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submitted 10 months ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/world@lemmy.world

Rights advocates in the United States are urging President Joe Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli rights abuses after key members of Israel’s government backed the idea of pushing Palestinians out of Gaza.

Far-right Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich said this week that Israel should “encourage emigration” from the coastal enclave, home to an estimated 2.3 million Palestinians.

“If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after [the war ends] will be totally different,” Smotrich said on Sunday, calling for the “voluntary migration” of Palestinians.

A day later, Ben-Gvir, who oversees national security, made a similar appeal, saying it was “a correct, just, moral and humane solution”, Israeli media outlets reported.

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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The reason he’s starting to pretend to listen is that he’s losing in the polls

He's been polling bad this whole time...

And just illegally went around Congress to "sell" weapons to Israel in exchange for a small slice of the billions we've given them this year.

I wish what you were saying was true, because its optimistic

But it's just not what's actually happening...

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

He's been polling bad this whole time...

It's gone from bad to worse in the last couple of months, though.

I wish what you were saying was true, because its optimistic

I'd say that giving it a 10-20% likelihood of happening in spite of him almost certainly being forced to do it or lose is rather pessimistic tbh..

But it's just not what's actually happening

I'm not saying it's happening. I'm saying that the likelihood of it happening in the future has increased from nonexistent to very small, theoretically.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s gone from bad to worse in the last couple of months, though

Factually incorrect...

https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-polls/national

They've been 2-3% away from each other all year.

Even before this Israel shit, Biden doesn't have a good chance.

That doesn't mean I agree with anything else you're saying, I'm just not going to provide a source that disproves every single thing you just said, because it's not a good use of time so I'm trying to focus on just one thing.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

Even before this Israel shit, Biden doesn’t have a good chance.

The election year just started, and these numbers are going to change dramatically

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