very temporarily reduce US aid to Israel of course.
Must be the height of morbid irony that Israel is now erecting “safe zones” for civilians in Gaza. Guess what they’ll turn into over time? Not literal concentration camps, but goddamn, the similarities are too striking to ignore.
I’ve been decluttering recently, and a fascinating part of that process has been reading old magazines. I’m currently working on an Economist from Feb 2020 where some of the big stories were (1) trying to assess IF covid might disrupt global supply chains (2) whether Mike Bloomberg was the last great moderate hope to take out Bernie now that Biden had failed in Iowa and NH.
Really drives home that we’re really bad at predicting the future and that a lot of things that could shape the next few years might barely be on our radar screens now.
I think they had a 40-page plan, which they discounted as not viable but then someone reported that they saw them practicing the plan. It was not an issue of connecting dots. They had a full painting.
This is flaw number 8 of most conspiracies, which are uniformly stupid. It’s also a major flaw with people like Elon putting a lot of resources behind their desired ends. Their goals are often swamped by second and third order consequences.
they wanted to do a palestinian holocaust.
now, they’re doing their palestinian holocaust.
College students dabbling in geopolitics rarely know what they’re talking about.
They learn from their school presidents, apparently.
The last parenthetical in the article above is chef’s kiss.
Now do boomers and Facebook becoming Nazis.
and fox news
https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1732603061623746711?s=20
The thing is with this is that whatever you say about anti Israel protests, that they’re obfuscating the difference between Israel and Jewish people as a people, etc. this is clearly in bad faith where the country of Israel and the politics around it has been completely subsumed by ‘Jewishness’ and ‘anti-Jewishness’ as an infection of people’s ideology.
It’s the exact same problem that’s happening with Hindu nationalism in India, Islam in Pakistan, etc. Ethnic and religious nationalism fused with a good faith desire to avoid offending ethnic groups is poisoning discussions everywhere.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1732179418787783089
Twitter seems to be blowing up about this right now.
Kind of funny seeing conservatives take the words are violence approach with such passion and liberal colleges taking the only direct incitement leading to immediate action violates free speech route. Kind of shows that principled free speech advocates are few and far between.
The Israel-based venture capitalist outlined three categories of people for whom outreach, rather than attacks, is the best strategy. The first group is what he dubbed “the impressionables,” who are “typically young people, they reflexively support the weak, oppose the oppressor,” but “are not really knowledgeable.” For this category of people, the goal is not to “convince them of anything,” but to “show them that it’s much more complicated than it seems.” Seeding doubt, he said, would make certain audiences think twice before attending a protest. “So it’s really about creating some kind of confusion,” Fisher continued, “but really, just to make it clear to them that it’s really a lot more complicated.”
A second category, Fisher explained, is the “uncomfortable sympathizer,” a group that “wants to support Israel – they’re typically more liberal,” but opposes the current government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. These types can be won over, Fisher said, by pointing out “that we are a multi-ethnic, diverse, democratic liberal society with rotten apples.”
The final group consists of those who are “reflexively pro-Israel, kind of ‘Israel, right or wrong.’” Members of this group “are not actually very knowledgeable,” so they needed to be equipped with the right facts to make them "more effective in advocating for Israel,” Fisher said.
Fisher repeatedly noted the need to offer accurate and nuanced information to rebut critics of Israel’s actions. Yet at times, he offered his own misinformation, such as his claim that “anti-Israel” human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch “didn’t condemn the October 7th massacre.”
https://twitter.com/AlwadayHussein/status/1733045822474863075?t=x_l2ZUiMl_L46U-h39tZxA&s=19
It seems to me that Israel has
achieved more than it dreamed of in
Gaza, despite its false pretense and
calculated media lamentation
It also seems to me that Hamas lost
more than it expected, despite the
delirium of victory
What about the Gazans?
I say it with sorrow that they are the
biggest losers in this barbaric battle
between the internal occupier and
the external occupier
A loss that exceeded our worst
pessimistic expectations and our
most terrifying nightmares
Surely putting a governor on “calling for the genocide of Jews” is a bit different than criticism of “safe spaces”. I don’t see how holding both views is inconsistent.
