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The US is complicit in the intentional starvation of gaza’s people by israel. At least 15 people have starved to death in the last 24 hours, including an infant. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-war-hunger-childre... Ragequitting UNESCO over their recognition of palestine is a small part of the project of supporting the ethnic cleansing of gaza and the west bank.
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I've been complaining about the increasing power being ceded to the Presidency, like, forever now. This isn't specifically a GOP or DEM thing, it's been happening consistently at least since FDR, and probably even beyond that. That said, the one area where the Constitution really does give the President a fairly free hand is in foreign policy.
And congress increasingly wanting to do nothing.
For all the talk about wanting to do things scientifically, there's a remarkable lack of willingness to actually experiment. If a failed experiment is fatal, then we'll never do anything, bad or good.
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Israel doesn’t have a plan to clean up the mess. What is the end goal here? Seriously. They’ve invaded and now what? Options are: 1. Regime change, which I have seen no effort to attempt to effectuate 2. Withdrawal, which seems unlikely at this point. 3. Permanent occupation, which seems like the default. It may end up falling short of full genocide but it’s definitely violently upheld apartheid at a minimum. If the…
Israel's plan is, and has always been, to settle the whole of ethnically cleansed Palestine. Their strategy in Gaza was to promote the mess (propping up Hamas, imposing life conditions calculated to fuel anger, dismissing any long-term truce offer from Hamas) in order to have the excuse to "clean it up". Now they're in the last phase of the clean up, they just have to resist the (weak) indignation of the EU and US le…
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Israel's plan is, and has always been, to settle the whole of ethnically cleansed Palestine. Their strategy in Gaza was to promote the mess (propping up Hamas, imposing life conditions calculated to fuel anger, dismissing any long-term truce offer from Hamas) in order to have the excuse to "clean it up". Now they're in the last phase of the clean up, they just have to resist the (weak) indignation of the EU and US le…
If that was always the goal, how do you explain Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza and removal of Jews living there?
In October 2004, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weissglass, explained the meaning of Sharon's statement further:
"The significance of the disengagement plan [from Gaza] is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders and Jerusalem. Effectively, this whole package called the Palestinian state, with all that it entails, has been removed indefinitely from our agenda. And all this with authority and permission. All with a presidential blessing and the ratification of both houses of Congress. That is exactly what happened. You know, the term 'peace process' is a bundle of concepts and commitments. The peace process is the establishment of a Palestinian state with all the security risks that entails. The peace process is the evacuation of settlements, it's the return of refugees, it's the partition of Jerusalem. And all that has now been frozen.... what I effectively agreed to with the Americans was that part of the settlements would not be dealt with at all, and the rest will not be dealt with until the Palestinians turn into Finns. That is the significance of what we did."
Addendum: In 2005, Israel evacuated approximately 8,000 to 9,000 Israeli settlers from Gaza. Since then, there was an increase of approximately 250,000 settlers in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem) since 2005 - or roughly 28 times more than the number evacuated from Gaza.
The US is complicit in the intentional starvation of gaza’s people by israel. At least 15 people have starved to death in the last 24 hours, including an infant. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-war-hunger-childre... Ragequitting UNESCO over their recognition of palestine is a small part of the project of supporting the ethnic cleansing of gaza and the west bank.
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From 2023, the program and budget for 2024/2025 showing priorities etc. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385118
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Really? Every time I search for independent verification I am told it’s too hard to come up with anything conclusive.
Multiple things can be true at once. It is hard/impossible to come up with an accurate death toll. The Gaza Health Ministry systemically underreports the death toll by only counting bodies that they have directly observed. Some third parties have tried to extrapolate from the reported numbers to get to the actual numbers; but that is a highly speculative endeavor under the best circumstances.
This was only true in an early phase of the conflict; they've long since been adding casualties reported by "reliable media sources" as well as a Google form.
The US is complicit in the intentional starvation of gaza’s people by israel. At least 15 people have starved to death in the last 24 hours, including an infant. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-war-hunger-childre... Ragequitting UNESCO over their recognition of palestine is a small part of the project of supporting the ethnic cleansing of gaza and the west bank.
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What is it with people and their blind faith in this kind of dogma? If you think something is "cruft", then name it.
I think pretty much everyone acknowledges the cruft. They are always, for example, paying lip service to ending waste and corruption. But for all of their speechifying, nothing of note has ever been done in my lifetime[1]. The fact is that it's damned near impossible to build anything in America today, whether that's physical building or organizations. There is just too much vested interest, regulation, and unwilling…
He actually reduced spending, improved efficiency and in general streamlined the system. But weirdly, no republican (or most other people, really) ever mentions this actually effective approach, possibly because it would completely undermine the myth of republican "fiscal conservatism"
But this part here I think gets to my overall point: > They are always, for example, paying lip service to ending waste and corruption
A pattern I've noticed over and over in my life at this point is the vague promises to Combat Evil are almost always used by frankly bad people who don't deserve the power they're asking for.
Combatting evil is of course a good thing, that's inherent in the definition, but someone who is actually capable of doing so is also capable of telling you how they're going to do it.
Compare e.g. clinton's campaign platform with dozens of specific ideas and plans in a document to trump's random blathering.
> The fact is that it's damned near impossible to build anything in America today, whether that's physical building or organizations.
This meme is incredibly frustrating but I've never been able to really articulate why. I think it's because the extreme, absolutist nature of the idea promotes equally extreme "solutions" which range from impractical to basically evil.
There's a new road being built a mile from my house as I type this. Is it being done particularly quickly? I have no idea, I don't know what constraints they're laboring under. Could it be faster? Almost certainly, but that's not going to be accomplished by some kind of extreme overthrow of the existing system.
SpaceX managed to build and launch literally rockets into space, and that's overcoming the handicap of elon musk! What exactly is impossible about building things in america?