Palestinian Territory - Israel continues to ignore orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including the Court’s most recent ruling. This ruling requires Israel to halt its military assault on the Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip and reopen the Rafah border crossing to facilitate the movement of people and humanitarian aid. In the 48 hours that followed the ICJ’s ruling on Friday 24 May, however, Israel conducted more than 60 air raids on Rafah.

Furthermore, dozens of artillery shells and constant gunfire were fired in areas of Rafah where the Israeli military was encroaching. Israel’s ground incursion began at dawn on 7 May and has since spread to the west and central parts of the city, mostly along the border strip. It has already impacted a significant portion of the city.

Thirteen Palestinians were killed in the 48 hours following the Court’s ruling, including six members of the Qishta family, an elderly mother and three of her children—two girls and one boy —and an adult son and his two children. The victims were killed when Israeli planes bombed their home on Saturday 25 May in Khirbet Al-Adas, north of Rafah, an area not included in the Israeli evacuation orders.

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    Fuck any politician who thinks they can support this shit and I’ll ever support them again.

    They know this isn’t what their voters want, but:

    What are you gonna do, vote Republican?

    No, they’re just not going to vote, even though trump is terrible. It’s like Biden trump as an excuse to just not give a fuck. Hillary did too.

    The last 12 years, and they’re still going with it.

    As much as moderates bitch about trump they love him, it’s the only way to get people to vote for moderates.

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      A reminder that not voting, has the same effect as splitting your vote proportionally to the eventual winner.

      So in that way you are supporting that candidate.

      Vote for someone else if you want to make a point.

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        I’ll vote for the candidate that deserves my vote.

        If that’s “none of the above” like from Brewster’s Millions, well, that would make sense considering both candidates are running for president like the last thing they want is to be president, they just can’t drop out of the election.

        If the DNC wants more votes next election, maybe they shouldn’t run an 82 year old conservative who went around Congress to fund a genocide then blamed peaceful protestors when zionists and cops attack them?

        Seems kind of common sense, the left wing part should be left wing…

        But it is what it is.

        If you don’t like it, why try to convince 100s if millions of people to vote for someone they disagree with rather than the handful of people at the DNC that decide who the candidate is, to pick a better candidate to push thru the primary next time?

        I would have said convince Biden to do anything, but we all know he’s going to do whatever the fuck he wants. He’s 82 years old, and that’s what that generation thinks a leader is. Just like trump.

        The problem is the majority of voters are half their age and we’re just not into that shit.

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            The point that was made was they’ll declare it over after the first handful of states, and if you keep voting progressive early, they’ll take your delegates away.

            A couple years ago the DNCs lawyers made another point to a judge:

            It doesn’t matter if we interfere in the primary, it’s not real and we can just ignore the results.

            Tell me again why anyone cares about the primary?

            2020 we said it could pull Biden to the left. It did till the election, January wasn’t even over before he said he couldn’t change any Dem senator’s mind so it would be a waste of time to try for anything.

            So while letting the primary run to the convention would help the party’s choice in the general, they’re not prepared to take the risk of their pick losing and having to nominate against the primary result.

            So please, let me know there’s so magical way primary votes matter.

            And what the ones of us in the 45 states that don’t vote till long after the DNC declared a victory can do?

            Hell, my ballot literally didn’t even have a “undecided” option. There was one circle next to Biden’s name and that was fucking it.

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              And why do you think non voting makes a difference in your favor? There is no progressive party. There is a conservative party and a REGRESSIVE party. You think hitting the gas pedal on reverse is going to help the situation? You’re being a clown. You deserve what you’re voting for.

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    Netanyahu wants Trump and will continue to ignore all attempts to intervene until Trump is elected, at which point Gaza will be annexed, the remaining Palestinians will be killed or “relocated”, and he will pressure Trump to bomb Iran. The ICJ, UN, Europe, and Democrats no longer have any influence on the Israeli right-wing government. This is all for naught.

    Bibi will name it Trump Alley or something else equally ridiculous, just like he did with the Golan Heights.

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        Not according to the source I linked. His split with Biden and the Democrats has been years in the making, and has reached a point of no return. He wants Trump, and he’s willing to drag Biden through the mud to get Trump. This is not according to Bibi, this is according to people who worked for Obama and Biden, as well as Democrats in Congress.

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            Sorry, the website doesn’t make it clear to me, what are these numbers indicating they’re a recipient for? Are these direct donations from Israel?

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              This is Pro-Israel Recipients. So donations from lobbies like AIPAC and other groups that bribe politicians into supporting israel.

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            Israel ≠ Netanyahu

            There’s a very big difference between what the broader Jewish community prefers and what Netanyahu’s right-wing government prefers. But, to be sure, the best way to make those one in the same would be to withdraw support.

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              Jews are not Zionists. Much of the Jewish community does not support the existence of israel whatsoever.

              The Zionists that do support israel bribe off both Democrats and Republicans. But they have hit the jackpot with Genocide Joe. There has never been an American president more willing to throw away his entire election in order to bow down for israel.

              If Zionists truly were trying to get Trump elected over Biden then there’s no reason for Biden to keep supporting this Genocide. And you would have to question Bidens sanity instead of his morals.

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                You could link to resources on Jewish opposition to Zionism.

                Until World War II, anti-Zionism was widespread among Jews for varying reasons. Orthodox Jews opposed Zionism on religious grounds, as preempting the Messiah, while many secular Jewish anti-Zionists identified more with ideals of the Enlightenment and saw Zionism as a reactionary ideology.

                The whole article has a fantastic background. Basically, Zionism was considered sinful!