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Instead he continued on into a career that allowed him say all kinds of atrocious things in support of Israel.
Still better than Dr. Oz would have been though.
For all the people downvoting me:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-fetterman-hamas-must-go-i-would-be-last-man-standing-for-israel/ar-AA1md0Ad
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/john-fettermans-israel-remarks-spark-furious-backlash/ar-AA1iuX2Z
I mean, the things he’s saying aren’t atrocious, you just don’t like them.
That sounds pretty atrocious to me. No conditions means "even if they plan to slaughter every last Palestinian child."
This, meanwhile, is an atrocious lie. Because Israel and the IDF have been found guilty of all of those things. It is an atrocious lie, not just a lie, because it ignores all of the horrific things Israel has done since he wants to be the "last man standing on the Israeli side"
This is atrocious because it puts the responsibility of taking the lives of thousands of Palestinians out of the IDF's hands and entirely in Hamas' hands, suggesting that Israel is innocent of killing Palestinians.
And if you can't see why this is atrocious, unless you're just unaware that thousands of children have been killed in the very short timespan of this war, I don't even know how to help you.
The Senator knows that isn't happening currently nor is it going to be occurring and is speaking in that context. Quite frankly I've heard way worse actually professed by Pro-Palestinians supporters up to the point they consider even Israeli babies legitimate targets. Even when Pro-Palestinians are challenged to at least denounce Hamas they ridicule the effort which seems worse than the Senator's statement. You might just have to accept that the Senator is being aspirational about the statement given the current realities not the ones you want to exaggerate.
Ceasefires relate to the conflict in which they are negotiated. So far the Senator is correct that Israel has yet to violate one in this iteration of the Israel/Gaza-Hamas War.
There needs to be at least some(not all or large amounts of) allowances for refugees to neighboring regions. Sad fact is every country is fencing in civilians here because of irrational fears of land theft & political axe grinding. Israel returned all the land of Gaza already through disengagement. These are vulnerable people and I do agree it is an atrocity. There is an entire UN refugee program & numerous NGOs dedicated to Palestinians and the world has allowed a lot of extremism to flourish over the decades. Disappointing that no one wants to discuss the negligence from these organizations.
Quite frankly the UN has been embarrassing with the increase of Global conflicts. Food Aid is decreasing while hostile powers are strangling grain supplies yet it can barely respond. Recently Sudan & Congo is in conflict with lots of children suffering yet no one cares.
Standing by genocide is atrocious. Decent people will of course not like and support that.
[Edit] Oh? Do you disagree? Is supporting genocide A-OK in your books?
You’re framing the opposition as supporting genocide - either in bad faith or ignorance. No-one’s going to waste their time discussing this with you.
Genocide is what they're up to. People could at least be honest with themselves about what they're supporting.
It's as plain as day.
It requires an intent to destroy all Palestinians as a group. That’s the debatable part. It is not enough to just not just have a different weighting of military value vs civilian casualties - it requires systemic intent to destroy the whole or a significant part of the group.
If that isn’t required, every battle ever conducted is genocide, every war was genocide. It really dilutes the meaning of genocide.
This is what they are about.
They are telling you who they are. Believe them.
That it what he is about. If op-eds were government policy we’d all be super fucked.
It’s troubling and no doubt he’s trying to push the Overton window in Israel much like our hard right fuckwits do.
But that is not all of Israel - any more than Lauren Boebert speaks for me.
There's a hefty supply of various proof that genocide and land seizure is the end goal, not our fault you refuse to accept that.
Because a genocide is happening, and he is standing in defense of it.
If youre pretending its not a genocide, you are doing so in bad faith or ignorance. Ample evidence has been shown.
Refusing to call for a ceasefire at the least is supportive of continuing atrocities. It is atrocious to support the Israeli state at this point and has been for years.
Came here here to say this. Thanks for enduring the ostriches.