US ambassador to Israel:US no longer pursuing goal independent Palestinian state
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No stupid it requires Israel to return the invaded territory. Stop erasing Palestinian state.
Those natives just committed a large massacre? They're still good. Did a few massacres on their own people on the way? Still good.
US actually got close to a big peace deal? Still bad. The US doing everything for oil? EVIL! (... never mind that without oil the entire region, except Israel, would be worse than Afghanistan in every way imaginable, including human rights)
Clearly one of two things will ultimately occur:
1. A right wing Israeli government will eject non-citizen Arabs from the land either by settlement, starvation, or ejection. Then Israel will annex that land. This can only occur because everyone else implicitly authorizes it. This is the most likely scenario.
2. An international military coalition will invade and impose a military occupation like NATO did to the Balkans in the 1990s. This is easier than it sounds from a military perspective because Israel is small and simple to isolate. Just like Israel isolates the occupied territories they too can be isolated just the same. It’s only challenging from a political perspective.
My (quite pessimistic) prediction for Israel is that the moment US is busy somewhere else, neighbors will attack en masse.
Some wars you lose.
Europe has always disliked Jews, they’re just more open about it now that europe is increasingly Islamified.
Does that sort of thing even work against nuclear powers? You could certainly isolate them like North Korea, but no country would be willing to invade for fear of seeing a mushroom cloud over their capital.
But there are also Jewish settlements on the West Bank land, so it's not exactly the contiguous territory that it might be. Two-state solutions usually require either removing those settlements or putting them under Palestinian control, and the current Israeli government is extremely reluctant to accept either of those outcomes.
One could imagine a future government that is more amenable to that. That would still leave a disconnected Gaza, but it might just tamp down some of the hostilities.
We live in an Attention Economy that massively benefits Attention seekers.
So it become easy to mistake attention capture with getting complicated things done.
Tell that to California. Trump and his ilk are buffoons but they aren't simply putting on a show for the 'gram.
And if Trump is doing this just as a distraction (I'm not convinced), then would he be willing to invade Greenland as a distraction too?
They will use that. They'll use what's happening in LA to justify the need for more power vested in the president.
You're right, we do need to do something about ICEis, but it is urgent we do something about the authoritarian measures in BBB.
you need to deal with both the reality and the background at the same time rather than letting them get a pass for daily actions that would have had any previous president impeached and convicted.
In fact I bet there would be as many seemingly reasonable beliefs as there would be people willing to comment on it.
The only thing for sure is that we don't know and anyone outside the administration claiming a level of certainty around it is doing nothing more than confabulating.
My best read on him is that his agenda is himself (to steal a line from Robert Parker). He's moving whichever way he needs to in order to continue to climb. I have no idea who he'd be as president.
But that's my impression. He could be on board with Project 2025 (as opposed to parroting it).
He could be in it for himself and using them, but I think he's a believer as he keeps quoting and repeating ideas from Yarvin. I dont think that trump is a believer, he is using them to execute his revenge and gain power.