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This is a thread where we can post news about the Isreal and Palestine conflict. I am aware there is another thread but I don’t like the OP being biased and it’s already full of arguments. Israel announces largest West Bank land seizure since 1993 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/22/israel-largest-west-bank-settlement-blinken-visit/

This is not an example of poor integrity, this is just politics. Bernie didn’t lack integrity when he endorsed Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, he just recognized it is his only shot at having some influence.

How did trumps first term stop you from thriving?

No but if he isn’t taking campaign contributions he may less likely to work on behalf of lobbyists. He had some legitimate populist positions. He called for US withdrawal from Iraq for example. Even if he’s a fake populist at least that can provide an avenue to put some pressure on him if his fans expect that. Keep in mind whatever major bad aspects he has will probably be present in whoever gets chosen regardless.

Why? He truly believes many of the things he says and he’s advocated for the changes long before ever running

I’m disappointed. Gaetz had issues sure, but he had some positives. He didn’t take big money campaign contributions, he was against censorship of criticism of Israel, and he was in favor of pardoning Snowden. I would prefer he influence trump then some neocon.

Stop catastrophizing

Putin couldn’t go to the BRICS meeting in South Africa.

You can try when therapy doesn’t work by Shelly Young

Officially or bootleg?

This is naive, even if they can’t directly address them this can have a major long term effect by making it harder for western countries to justify and associate with Israel. If it didn’t they wouldn’t have tried so hard to try and stop the decision. It provides legitimacy to the Palestinians claims if international legal experts stake their reputation on supporting it. It can also intimidate Israel into rethinking some behaviors to avoid more backlash.

Some key differences - Ukraine started neutral and was entering an alliance, Israel took the Palestinians country - Russia didn’t say Ukraine can’t have an army or country, just that it would remain neutral. - if Israel doesn’t like that solution it can allow the Palestinians they occupy to be equal citizens

They won’t be arrested but this does hurt their ability to travel and may increase arms embargoes from other countries. The US and Israel will probably start implementing counter measures. Israel had Mossad attempt to blackmail ICC officials and US senators were threatening to sanction their family members. These attempts will likely go in to overdrive. Whether it works or not depends on how committed the rest of the world is to the court. I don’t think it will have much of an impact inside the US or Israel as they didn’t sign onto the ICC because they don’t want to give legitimacy to investigations into their military conduct that they can’t directly control. The narrative they’re pushing is it’s all antisemitism, the Israeli public will believe it and the US public won’t but the US public doesn’t influence the government foreign policy much. In the long run this along with everything else will have major effects, Israel relies on US support but that won’t sustain as young people are much more skeptical of them, this case as well as future analysis will force further examination of Israel’s history and war conduct further moving the population away from them, at the same time inside Israel liberal Zionists are leaving whereas rightwing messianic zionists are growing due to their high birth rate, so probably what will happen is continuation of the current trend, escalating wars as Israel becomes more prone to extremism and surrounding militias continue to be founded and recruit from discontent of its actions which develop more weaponry and tactics over time to combat it, but now with declining US support until Israel will use the Samson option.

What destabilizes Europe is the US trying to bring Ukraine into NATO. They knew Russia wouldn’t tolerate a border state joining a hostile military alliance.

It’s not a genocide. The Ukraine war has gone on twice as long and Ukraine has 18x the population as Gaza, but they have less then half the number of civilian casualties.

Polls are a science but not an exact science, they give general trends. They are not perfect but more trustworthy than Alan Lichtmans system which was proven disastrously wrong and was always complete nonsense.

he died a couple years ago

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/psychologically-minded/201604/how-to-choose-a-therapist?amp

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/19/putin-new-law-nuclear-response-conventional-strike-ukraine/ Vladimir Putin signals readiness to start nuclear war