Israel has sparked global outrage after dropping leaflets over the besieged Gaza Strip, warning Palestinians to either cooperate with its forces or face forced displacement or eradication. The messages, written in Arabic, carried explicit threats, including the chilling statement: “The world map will not change if all the people of Gaza cease to exist.”
The move, condemned as a psychological warfare tactic, has intensified concerns over Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, with many seeing the leaflets as an open admission of ethnic cleansing.
The threats also reference a so-called “Trump plan”, aligning with recent remarks by US President Donald Trump. who suggested the mass expulsion of Gaza’s population to neighbouring countries. The posters featured images of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity and wanted by the IC
The deafening silence from all the people who were so noisy about gEnOcIdE in October 2024.
Right here bub. Genocide Joe laid the groundwork for this.
Clearly you haven’t read the numerous comments sections where other people have left your exact same comment.
The real deafening silence is the democrats on Electoral reform. Don’t they support democracy? Then why don’t they support changing how we vote so people can be represented by their options in the voting booth?
Are you reading all the comments? Nobody is being silent about it
Nobody is silent about this what the fuck are you even talking about?
The amount I heard the word “genocide” was much higher in October 2024.
Well, you were supporting it back then. Now that you’ve come around to opposing genocide, you’re no longer getting pushback.
Hey, how about instead of chastising people for telling biden/kamala they needed to pivot here you look at the DNC that took a campaign strategy of “Well, let’s ignore a huge issue because we don’t want to lose donor money”.
Trump won by unabashedly appealing to his base. Biden/Kamala lost because they ignored their base and chased after Trump’s base instead.
Way to miss the point.
What point? That trump allowed the same genocide that biden did? That functionally trump and biden had the same policy for gaza?
Tell me, how would Biden or Kamala have responded to this news? Whispering to someone “Wow, netty sure is an asshole”? Would they have actually even threatened to cut aid? What are current democrats in congress saying about this? Has any non-progressive democrat condemned this?
Yeah, that’s the point. One that you are missing. The party didn’t listen to it’s base and lost an election because of it. Gaza is just as fucked as it would have been under either presidency.
I think many people here are missing the real point underneath all of this. All the Americans who are still so delusional they believe democracy in the usa is functioning are the ones blaming voters who’s conscious wont allow them to vote for an obvious controlled opposition party. Here is the reality. Neo liberal democracy is a farce and always has been. You can not have true democracy without economic democracy. What you actually have in that case is class dictatorship.
We have a ratcheting political system. The right moves in and takes power and leverages everything as far right as they can get away with as quickly as possible, meanwhile the center right which masquerades as a “left party” with their milquetoast virtue signaling of waving pride flags and blm signaling while still supporting the main factor that allows racist ideology to flourish within policing agencies, global drug prohibition and the militarized police and surveillance state that has risen from it, while in power they make every excuse not to move the dial to the left and thus the pawl of the ratchet locks and only allows rightward movement.
The 14 traits of fascism are present in both parties. Albeit more prominently so in the maga right but its still there in the center right democrat party. Both sides are owned by the same exact wall street military and prison industry profiteers this is an undisputable fact. The only one of the 14 traits they can claim plausible deniability in regards to is fraudulent elections however there is more than enough evidence to say that the us presidential election is rigged and has been since reagan and maybe even since kenedy considering the deal that was made with the mafia to get JFK in the white house.
Now we have elon musk buying trumps election in broad daylight and star link satellite systems were connected to tabulation machines in multiple precincts but lets ignore the cybersecurity experts who have claimed that there is legitimate evidence the 2024 election was stolen. The only half truth trump may ever have told is that the 2020 election was stolen but he didn’t complain when it was rigged in his favor in 2016 because he doesn’t give a fuck about election integrity so long as he benefits from it.
It is obvious to anyone paying attention that nothing in the US will change without a revolution. The democrats fight leftward movement at every opportunity. They disenfranchised sanders voters in 2 primaries and forced tired status quo bullshit onto us and blamed us for the dnc leaks sinking Clinton and then called it Russian propaganda. This all goes back to the thirties and the wall street putsch business plot and then nixon, then Reagan killing the fairness in reporting doctrine and bush also ensuring that was not codified into law. Now we have right wing fascist apologia rags masquerading as true unbiased journalism. 90% of the media we consume all owned by 6 major corporations all circularly owned by blackrock, vangaurd state street and blackstone. Democracy in the usa is dead. If you think it’s still functioning you are naive.
Which is why the practical arm of the left promotes the Dems. Not because they are enough, or even good, but because of the two options they are the less overtly fascist. We don’t vote blue because it’s sufficient, we do it because it’s necessary to slow the descent enough for sufficient methods to take hold. Neo liberal democracy is a farce, but it’s a farce with a bad outcome and a catastrophic outcome.
We vote for bad to stave off catastrophe, so good can actually establish a foothold. Didn’t pay off this time unfortunately, now good has to be fantastic to even slide a toe in the door, and it’s a steep uphill battle at that. You’re right, fascism is definitely more prominent in the MAGA right, our job is harder than it had to be, but so it goes.
Silver lining, I guess we can lean into accelerationism now. Not my first choice, for the sake of those less financially stable than myself, but not really much option now. Send it, sure, might as well at this point. I would’ve preferred building a viable labor movement under the “stationary” part of the ratchet cycle, but we’re here now. If we’re playing the hand we’re dealt, sure, accelerationism.
“Good” isn’t a natural phenomenon that just needs a little space to establish a foothold. It takes deliberate action, effort, and sacrifice. And society doesn’t magically reach a stable state. That’s ridiculous.
Each election may have a bad and a worse outcome, but it’s relative. Voting for the less-bad is a strategy that works even when both parties push toward evil. It works even when the choices are a party that supports genocide quietly and one that supports genocide loudly. If the “practical left” is just voting for the less-bad, while shitting on and shunning the people trying to do the hard work because the magical Fairy of Good hasn’t yet shown up to establish that foothold with a wave of the wand, then I question how practical and how left that faction actually is.
No one is doing that.
That’s funny, I seem to recall an Uncommitted movement…
Fascism lite is still fascism, fighting to support a controlled opposition group is fighting against your own self interests. Ballot box socialism/ ballot box activism is a fools errand. We are behind a point where the system will be repaired through the mechanisms of the system itself. The democratic party actively sabotages democracy to ensure class dictatorship continues at all costs.
I am one of those less stable than yourself. I have no job, i live in an old drafty rv and struggle to care for the pets i love and my partner and i. I think those who are too comfortable or comfortable enough think allowing things to continue and fighting to preserve the lesser of two evils is the best option but allowing things to continue when things are already awful we already have a fascist totalitarian police state where wage slavery is the norm where millennials like myself and the younger generations wont have the luxury of owning homes or having a retirement or even social safety nets like social security st this point. I might end up having to survive off canned food and moldy bread from food banks if trump cuts food stamps more than theyve already been cut considering inflation and rising food costs/ corporate price gouging.
Any shade of fascism is unacceptable. Voting for a slightly less awful form of fascism and blaming people who didn’t vote or voted for jill stein / delacruz is like shooting yourself in the foot because it wouldn’t let you walk off a cliff on purpose.
We are in an age where a majority of what we see is manipulated propaganda that works to silence anyone with my opinion. Look at the reaction to the extrajudicial execution of Brian Thompson / support for luigi mangione. Every social media outlet silenced users who want to see revolution. We get chastised by the “ViOlEnCe iS nEvEr ThE aNsWeR” by the same society that brought you kent state and countless other extrajudicial police state murders. If non violence were so successful then those in power wouldn’t have a need for wars or militarized police or the death penalty. These are scared hypocrites who will and can do anythinf possible to maintain their power and present the illusion that what we are seeing and interpreting is a fair and level representation of reality and not a heavily manipulated propaganda filled control mechanism.
Everyone always says its better to have that still point within the ratcheting mechanism to build resistance but its impossible And naive to believe this because the democratic party and the state/ class dictatorship actively subverts and sabotages any movement left and manufacturing the consent of the populace to accept their system and play by their rigged rules.
Okay, I’ll spell it out then.
Before the election, there were all sorts of people crowing about the one genocide going on that they could use to get their fascist elected, and now that that very fascist is accelerating that very genocide - fucking crickets.
Those pre-election gEnOcIdE people were being disingenous then, as is evidenced by the deafening silence now.
You are literally talking to one. And frankly, you are covering your eyes because you are uncomfortable with the fact that they are STILL protesting the genocide.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/thousands-across-the-u-s-protest-trump-policies
But go ahead and try to act like they aren’t being consistent. Cling to your conspiracy theories rather than recognizing the party needs to change to be responsive to it’s voters.
You’re the one talking about Democrats, not me.
How much effort have you put in to voicing your concerns about the Uighurs, Sudanese, Congolese? Or is it just this genocide you don’t like?
First, yes, I’ve complained about those.
Second, We aren’t funding any of those genocides as a matter of US policy.
Tell me what the US is supposed to do short of invading China, Sudan, or the Congo? The best you could say is more tariffs against china for the Uighurs. For the others we have basically no leverage beyond maybe USAID.
And who’s trying to shut that down? Biden’s out, Harris lost. Who’s in charge of all three branches of the US federal government now, and what are they doing to resolve this one genocide?
The US wasn’t sending weapons to support those genocides for you.
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Hi, I’m still here to point out biden was supplying israel with billions in support as they committed genocide all the way until JANUARY OF THIS YEAR. How’s that for deafening silence?
By the way, think about what impression you give off when you spongebob text the word genocide. If it helps, try doing that with The Holocaust and think about how that looks.
Hi, I’m here to point out that those arms sales were designated by many Congresses going back decades, and the deals for them were not reversible by a presidential edict, except for arms that were not for “defensive purposes,” which Biden was able to and did put a hold on … Except that House Republicans reversed that.
Biden could’ve vetoed the multiple aid bills that passed his desk with arms shipments to israel after oct 7th and after it became clear Israel was using this as an excuse to obliterate gaza.
He could’ve also enforced the leahy laws which prohibit arms shipments to countries that are suspected of using them for human rights abuses.
He didn’t do either because he is a zionist who is fine with the genocide of Palestinians.
“That’s the way we’ve always done it” is a shit excuse for genocide. But any excuse will do for the genocidal.
The Leahy law is RIGHT THERE.
Why would Biden bypass congress for arms sales that were “designated by many Congresses”?: https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f
israel’s campaign of genocide that it has been waging for over a year (and more accurately, since its founding) is not defensive. Biden even claimed that he’d set a red line, but then he’d pretend nothing happened when israel crossed them: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/nx-s1-4983786/where-is-the-biden-administrations-red-line-when-it-comes-palestinian-deaths-in-gaza
Do you think 2,000-pound bombs are used for defensive purposes?: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/
Oh, I see what you mean in that article:
Wow, pausing a single shipment when israel already had more than enough to level all of Palestine. That really made a difference!
Sure is better now, huh.
Sure would be better if Biden had stopped supporting a genocide and listened to their base. Maybe they would have been able to stop Trump winning, at least. So good job on you for wanting more of what makes the DNC lose to Trump.
The Russian checks stopped coming, so they moved on to other things now
Because they were bots
Still here, Joe Biden started the genocide, trump looks like he’s going to finish it.
Not sure if the liberals are much louder in condemning this, judging by the comments here they seem to just want to say “I told you so”
EDIT: I try show some brevity once instead of writing paragraphs and get told I don’t know my history, so here’s some paragraphs.
Yes Israel has been carrying out a process of slow ethnic cleansing for decades. Biden while in congress along with all the other dems repeatedly backed arms sales to this apartheid state knowing it was going to kill Palestinians. The violence ramped up in 2023 as Israeli settlers committed pogroms against Palestinians, which is part of the reason hamas did oct 7th. During this time Biden did nothing to reign in the Israelis, and instead tried to throw it under the rug to get a deal with the Saudis to normalize relations. Then Oct 7th happened and Israel went on a full onslaught against Gaza, and to a lesser extent the west bank and Lebanon. Biden again did nothing to stop this and continued to give military aid and diplomatic support to Israel. By the end of his administration Gaza was uninhabitable. Now trump seems primed to allow Israel to finish what it started and complete the ethnic cleansing.
Stunning lack of knowledge of history. Bravo. This is why no one should take you guys seriously. You’re useful tools for Russian propaganda.
Russian propaganda, wtf. Newsflash Russia has good relations with Israel, not as subservient as the u.s., but they aren’t really complaining about the genocide. I guess you just think that anything that’s against the democrats is Russian propaganda, in which case I’d say your a good tool for democrat propaganda.
Made an edit since you people can’t seem to take a short reply but I’ll copy it here:
I try show some brevity once instead of writing paragraphs and get told I don’t know my history, so here’s some paragraphs.
Yes Israel has been carrying out a process of slow ethnic cleansing for decades. Biden while in congress along with all the other dems repeatedly backed arms sales to this apartheid state knowing it was going to kill Palestinians. The violence ramped up in 2023 as Israeli settlers committed pogroms against Palestinians, which is part of the reason hamas did oct 7th. During this time Biden did nothing to reign in the Israelis, and instead tried to throw it under the rug to get a deal with the Saudis to normalize relations. Then Oct 7th happened and Israel went on a full onslaught against Gaza, and to a lesser extent the west bank and Lebanon. Biden again did nothing to stop this and continued to give military aid and diplomatic support to Israel. By the end of his administration Gaza was uninhabitable. Now trump seems primed to allow Israel to finish what it started and complete the ethnic cleansing.
Lol for fuck sake… Are you for real??? Biden started the genocide? You fucking sure about that?
What a joke. Most of these people never even knew of the existence of Palestine prior to 2024. Read a fucking book
Ffs “this phase of the genocide” happy, point still stands, Biden enabled Israel to bomb Gaza into obliteration and trumps finishing the job and all Liberals have to say is “i told you so”
I know Israel has been carrying out a slow genocide for the past couple decades but they haven’t ramped up to this level since the Nakba. If you think this is the same as anything pre October 7th, post 73 you need to look at the pictures coming out of gaza.
Uh yeah Biden didn’t start “this phase of the genocide” either.
lol they are trying hard to blame Palestinian for trump to the point they are willing to say Biden fid nothing wrong. Even thought they vetoed all humanitarian resolution at the UN. Like for fuck sake just search google how Biden supported the genocide.
Did I say Biden did nothing wrong?
Here’s a challenge: try to discuss this topic without resorting to straw men. In my experience, on this site, every single discussion about this topic has ended up this way.
“Biden supported the genocide” is a factual statement that i agree with.
“Biden started the genocide” is fucking stupid hyperbolic partisan cheerleading.
And trumps not going to finish it, it was a play on words for brevity, see the edit. Both of the actions were/will be done by Israel with the support and weapons of the u.s.
No one seems to be calling out the trump line as hyperbolic partisan cheerleading. Or any of the other comments on here saying trump is committing genocide.
How about the deafening silence from the Jewish community.
Such a deafening silence.
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
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Sup. If you’re out and around Jews (like me) you’re probably hearing about how Israel is an antisemitic state because zionism is a philosophy that seeks to other us. If you’re not hearing from us, it’s probably because you’re not conducting yourself like someone who’s ready to listen
And, frankly, I understand why some Jews would be a little guarded when the topic of Israel comes up. Antisemitism is real and you’ll certainly find people with a negative view on Israel that are conflating the nation with Jews. That’s a conversation that can get really uncomfortable really quick.
It’s why I have nothing but respect for the likes of “Jewish voice for peace” and the many Jewish college students and professors that have stood for the Palestinians. It’s also why I hate someone trying to treat the Jewish community as having homogeneous beliefs.
my family has been in the united states for ~140 years. before i left instagram i would pretty regularly get death threats in my DMs. the one that stood out most to me said “go back where you came from before i send you back in a pine box, kike”
it was just so dumb. but also indicative of what it can be like for me to move around sometimes. people threaten me with violence for existing from time to time. when you live like that you learn who’s willing to listen and who’s in their current state unreachable. so yeah. if you’re not hearing something from the Jewish community, it’s probably because the Jewish community you want to hear from doesn’t trust you for some reason. you don’t surround yourself with a pocket of safety and so we distance ourselves from you.
people in this moment saying Jews are responsible for israel don’t really understand that israel represents a single perspective on jewish identity, one that many Jews openly reject. the other thing to understand is israel has open citizenship for Jews. it’s super easy for us to emigrate there. why might you think we haven’t? could it be because we fundamentally disagree with its existence?