🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Israel-Palestine Politics Thread II

[squeekness]

Trump announces withdrawal from UN human rights body and halt to funding for Palestinian refugees

President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will withdraw from the U.N.’s top human rights body and will not resume funding for the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees.

apnews.com

He wants to starve them outso they will leave. He doesn't understand that this is their homeland and most will go to the death to keep it. It will be Viet Nam and Afghanistan all over again.

 

[Ironfan72]

He wants to starve them outso they will leave. He doesn't understand that this is their homeland and most will go to the death to keep it. It will be Viet Nam and Afghanistan all over again.

Really feels like Trump is trying to start a world war.

 

[squeekness]

Really feels like Trump is trying to start a world war.

Scarily so. I don't want to know what my blood pressure is right now.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Really feels like Trump is trying to start a world war.

Or at least a civil war where the blue states secede and join Canada or something.

 

[Ironfan72]

Or at least a civil war where the blue states secede and join Canada or something.

Sadly i live in a red state, the owner of where i work is a Maga and came in this morning bragging Canada caved, we had to prove that was not the case, he still thinks even with actual proof that Canada didnt give anything they hadnt already agreed to do with President Biden, that Trump won, thats the world we live in, worse part, he graduated from West Point

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Sadly i live in a red state, the owner of where i work is a Maga and came in this morning bragging Canada caved, we had to prove that was not the case, he still thinks even with actual proof that Trump won, thats the world we live in, worse part, he graduated from West Point

I'm in Florida, I get it...

 

[Ironfan72]

I'm in Florida, I get it...

Im in Ohio, we never used to be this red and the large cities are not Maga, but its pretty bad here, Neo-Nazis walking around freely, republicans threatening sanctuary cities with taking money way if they dont cooperate with ICE raids in their city

 

[squeekness]

Sadly i live in a red state, the owner of where i work is a Maga and came in this morning bragging Canada caved, we had to prove that was not the case, he still thinks even with actual proof that Canada didnt give anything they hadnt already agreed to do with President Biden, that Trump won, thats the world we live in, worse part, he graduated from West Point

They don't want to be corrected, they are adamantly stupid.

 

[Brutikus]

West point produced Confederate Officers who wanted the slavery to continue and Union officers who slaughtered native Americans by the tribes so there's no high bar there to look for.

 

[Ironfan72]

West point produced Confederate Officers who wanted the slavery to continue and Union officers who slaughtered native Americans by the tribes so there's no high bar there to look for.

Agreed, we put these people on a mountain but they can be just as horrible as anyone else, in this case he was there during the cold war when we were facing off against the Soviets, say he was 80s air defense, so he clearly forgot who he pledged his alligence to, not a person

 

[Brutikus]

Agreed, we put these people on a mountain but they can be just as horrible as anyone else, in this case he was there during the cold war when we were facing off against the Soviets, say he was 80s air defense, so he clearly forgot who he pledged his alligence to, not a person

True.

The Wermacht having their oath of allegiance changed to unquestioning loyalty to The Fuhrer and not Germany was a mistake that led to the various (11 if I recall correct) attempts on hitlers life by the German military during the middle and nearer to end of WW2.

 

[squeekness]

Tell Trump that. He has no sense of reality.

 

[Ironfan72]

I study history, i am seeing so very scary parallels with nazi germany now.

 

[squeekness]

Ha!

 

[blueharvest]

US officials now say Trump only wants to displace Palestinians from Gaza temporarily

President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and his main spokesperson are walking back the idea that he wants the permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, after American allies and even Republican lawmakers rebuffed his suggestion that the U.S. take “ownership” of the territory.

apnews.com

 

[blueharvest]

Michigan's Arab American community offers muted response to Trump's Gaza takeover plan

Arab Americans in Michigan are reacting more cautiously to President Donald Trump’s remarks on the Israel-Hamas war than they did to Democratic candidates during the 2024 presidential campaign.

apnews.com

 

[squeekness]

US officials now say Trump only wants to displace Palestinians from Gaza temporarily

President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and his main spokesperson are walking back the idea that he wants the permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, after American allies and even Republican lawmakers rebuffed his suggestion that the U.S. take “ownership” of the territory.

apnews.com

Any Palestinians that leave Gaza have ever been allowed back and I don't see that changing.

 

[squeekness]

Of course he does. It's the point.

 

[blueharvest]

On Gaza, Democrats say ‘the president United States sees the future Atlantic City’

Republicans avoid going into detail about what Trump meant by his remarks about Gaza and Israel, Eric Garcia reports.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[blueharvest]

Of course he does. It's the point.

I'm sure this was their plan from the beginning.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[squeekness]

 

[squeekness]

 

[blueharvest]

Portraying Trump Plan as 'Voluntary' Migration, Israel Prepares for Forced Displacement of Palestinians | Common Dreams

Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza and force Palestinians to resettle against their will is a violation of human rights. Israeli officials claim the exodus will be "voluntary," but experts say Israel's U.S.-backed destruction of Gaza can't be rectified by another war crime. #FreeGaza

www.commondreams.org

 

[blueharvest]

‘Worst nightmare’: Egypt and Jordan put in impossible bind by Trump Gaza plan

Though heavily dependent on US aid, Amman and Cairo face political calamity at home should they comply

www.theguardian.com