe, and could be filed again if the initiative qualifies and passes. The initiative also would change the law to let independent voters vote in partisan primaries, but it is not an initiative that abolishes the ability of parties to have nominees.
It wasn’t just Republicans who opposed the system. Democrats were in power in some cases and also opposed it. That’s why we got ranked-choice, it was done through a ballot initiative because neither party wanted to implement it or to pass a law that would implement it.
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Typical liberal. “I won’t face the horrors being perpetuated by the guy I’m trying to force you to vote for! You’re the bad person! 😡”
You’re honestly making the accelerationist vote look appetizing. And you should be terrified of that.
Not a liberal and I don’t live in the US. You probably don’t either.
I do. And I realize it is the true terrorist.
What is a terrorist?
A person using fear and violence to get you to believe what they believe in.
Tell me where the citizens of the many coups America had committed, asked for America to commit said coups?
Checking in from the Moscow Central Shitpost Infiltration Unit, where all 12 of us are working overtime to post on lemmy.ml and swing the election in favor of Orange Man.
you fucking moron
Ah the USA capitulating to terrorists and war criminals all in the name of money.
When the Lobby has such pull on the White House over blatant genocide, do not doubt who is in or is trying to be in real control. So much for conspiracy theories.
Vote socialism in 2024 or you’re getting the orange
Oh man, if socialism were on the ballot I’d happily vote for it. Maybe I’ll write that in when I go vote.
Is Biden the socialism?
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Don’t bring the “Jews control the world” antisemitic BS around here. Yeah, something’s up with the US government that I don’t totally understand, but you don’t have to latch onto crazy and hateful ideologies. That just makes more problems.
So AIPAC isn’t a thing to you ? or Rich American Zionist donors like the current US ambassador to japan Rahm Emanuel who was funneling money to the Israeli Propagandists Cochav Elkayam Levy who is behind the Hamas ‘Mass Rape’ Narrative Exposed As Fraud. their is no Hate in admitting that Many Zionists occupy key positions of power in many countries and parliaments like US, UK and Canada and are working to advance Israel interest.
The liberal left has become very stupid and naive by labeling everything as hate, because they are unable to face the facts, by refusing to get into merky territory, they are keeping the working class under the illusion of a fair democratic system, while in reality they have those who pull the strings keep the status quo.
There’s an entire fucking UNIVERSE of difference between the /pol/ assertion “jews control the world” and the actually-on-level “Zionist fascists are the biggest financiers of the Democrat party”; and that this is really a question for you makes me question just where it is you spend your time when you’re not here.
The religion as a whole isn’t the problem; it’s the fascist ideology that uses Judaism as a shield specifically to stoke antisemitic sentiment in the places where international Jewry calls home; specifically to drive them back to Israel to help with the settler-colonial project.
The US and Israel are both part of the same imperial project. Israel is the US’s unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East and its laboratory for surveillance and occupation and the US is Israel’s arms depot and money spigot, it’s a mutual relationship that both countries benefit from.
The US doesn’t control Israel, Israel doesn’t control the US, they’re just partners working towards a mutual goal of settler occupation.
Edit: Responded to the wrong person. So sorry!
Have you confused me with someone else?
Oops, yes, sorry! I had assumed the first commenter replied back. Suddenly everything they wrote was reasonable. Turns out it was you! My apologies.
People still going to act like somehow Israel controlling Dems is completely different than Russia controlling republicans.
If we had standards we could have politicians that dont belong to foreign genocidal fascists.
But when you say that, assholes that defend either party no matter what both accuse you of stupid shit online. Because they literally can’t fathom having standards instead of blind loyalty. They’re so far gone they can’t process that’s a valid option.
No one’s “controlling” either party of the most powerful country in the world. This is how right-wingers think instead of analyzing things materially.
Supporting the US colony in Palestine is bipartisan for obvious reasons (more tools for imperialism in the region, and keeps the middle-east less stable and unable to unite against the US). And the only reason republicans are more open to Russia right now is because they want to change focus to China, because they (correctly, imo) see China as the current biggest threat to US hegemony rather than Russia.
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“Israel” was formed as a general western settler colony in Palestine using common british colonization tactics [III] because this region is a bridge between Africa and Asia, with companies literally named “Colonization Commission”, “Jewish Colonial Trust” and the like. And has been functioning mostly as US colony since, serving its imperialist interests in the region (against Syria, Iran, Yemen, etc).
Theodor Herzl, founder of the colonial ideology he called “zionism”, was himself also just a racist colonizer by his own admission, and saw it as bringing ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarians’ as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:
“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]
Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe.
As for republicans, if you pay attention to the extreme anti-China rhetoric from Tucker Carlson, Trump, etc it’s pretty clear what they’re trying to do. Allying with China against the USSR on Kissinger’s recommendation was a large contributor to its overthrow, and it makes sense they want to do that against China now, what with both the US and Russia now being capitalist states.
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For those curious about that comment btw
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UN Report: Israel in Regular Contact with Syrian Rebels including ISIS
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In Syria, militias armed by the Pentagon fight those armed by the CIA
And now attacks on Russia and China.
Some more interesting events
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Israeli defense minister: If I had to choose between Iran and ISIS, I’d choose ISIS
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Members of ISIS and Nusra front also have been treated in Israeli hospitals.
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Former Mossad director, Efraim Halevy, defends Israeli medical assistance to Al Nusra Front fighters
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Ex-defense minister says ISIS ‘apologized’ to Israel for November clash
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Israeli think tank: Don’t destroy ISIS; it’s a “useful tool” against Iran, Hezbollah, Syria
Never said it’s “part of the US government”. But it’s obviously just become a US proxy in the region now, kinda like “israel”; no wonder the two help each other out then.
Name any colony that constantly insults their “mother country” and gets any demand they make including billions of dollars in aid every year.
You’ve got the power dynamic backwards dawg…
It’s an investment. The capitalist ruling class of the US get far more in return by keeping the middle-east subjugated to the US through “israel” than the money they spend on the colony. Biden agrees.
Did I say it was a colony? And even if I had, the reasons for those things are literally in the linked articles. We need them there.
No, someone else did…
I replied to them, and then you just posted a bunch of links in reply to my comment.
You literally didn’t say anything, so how did you expect people to guess what you meant?
I’m sure it was perfectly clear to you what you were doing, but no one else could do anything besides make assumptions
I edited it (my last reply above this), but we’re probably done here anyway.
Israel owns both the Republicans and Democrats. They probably have even more influence over the Republicans due to the evangelicals.
Genocide Joe is still a spineless bitch for not doing more, but Republicans would be worse.
Trump 2024 anyone (edit: I’m not cheering him on, just stating a fact)?
Edit: I only read the headline then came back and read the article and just… What the actual fuck?
Did Biden, the president of the most power country in the world, just listen to a threat from their protectorate? What the fuck is going on here? How do people see shit like this and think “oh yes this is fine”?
Did you read what they threatened to do?
Yes, but the idea that he threatened at all in public is ridiculous. For better or worse if this was any other country that man would be in deep shit. See: Pakistan.
Dude, Pakistan had politicians openly saying they’d ethnic cleanse the country of Pathans and Pashto people.
