From Sen. Sanders statement:

An immediate humanitarian response is vitally important, but it is equally important for Israel to have a political strategy. It cannot bomb its way to a long-term solution. Such a strategy must include, as minimum first steps: a clear promise that Palestinians displaced in the fighting will have the absolute right to safely return to their homes; a commitment to broader peace talks to advance a two-state solution in the wake of this war; an abandonment of Israeli efforts to carve up and annex the West Bank; and a commitment to work with the international community to build genuine Palestinian governing capacity.

What is happening now is butchery, not the steps to a lasting peace. Every single person and nation can walk back from the brink of madness if they realize they are wrong and start the process to peace. Peace doesn’t come at the end of a sword. It comes from an outstretched hand. Show these poor trapped people your humanity. Show them mercy in the face of crushing death and sow the seeds of a future both your children can live in.

This piece was published 4 days ago. Israel still has time to save 350,000 people dying in the rubble around them. There is always time to be human. There is always time for mercy when you were shown none.

So?
How the fuck does that stop anything? If I leave my phone at home I turn around and get my phone or I don’t. It’s not what is easier or how far I’ve driven. It’s whether it’s worth doing. In the case of saving the 330,000 civilians trapped in the rubble around the forces that have encircled them, then yes it’s worth doing. Nobody gets to act like it’s too late until there isn’t a shred of hope for those people and the hearts that beat inside them.

Nobody gets to claim the moral high ground in sacrificing the lives of the people trapped where you decided to invade or Hamas decided to defend. You cannot beat monsters by being an equally gross monster. It only leaves us a world of dead civilians filled with awful monsters. You want to beat Hamas? You have to be better than Hamas. Sanders gets that. Why don’t you?

Saving civilians is not a loss of progress. It’s the first step toward it dude.

This guy has three kids in college and no fucking bank accounts… Dude, is this guy congress Clarence Thomas? Fuck, it feels like these people are all body snatchers!

edit: a word

Last I heard they had a ballot initiative to do an independent citizens redistricting council. It’s what happened in Michigan to turn it blue and I think some of the same people and elements were behind it down there. If that’s still the case it could be more than their right to control women’s bodies on the line, which could explain how blatant and desperate this is.

Edit: I looked it up, the state dragged it’s feet so it didn’t make it on this year. 2024 hopefully!

From the article:

In a memo released Thursday, Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodriguez said her team feels “well-prepared to defeat whoever emerges from the extreme MAGA Republicans’ primary field,” but “this will be a very close general election.”
Biden won 64 percent of the Muslim vote in 2020, and Trump won 35 percent, according to exit polling by The Associated Press.

New polling this week showed Biden’s support among Arab American voters plummeting to just 17 percent, down 42 percentage points compared to 2020. The Arab American Institute, which conducted the poll, said it marks the first time in 26 years of polling Arab Americans that the majority did not claim to prefer the Democratic Party.

Between this recurring news and the fact that it’s being taken seriously it feels like team Biden is going to have to go further than an Islamophobia policy implementation. These numbers can likely lose him Michigan as it stands, and ignoring the Midwest has never worked out to a candidates (and all of our) detriment in the recent past. We need concise action to support these communities if we want to keep Michigan blue.

This is bad news for Israels current course of action. When the guy who was popular (enough that the current guy could “best friend” his coat tails into office) starts saying this stuff loud enough for everyone to hear, it’s intentional. This looks like more subtle public distancing and changing of narrative.

The former president argued that it was important to acknowledge multiple seemingly contradictory truths: Hamas’ actions were “horrific,” but “the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians” were also “unbearable.”
Obama previously spoke out on the conflict, saying in a statement that any actions by Israel that ignore the human cost of the war against Hamas “could ultimately backfire.”

Israel and it’s supporters should be sobered by this soft diplomacy. It’s very much aimed at them and the timing should make it clear that they are being isolated.

Many would say that stateless socialism is the premise of Anarchism. Stateless largely refers to organizing hierarchies horizontally over vertically, and this is due to the overarching critique that vertical hierarchies result in corruption and rank inequality. Check out Communalism and the works of Murray Bookchin if you’d like to know more. There’s also a fair amount of talk about “pure democracy/direct democracy” in these circles and personally I think that Digital Direct Democracy could be the cure for the cancer in all the worlds modern democracies, if it ever takes off somewhere.

From the article:

Israel has created a “permanent condition” for Palestinians in which “one state ruled by one group of people rules over another group of people.” They argue that it is counterproductive to continue to see Israel-Palestine through a two-state framework, given the Israeli-dominated reality that exists on the ground.

There’s an understandable impression that can come from the coverage of the October 7 attack that Israel and Palestine had been at peace, and now suddenly they’re at war. Was the Israeli occupation peaceful for Palestinians prior to October 7?

An expert who gets it. This article was wonderful. Certainly worth the read! Thank you for posting!

Thanks, been cribbing inspiration from your LJ posts. Although, I’ll say a lot of them come off as quite “emo” :D

edit: Get well soon friend!

Weak argument, your comment was much shorter than his. :P

edit: not that you need it but /s

Solidarity must be had among all the peoples of this world if we hope to overcome the spectral chains upon our souls. International solidarity for all humans.

The pizza as medicine makes it too real.

So I guess those 4000 unreasonable dead children had it coming. Good to know!

I recognize those dead, glazed over eyes! They look like mine. Oh…

proud of you

What a absolutely horrid combination of things. It’s like several peoples vomit all combined into one. Fuck fascists, world wide.

Specify the issue?

You’re so cruel. Are we sure you’re not in Hamas?

I imagine Israel will run out of a lot of things too if their funding gets shitcanned between Christofacist R. leadership wanting to dismantle the IRS and Dems who won’t pass a package without funding Ukraine… Lack of supplies might soon be in vogue! Though I imagine the supply of dead children isn’t something Israel will soon stop “providing.”
How did you like Israel blowing up that convoy of ambulances today? Haven’t seen you around but have been on pins on needles to hear how dying, injured civilians being shipped to Egypt for care deserve to be exploded. 3…2…1. Hamas!

I’m pretty sure the both sides take is being lifted directly from the US politics shit show and is probably an early fall back position to diffuse argument and lessen culpability in the aftermath of war crimes. I’m with you though, there’s a lot of crocks in relatively proximity.

Oh and on Ukraine. No? Well, maybe Alex Jones?