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It’s an L for Iran in respect to killed military commanders and civilian toll, but an ever greater L to Israel because they not only failed the goal of regime change (if anything, made it more difficult by bombing Iranian civilians) but also experienced a breakdown in their defense capabilities and got bombarded for 12 days, breaking the facade that Israel is unable to experience repercussions for their violent aggressions
No reliable way against Supersonic missiles, the systems they have against the ballistic missiles are paid for by the US (taxpayers) which only emboldens Israel’s aggressive actions in the region
They need the US to enter in order to keep this up
The military censor is in overdrive
I don’t think they realized how defenseless they are against the supersonic missiles, or how well Iran has been able to pinpoint and attack military targets with them
Destabilizing Iran has been a major part of the US vision to reshape the middle east in it’s own favor, in order to retain hegemonic control and move the theater to China
It’s also been Israel’s goal since the 1990s, and Israel is an fundamental to US foreign policy in the region
I hope to see more of these kinds of attempts to break the genocidal blockade
Maybe kimchi? That sounds pretty fire as a topping for orange chicken tacos
That’s addressed in detail in the 3rd and 4th link
No, when asked about specific policies the majority of people still support progressive policies. How the poll questions are worded are incredibly important to how people respond
Not to mention the morality side of it
Here Are 34 Polls That Show A Ceasefire & Weapons Embargo Help Kamala Win
Kamala Would Have Won With A Weapons Embargo
Democrats’ Working-Class Failures, Analysis Finds, Are ‘Why Trump Beat Harris’
2024 Post-Election Report: A retrospective and longitudinal data analysis on why Trump beat Harris
How Trump and Harris Voters See America’s Role in the World
Majority of Americans support progressive policies such as higher minimum wage, free college
Democrats should run on the popular progressive ideas, but not the unpopular ones
Here Are 7 ‘Left Wing’ Ideas (Almost) All Americans Can Get Behind
Finding common ground: 109 national policy proposals with bipartisan support
Progressive Policies Are Popular Policies
Tim Walz’s Progressive Policies Popular With Republicans in Swing States
It’s the same thing as legacy media using WordPress to host their site. There is no legitimate reason to not allow these news sites because they use substack, it’s just to repress what they’re reporting
With this ‘deal’ Israel would no doubt continue it’s genocidal campaign after 7 days once the hostages are out. And once they are, they would certainly ramp it up even more than the current death and starvation campaign is
Drop Site News and Zeteo do some of the best reporting these days
There are others, but I’d say these are the top in terms of credibility, investigative journalism, and reliability
That said, it’s still best practice to cross verify reporting
The Intercept
Democracy Now
Common Dreams
ProPublica
Mother Jones
Jacobin
Zeteo
Drop Site News
Al Jazeera
+972 Magazine
Human Rights Organizations
Edit: adding Counter Punch
Oh, so genocide is ‘self defense.’ No, fuck off with that Zionist bullshit
Zionism’s aims in Palestine, its deeply-held conviction that the Land of Israel belonged exclusively to the Jewish people as a whole, and the idea of Palestine’s “civilizational barrenness" or “emptiness” against the background of European imperialist ideologies all converged in the logical conclusion that the native population should make way for thenewcomers.
The idea that the Palestinian Arabs must find a place for themselves elsewhere was articulated early on. Indeed, the founder of the movement, Theodor Herzl, provided an early reference to transfer even before he formally outlined his theory of Zionist rebirth in his Judenstat.
An 1895 entry in his diary provides in embryonic form many of the elements that were to be demonstrated repeatedly in the Zionist quest for solutions to the “Arab problem ”-the idea of dealing with state governments over the heads of the indigenous population, Jewish acquisition of property that would be inalienable, “Hebrew Land" and “Hebrew Labor,” and the removal of the native population.
Israel justifies the settlements and military bases in the West Bank in the name of Security. However, the reality of the settlements on-the-ground has been the cause of violent resistance and a significant obstacle to peace, as it has been for decades.
This type of settlement, where the native population gets ‘Transferred’ to make room for the settlers, is a long standing practice.
The mass ethnic cleansing campaign of 1948:
Further, declassified Israeli documents show that the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip were deliberately planned before being executed in 1967:
While the peace process was exploited to continue de-facto annexation of the West Bank via Settlements
The settlements are maintained through a violent apartheid that routinely employs violence towards Palestinians and denies human rights like water access, civil rights, etc. This kind of control gives rise to violent resistance to the Apartheid occupation, jeopardizing the safety of Israeli civilians.
The apartheid regime is based on organized, systemic violence against Palestinians, which is carried out by numerous agents: the government, the military, the Civil Administration, the Supreme Court, the Israel Police, the Israel Security Agency, the Israel Prison Service, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, and others. Settlers are another item on this list, and the state incorporates their violence into its own official acts of violence. Settler violence sometimes precedes instances of official violence by Israeli authorities, and at other times is incorporated into them. Like state violence, settler violence is organized, institutionalized, well-equipped and implemented in order to achieve a defined strategic goal.
Both Hamas and Fatah have agreed to a Two-State solution based on the 1967 borders for decades. Oslo and Camp David were used by Israel to continue settlements in the West Bank and maintain an Apartheid, while preventing any actual Two-State solution
How Avi Shlaim moved from two-state solution to one-state solution
‘One state is a game changer’: A conversation with Ilan Pappe
One State Solution, Foreign Affairs
Hamas proposed a full prisoner swap as early as Oct 8th, and agreed to the US proposed UN Permanent Ceasefire Resolution. Additionally, Hamas has already agreed to no longer govern the Gaza Strip, as long as Palestinians receive liberation and a unified government can take place.
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History - Nur Masalha
The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948 - Nur Masalha
A History of Modern Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Origins and Consequences - Avi Shlaim
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories - Ilan Pappe
The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development - Sara Roy
10 Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe (summery)
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They are a legitimate resistance regardless of whether they meet your own imagined standard of what legitimate resistance is. Hamas is not being ‘used’ by Israel, for the same reasons the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising wasn’t ‘used’ by Nazi Germany. Read Franz Fanon if you want to understand the reality of anti-colonial resistance. All you’re doing is carrying water for Zionism, whether you recognize that or not.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Listen to the podcast if you want to understand why blockback happens
Frankly both Hamas and the Isreali government are complicit in the genocide
Oh so you are assigning blame for this genocide to Hamas. Insane. You’re saying Hamas’ actions justify or are responsible for Israel’s response of literal genocide. No, nothing justifies genocide. You can’t expect a civilian population subjected to the unfathomable daily violence of settler colonialist apartheid to not fight back. Fuck off with that shitty hasbara. This is as ridiculous as both-sides-ing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
You are led to believe that if one side is evil the other must by default be good
If an ethnosupremacist Apartheid state that has continued to live-stream genocide for well over a year is evil, yeah, resistance against that apartheid and genocide is good. In fact, it’s just and moral.
You already have the position that Israel’s response is expected due to the actions of Hamas. If an apartheid state’s inevitable response to resistance against that apartheid is genocide, then yes, that state deserves to be dissolved and the occupied, and especially victims of a genocide, have a right to resist and armed struggle.
In this case I only see a master and a puppet
No, again that is the Palestinian Authority (PA), which is a case of Counter Insurgency (COIN).
The october 7 attacks were exactly what and when Netanyahu wanted.
Because he a fucking genocidal Zionist who knows western counties, in particular the US, will give them unlimited material support, international support, and propaganda support for Israel’s genocide. Became Zionism is not about the security of Jewish people or even of Israeli’s. It’s about the extermination of Palestinians, Palestine, and even beyond with Greater Israel.
Hamas was groomed by Israel to shape as many Palestinians as possible into the kind of people that other nations fear and contributed with their own senseless violence to radicalize the survivors against them.
Wtf? This take is fucking ridiculous. Islamphobia in the west is not the fault of Palestinians, nor Arabs or Muslims in general. Islamphobia is deliberate to justify the unfathomable amount of violence they have subjected the population of the Middle East to. It is state policy and used to dehumanize the victims of Western Chauvinism.
What makes Palestinians the ‘kind of people that other nations fear,’ exactly? Because by any metric of violence Israel has been far worse both before and after any violent act of resistance by Palestinians. Nor have Palestinians been the one preventing a peace resolution.
‘their own senseless violence to radicalize the survivors against them.’ You mean the survivors of terrorist attacks against Israel? The party responsible for this violent occupation in the first place? Without which these terrorist attacks wouldn’t have happened in the first place? The sense is resistance. Unlike for Zionism, who’s many magnitudes more terrorism they subject the Palestinian population to, the sense is to ethnically cleanse the inferior natives.
Israel managed to paralyze the international community into inaction with telling them they are antisemites if they condemn their crimes
No. Western nations have supported Zionism, a fascist project, since it’s beginning. Zionism weaponizes antisemitism. These countries weren’t ‘paralyzed.’ They’ve supported the setter colonialism for many decades. They even continue to support the genocide by continuing the provide weapons, do business with, and refuse to sanction a state committing genocide, on top of the violent settlements and ethnic cleansing done for over 76 years. There are much more Christian Zionists than Jewish Zionists. They are not ‘paralyzed by the a (false) accusation of antisemitism.’ Their interests are ideological and financial.
I look to see if the product in on the BDS list. The No Thanks app makes it as easy as a search or barcode scan