I don’t always agree with you but yeah Kamala would’ve been the lesser evil people somehow forgot we got to this point because of trump he gave the go ahead for the Israelis to annex golan Jerusalem embassy and told the Palestinians you can have this on the West Bank no state no connecting each part of land to anything he was endorsing “peaceful” migration several years ago.
Simple thing is this don’t trust a rapist and serial fraudster he will tell you a hundred different things but if it profits him or he gains some kind of power he will sell anyone out.
People be stupid
In the UK, no one said labour was that much better then the conservatives BUT it was different enough, had major MPs with Muslim constituencies and a higher Muslim membership, where we could demand justice and change
You had a better chance to slowly affect change over time
There is ALWAYS a lesser evil. ALWAYS! And one should work with that's available in your favor, however small that maybe right now. Work to increase that capacity. What other alternatives??
And I absolutely reject that the Democratic Party as a whole is anti Palestinian; that label may apply to the Republican Party. It was Biden who is personally a deeply Zionist person and it was him he, to a large extent, caused the destruction in Gaza and it will be him who will be remembered by History as Genocide Joe. It is sad to see PDF members living in America don't appreciate to what great disproprionate extent the personality of a US President drives policies--and for the most part, their respective VPs and political parties fall behind. That's been the way in America. It happened in the 60s too when Humphrey, though against the Vietnam War, largely stayed silent and loyal to Johnson.
See this article. How many Republicans actually even remotely sounded balanced in last 15+ months and then compare with the number of Democratic Congressmen then and now. Look at this courageous Senator Hollen--he is still balanced even though he could pay a price by AIPAC. Compare the conducts of the two parties in the last 15+ months and don't draw absolutist conclusions. Everything is relative. Relative!
Trump’s Gaza Plan Reflects Broader Push for Annexation of Palestinian Land
Right-wing officials in Israel, evangelical Christians in the United States and Trump appointees have become increasingly outspoken in calling for Israel to take more territory.
President Trump’s statements on Tuesday about an American takeover of the Gaza Strip and displacing millions of Palestinians were immediately dismissed by many as reckless and half-baked pronouncements, a provocative threat that Mr. Trump was unlikely to enforce.
At the same time, his comments are the latest example of how government officials on the right in both the United States and Israel now speak publicly about a shared goal: the takeover of Palestinian land.
The question of whether the West Bank and the Gaza Strip — territories captured and occupied by Israel in 1967 — might become the foundation of a future Palestinian state has been at the center of decades of failed diplomacy, bedeviling American presidents, Palestinian leaders and Israeli prime ministers.
While the prospects for this future dimmed long ago, Mr. Trump’s election has newly emboldened right-wing ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and some of Mr. Trump’s own appointees, to speak publicly about Israel’s right to fully take over the West Bank.
“It’s the most right-wing government that we’ve ever had in Israel — and there never was a U.S. administration that shared these views to this extent, either,” said Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to Washington.
Days after Mr. Trump’s election, Bezalel Smotrich, Israel’s finance minister, whom Mr. Netanyahu has given broad authority over the West Bank,
said Mr. Trump’s return to the White House meant that “the year 2025 will, with God’s help, be the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria,” using the biblical name for the territory that makes up the West Bank.
During his news conference with Mr. Netanyahu on Tuesday, Mr. Trump was asked directly whether he supported Israeli annexation of the West Bank. He
declined to answer, saying that his administration would have an announcement in “four weeks.”
But he has already appointed at least two people to his administration — Elise Stefanik, his choice to serve as ambassador to the United Nations, and Mike Huckabee, who has been nominated by Mr. Trump to be ambassador to Israel — who hold views similar to Mr. Smotrich and his allies.
During her confirmation hearing, Ms. Stefanik was asked by
Senator Chris Van Hollen, Democrat of Maryland, whether she shared Mr. Smotrich’s view that Israel had a biblical right to the entire West Bank.
She said she did.
In an interview, Mr. Van Hollen said that “there is a very dangerous alignment right now” between American and Israeli officials on the issue of Palestinian self-determination.
“Now we have someone in the White House who wants to greenlight the dreams of far-right extremists like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir,” he said, referring to Itamar Ben-Gvir, who recently resigned as Mr. Netanyahu’s national security minister over the cease-fire deal in Gaza.
On his first day in office, Mr. Trump signed an executive order reversing the Biden administration’s sanctions against a group of Israeli settlers responsible for violence and land grabs against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Israeli annexation of the West Bank is a goal shared by both ultranationalists in Israel and many evangelical Christians, including Mr. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, who see the conflict in the Middle East — and the power struggle over the land itself — as a sign of the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Mr. Huckabee has said that “there’s no such thing as a West Bank.” He said that Israeli settlements in the territory, which are considered illegal under international law, are not settlements but “neighborhoods.”
“There’s no such thing as an occupation,”
he said during a visit to the West Bank in 2017.
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