Comment by lenerdenator

Comment by lenerdenator 4 days ago

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If that cease-fire holds, I'll be very surprised.

More likely than Biden's incompetence is that Bibi now has a variable solved for in the geopolitical calculus: the American election now has a winner. He finds a kindred spirit in Trump and thinks he is now working with an American administration that will let him do whatever he wants without even the appearance of trying to rein him in. There is no Rashida Tlaib in Trump's party.

But that's on a different subject than the greater thread discussion.

bbqfog 4 days ago

People in Gaza are celebrating the proposed ceasefire and Zionists are angry about it. I’m no Trump fan but it does indeed look like he’ll be better than Biden (who was the worst).

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  • lenerdenator 4 days ago

    The people in Gaza are probably desperate enough to accept anything at this point and everyone involved has a long history of going back on their word.

    Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and supports West Bank settlements. To suddenly give an Iran-backed militia a win goes against literally everything in the grand scheme of things.

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    • briandear 4 days ago

      Are they desperate enough to overthrow Hamas?

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      • lenerdenator 4 days ago

        They weren't desperate enough to vote Hamas out over the last decade or so.

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