1. Israel's now 16 years under Netanyahu (unconsecutive) isn't just proof that an indefinite presence in the West Bank/Gaza won't work, but that staying in the territories provokes chaos that Israeli Prime Ministers can exploit to stay in power forever. The more Israel seeks to have the preservation of the status quo indefinitely, the more it resembles an authoritarian state for Jews as well as Arabs.
2. The purpose of Hamas's attack was to prevent the normalization of Israel's relations with Saudi Arabia. Israel deserves normalized relations with its neighbors, but normalized relations withSaudi Arabia is normalized relations a power who is, believe it or not, so much more bloody than Israel on its worst day in Gaza. So when Palestine, and even Hamas, objects to Israel having normalized relations with a power like Saudi Arabia, they have a legitimate grievance in a way Palestine's most vocal advocates would find shameful to admit.
3. The current bout of cancellation at American universities makes every side look pretty shameful. One side complains about cancel culture then freely cancels those with beliefs they find objectionable. The other side demands the heads of everyone who makes a statement they find objectionable, then denies cancel culture exists, and now find themselves in danger of getting cancelled. When it comes to Israel, those who invoke the first amendment revoke it, while those who revoke the first amendment invoke it.
4. A million progressive American Jews who've dotted and crossed every woke i and t are having an overnight realization that Jews are the one minority not included in the intersectional revolution. They believed they could Jewish ethics to help heal the world, but the world doesn't want their healing.
5. Leftists are bigots against Jews who vocally support Israel. Rightists are bigots against Jews who don't.
7. Saudi Arabia conducts a full-blooded genocide against the East Yemeites. China is probably conducting a genocide against the Uigyurs. Both countries are embedded with the American economy more deeply than Israel. Yet even socialists seem to find those economies too important to go after them with 1% the same venom.
8. Nearly every building in North Gaza has been damaged - whether this is North Gaza or the northern half I don't know, but however deep the moral conundrum, this may result in the most massive foreign aid dump in human history. And yet the chances of the benefits reaching the Gazan people are about the same as they were with all the past foreign aid infusions.
9. The same Likudniks and Republicans who decry the entire Palestinian peoplehood advocate for the same mixture of religion and wealth hoarding that would eventually remake Israel and the US into places just like Palestine.
10. Every country in the first world says they want to help Palestine, yet the moment more than a few Islamic refugees show up on their doorstep, millions in these countries start talking like the Nazis they often think Israelis are.
2. The purpose of Hamas's attack was to prevent the normalization of Israel's relations with Saudi Arabia. Israel deserves normalized relations with its neighbors, but normalized relations withSaudi Arabia is normalized relations a power who is, believe it or not, so much more bloody than Israel on its worst day in Gaza. So when Palestine, and even Hamas, objects to Israel having normalized relations with a power like Saudi Arabia, they have a legitimate grievance in a way Palestine's most vocal advocates would find shameful to admit.
3. The current bout of cancellation at American universities makes every side look pretty shameful. One side complains about cancel culture then freely cancels those with beliefs they find objectionable. The other side demands the heads of everyone who makes a statement they find objectionable, then denies cancel culture exists, and now find themselves in danger of getting cancelled. When it comes to Israel, those who invoke the first amendment revoke it, while those who revoke the first amendment invoke it.
4. A million progressive American Jews who've dotted and crossed every woke i and t are having an overnight realization that Jews are the one minority not included in the intersectional revolution. They believed they could Jewish ethics to help heal the world, but the world doesn't want their healing.
5. Leftists are bigots against Jews who vocally support Israel. Rightists are bigots against Jews who don't.
6. Palestine, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority, got at least $40 billion in foreign aid since 1994, at least $10 billion of that ended up in the hands of Hamas's top three officials: Khaled Mashal, Ismail Haniya and Mahmoud al-Zahar. Israel gets roughly $3.8 billion a year when it has a yearly GDP of $500 billion on its own. Yet it's Israel who's thought of as exploiting foreign aid.
8. Nearly every building in North Gaza has been damaged - whether this is North Gaza or the northern half I don't know, but however deep the moral conundrum, this may result in the most massive foreign aid dump in human history. And yet the chances of the benefits reaching the Gazan people are about the same as they were with all the past foreign aid infusions.
9. The same Likudniks and Republicans who decry the entire Palestinian peoplehood advocate for the same mixture of religion and wealth hoarding that would eventually remake Israel and the US into places just like Palestine.
10. Every country in the first world says they want to help Palestine, yet the moment more than a few Islamic refugees show up on their doorstep, millions in these countries start talking like the Nazis they often think Israelis are.
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