With the Israeli army advancing into Syria following Assad's fall, a group promoting settlements in Lebanon is casting its gaze eastward.
  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    134·
    2 years ago

    And to think the Democrats were advising accusing Trump of turbocharging the situation. What’s left to charge up? The IDF is conducting an entire chain of invasions at this point and openly conducting a genocide in Gaza. Were we worried Trump wouldn’t performatively wag his finger while repeating IDF propaganda?

    Edit - humourous auto correct is humourous.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    The slaughter first and then the land grab. The shitty family blood feud between Isaac and Ishmael drags on.

  • perestroika@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I keep wondering if the folks involved in the settlement process realize that their activity is an obstacle to peace.

    Israel had a chance of attempting friendly relations with a new flavour of Syria (currently being reassembled from pieces, with considerable risk of continued violence). Maybe it still has that chance…

    … but for some reason, Israeli officials made up their mind without talking to the other side - who were publicly saying that they didn’t want hostilities with Israel - and started making hostile moves anyway, like moving troops into the occupied buffer zone and speaking of approving higher settler numbers for the annexed Golan heights.

    I could undertand a few bombing runs on the Assad regime’s strategic weapons stockpiles. But it looks like the government of Israel wants to ruin its relations with the next Syrian government pre-emptively.

    My advise to Jews: detain Netanyahu and send him to the ICC, and get someone competent to run the country. (Or maybe in the other order: get someone competent first and detain Bibi soon after that.)

  • geography082@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    They did something similar when they arrived the zone last time and started Israel. They have been slaughtering Palestinians since then

  • hark@lemmy.world
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    2·
    2 years ago

    What a coincidence that they did this immediately after the rebels took over. Almost as if they were working together.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    They forgot to manufacture consent about defending themselves to do the land grab. No Hamas or Hezbollah in Syria.

    Turns out nobody cares. Israel can Lebensraum whatever it wants. Bufferzone for my buffer zone.

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1116·
    2 years ago

    I wonder how the folks who voted for Trump or abstained from voting because they support Palestine feel about Israel being entirely free to engage in expansionism now?

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldEnglish
      165·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, the Dems were and are doing a bang up job of stopping them. I voted for Harris but harping on this shit when that isn’t even why she lost is delusional. If it concerns you so much then how about you express your outrage or participate in direct action. Though, like many Democrats, I suspect it doesn’t.

    • small44@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
      92·
      2 years ago

      Trump is not yet in office and neither Biden and Harris condemned what is happening now. I’m tired of people defending Democrats by mentioning trump every time.

    • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      73·
      2 years ago

      I wonder how the folks who voted for Trump or abstained from voting because they support Palestine feel about Israel being entirely free to engage in expansionism now?

      Are you honestly trying to claim that the dems have been containing and limiting Israels advances?

      Wheres this mythical pushback by the dems on what israel is doing right now? Have some real examples of dem pushback backed by actual results? I hate trump, but lets not whitewash Bidens unconditional support of Israel using our tax money and soft power.

      Israel has bought off both parties in congress and the presidency, as evidenced by every vote re. Israel getting near unanimous pro israel outcomes from both parties, while the entire rest of the globe and the entire UN are deeply against Israels genocide of innocent Palestinians, invasion of Lebanon, and now invasion of Syria.

    • AreaSIX @lemm.eeEnglish
      33·
      2 years ago

      You do know that you still have a Democrat president in the Whitehouse right now, right? You remember Genocide Joe? He’s still president, and I sure am not impressed by what the Democrats are doing to limit Israel’s expansionism. Israel being free to engage in expansionism is with, repeat after me, the Democrats still in power.