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am_Unition  ·  283 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Palestine and the power of language

Yeah well BIden's not Zionist enough for the Christian Zionists, because that's not a threshold that exists. He still hasn't figured out that MAGA will hate him regardless of what he does, and on any issue whatsoever.

    sneaky realpolitik to end Netanyahu

If part of a long-term plan includes being on the wrong side of history in the moment that it mattered, the plan sucks. It looks like this is a personal issue for Biden, to me. Yeah, he is some degree of Zionist, for sure. And I do think that he's built the type of white house where people don't typically challenge him, but for different reasons than why Trump's underlings wouldn't buck Trump.

I should also just say that I absolutely do think Israel should exist, but I think the way it was brought into existence and the way that it operates is a disgrace. The holocaust was real, and it was maybe the most morally reprehensible thing in human history, but there were ways to better get along with the people whose land they invaded, and just about all of those ways were carefully avoided.