I'm simply pointing out where the moderator, who believes Israel could exist without US or another major power's support, is in disagreement with any serious international policy expert within or outside of Israel. Calling Israel a 51st US state isn't a big deal in Israel, they know.
Sovereign in name only. Its military and economy are dependent upon the US. This really isn't controversial.
Are you saying Israel is an impolite society? I'm not disagreeing, just want to make that clear.
Saying "Israel is like the 51st US state" is a bannable offense for "misinformation" on Lemmy.world
@jordanlund@lemmy.world is banning people on lemmy.world's largest communities for saying that Israel is like the 51st US state. He's declaring that this is "misinformation"
That Israel exists as a de-facto US state is a fairly non-controversial statement in Israel. But on lemmy.world's largest communities, where mods are working to distance certain US politicians from the war, it's now misinformation.
Have you called Harris a real fucking idiot for carrying out a genocide?
Perhaps you should try that, it would be easier than shaming hundreds of thousands of voters with a conscience to accept genocide.
Maybe you should be convincing one of the candidates to stop the genocide, rather htan convincing voters to accept it.
Seems to me like you should save this outrage for the candidates carrying out the genocide.
Israel is basically the 51st US state. It's a colony, as we already established in another thread jordanlund. This is a fully US-backed and approved genocide.
I don't think it's right to vote for someone committing genocide. And I don't think anyone with a soul would try to change my mind.
The genocide in Palestine is being carried out and celebrated by Democrats, not the authors of this piece.
Seems like you're mad at the wrong people
The Biden administration’s action, and inaction, in Gaza—and her support for those policies—should have been enough to disqualify her.
oh her campaign is so smart and making all the right decisions, she's going to win for sure
Trump can't create more tanks and bombs out of thin air.
Former GOP presidents Bush and Reagan kept Israel from carrying out a genocide, so there's a precedent for trying the other side of the aisle.
Not enough killed for your taste? The 50k is a massive undercount.
The econ professor is suggesting cutting off aid to encourage settlers to back off, and giving the money to Palestinian refugees. It's a bit tongue in cheek.
You're not going to find a serious person who thinks Israel can survive without a world power behind it.
I don't know what to say. I'm giving you academic consensus from within Israel, and you respond with Netanyahu
What are you talking about? You can't turn money into tanks, someone with vast natural resources and industry has to sell them to you and that requires a relationship. The main purchaser of Israeli's tech is the US, which is done to help prop up our colony's eocnomy.
Please cite an academic or foreign policy expert that says israel survives alone.
How many Arabs have you talked to about your theory that they're stupid? Democrats are literally exterminating them.
Because it's from one of the bravest reporters on earth.
That's right, they're carrying out the genocide with full US support.
The poll is the latest warning sign to Democrats that the war in Gaza is costing support among a key voting bloc.
The West has tried to portray Hamas’s leader as an ‘obstacle’ to peace, hoping to obscure reality.
Detroit Muslim leader ejected from Kamala Harris rally, deepening rift between Democrats and Arab Americans
> Ahmed Ghanim, a Democrat, says he accepted an invitation to the event and was seated in the Royal Oak Music Theatre when a campaign organizer ordered him to leave.
> “She took me to the door, and she closed it, and I found two police officers waiting there, and she said, ‘You have to leave right now,’” Ghanim tells Metro Times. “I asked why she was kicking me out. She wouldn’t answer. I was very calmly asking why I was being kicked out.”
> He continues, “I was just wearing a suit and a white shirt. I said, ‘OK,’ and I left. The police officer said, ‘You either leave now or I’ll put you in the back of my car.’”
The most important election ever
"Most every campaign cycle, it seems, presidential candidates and political pundits claim this election is the most important one ever. It’s become something of a cliché in American politics. This time, however, they just might be correct." - from 2012
Biden envoy told aid groups Israel too close an ally for US to suspend arms
A humanitarian aid official who attended the meeting said Grande noted that Israel is one in a “tight circle of very few allies” that the U.S. will not oppose, nor will it “hold anything back that they want.”
This morning, peacekeepers at a position near Kafer Kela observed an IDF Merkava tank firing at their watchtower. Two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged. Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire on a UNIFIL position. We remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations ...
This morning, peacekeepers at a position near Kafer Kela observed an IDF Merkava tank firing at their watchtower. Two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged.
Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire on a UNIFIL position.
We remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property and to respect the inviolability of UN premises at all times.
Videos from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital show rescuers scrambling to save people as they struggle to contain a major fire.
> “What happened was that we woke up to smoke, flames, fire and burning pieces falling on the tents from every direction. The explosions terrified us in our tents and outside where we live behind Al-Aqsa Hospital,” Om Ahmad Radi, a survivor at the scene, told Al Jazeera.
> “The fire trucks couldn’t get here. There were so many burned and charred bodies all over the place. The amount of fire and explosions was enormous. We witnessed one of the most horrible and brutal nights.”
Hamas representative in Lebanon says Israel has prevented entry of food supplies into Jabalia camp for the last 10 days.
> Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s representative in Lebanon, told Al Jazeera that Israel has “prevented the entry of food supplies to the north for 10 days”, describing what is happening in Jabalia as “a crime against humanity”.
> Intentionally starving civilians by “depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including willfully impeding relief supplies” is a war crime, according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
> Meanwhile, six Palestinians, most of them children, were injured when the Israeli military bombed a home in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, Wafa said.
The attack on UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura comes a day after two Indonesian peacekeepers were injured.
The United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon confirms that its headquarters in Naqoura was hit by explosions for the second time in 48 hours, a day after Israeli forces struck the same position.
Two peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were injured after two explosions occurred close to an observation tower, the UN mission said in a statement on Friday.
There was a time US presidents condemned and tried to reign in Israeli terror.
>Israel is the only US ally that has been exercising such oppression and terror for a lifetime. For many years, consecutive American administrations, both Democratic and Republican, condemned Israel’s recurring practice of terror. Today, however, the Biden-Harris administration has been supporting these practices to the extreme.
Israeli Apartheid
Why does American media have such a hard time talking about Israel being an apartheid state, when it's an established fact?
Do you have any critiques of Pixel 9 Gemini's privacy?
Posted by Dave Kleidermacher, VP Engineering, Android Security and Privacy, and Giles Hogben, Senior Director, Privacy Engineering, Android ...
I'm considering stock pixel 9, but I was wondering if anyone had specific critiques of Gemini's privacy.
I use LLM bots frequently, but am a bit hesitant to let one take over my phone.
IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7
Haaretz confirming reports and photos around the use of the Hannibal Directive on October 7th.
tl;fp
"I Ain't Reading All That; Free Palestine"
> The meme enrages Israel supporters because Israel apologia depends on mountains of verbiage to spin obvious atrocities as reasonable and appropriate. At some point the kids noticed this was happening, and started dismissing all the narratives.
> ...Without mountains of narrative, all you’ve got is a nonstop deluge of raw video footage depicting the blatant genocidal criminality of Israel. No narrative overlay is required atop a video of a baby beheaded by Israeli military explosives. It stands on its own. You’d only need narrative to explain why the footage of the headless baby doesn’t say bad things about the side that’s dropping the bombs.
> ..Manipulators understand that they can use narrative to promote material agendas if they can get people to believe those narratives, and it enrages them when people handwave away the narrative and stick solely with the raw data of material reality. If you’ve based your life around trading empty narrative fluff for real material resources and gains, having your narratives dismissed can feel like holding a huge pile of currency that suddenly got devalued to zero. Of course the manipulators would be upset about this.
Upvote and downvote totals
How can I see totals per up and down vote in sync? Right now it combines them.