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"Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered preparations for the annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January 2025."

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago

“Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has ordered preparations for the annexation of the occupied West Bank ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump taking office in January 2025.”

For the American voters to make sure it sinks in.

[-] ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 44 points 1 month ago

But Harris was responsible of this genocide!!! Turd said he would solve the war in a day!!!1!!1!!111!one!!1

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 46 points 1 month ago

And that's actually true. He'd just let Israel complete the genocide.

[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

The Harris campaign made the decision to not break from Biden on Israel, at the cost of a +6 points gain. That's the fault of the campaign's calculations to ignore those voters, take them for granted, and instead run to the right with Liz Cheney and having the most lethal Military.

I voted for Harris and told others to do the same. It's still on the campaign. Blaming voters is just sowing division when we need unity and solidarity to fight against Fascism.

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Our first matchup tested a Democrat and a Republican who “both agree with Israel’s current approach to the conflict in Gaza”. In this case, the generic candidates tied 44–44. The second matchup saw the same Republican facing a Democrat supporting “an immediate ceasefire and a halt of military aid and arms sales to Israel”. Interestingly, the Democrat led 49–43, with Independents and 2020 non-voters driving the bulk of this shift.

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In Pennsylvania, 34% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7% who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference. In Arizona, 35% said they’d be more likely, while 5% would be less likely. And in Georgia, 39% said they’d be more likely, also compared to 5% who would be less likely.

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Majorities of Democrats (67%) and Independents (55%) believe the US should either end support for Israel’s war effort or make that support conditional on a ceasefire. Only 8% of Democrats but 42% of Republicans think the US must support Israel unconditionally.

Republicans and Independents most often point to immigration as one of Biden’s top foreign policy failures. Democrats most often select the US response to the war in Gaza.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Let's be honest, I voted for Harris. But her message was essentially:

"Vote for Kamala Harris. She will enable a slow genocide. But her opponent, Donald Trump, will enable a fast genocide. She is clearly the superior choice."

Saying that Kamala would be better than Trump was objectively true. However, it was also just shit, brain-dead, zero-awareness messaging. You cannot practically run on a message of, "yes, I will enable genocide, but my opponent will enable it WORSE!"

It's just a shit, poorly thought out message. Who actually is this for? Those pro-Zionist voters won't be persuaded either way. Those who want to see the Palestinians genocided will go with Trump instead, as he'll get the job done faster. Those opposed to genocide were asked to hold their nose and vote for someone who should be on trial at the Hague, simply because she was running against someone who deserves to be on trial at the Hague even more!

It's like running a campaign saying, "yes, I have some Nazi tendencies, but my opponent is a full-on avowed Nazi. My opponent is objectively worse."

A statement can be true, while also being just complete shit in terms of campaign strategy.

"Yes, my candidate is Mussolini, but her opponent is Hitler! Clearly a vote for Mussolini is better than a vote for Hitler!"

[-] OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

"Yes, my candidate is Mussolini, but her opponent is Hitler! Clearly a vote for Mussolini is better than a vote for Hitler!"

Why would you be criticising Mussolini if you didn't secretly want Hitler to win?! I cannot possibly come up with any other explanation. You must be trying to trick us.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Harris was campaigning and bibi knew he had leverage, because the worse it got, the more ~~anti-israel~~ pro-palestine vote she'd lose. Lose-lose-lose situation for Harris, Palestine, anti-israel voters. That the left was not more strategic about this (e.g. Bernie's stance, which was strategic), I blame on great russian disinfo and agitators, not just shit intrinsic takes from the left.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yup. And she let him play her like a fiddle. And there are like, 3 anti-Israel voters in the US. Harris lost because of anti-genocide voters, not because of anti-Israeli voters. You seem to be implying that anti-genocide = anti-Israeli.

If you believe that the only way a person can be an Israeli is if they support the massacre of innocent civilians, then you are racist anti-Semitic trash that doesn't deserve to live. If that is the case, please chain yourself to a large rock, and throw the rock in the ocean.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz -5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you really didn't get the point, did you? Anti-bibi, anti-genocide, anti-whatever-israel-is-doing. Nitpicking about words and trying to own the moral high ground instead of focusing on the only path that gave you a little leverage. But again, it is not your fault, it was mostly a successful two-pronged campaign by disinformation centrals coming from the left and the right.

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

I'm not american, and I don't know anything about this topic. May I ask for ELI5, please?

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Trump is at least as far right as Netanyahu. He supports the full destruction of Palestine and Palestinians. His election has dropped all Israeli pretense in their propaganda. They can now do what they want with impunity since Trump's administration will provide all the international cover that they need and Trump's admin will happily brag about the genocide they helped to perpetrate.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 11 points 1 month ago

They're already doing what they want with impunity as evidenced by this being planned out, at this moment, while Joe Biden is president.

Yeah, he could at any time issue consequences while we can still impose them. Lets see what he does.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

I see an angry phone call coming in someone's future. Perhaps even some coarse language like "bullshit" or "bastard" might be included if Biden really means business.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I agree, but the pretense of metering and diplomacy, no matter how fleeting, is gone.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago

It means Israel is using the current conflict in Gaza to expand into another Palestinian territory, the West Bank. They are already illegally occupying it. This is their move to "legitimize" the occupation.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Do you understand who is president right now?

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

It's more the non-voters that it needed to sink in with but it's too late for that.

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