NoneOfUrBusiness

The thing that pisses me off the most these days is Westerners thinking the “rules-based” order ever mattered. It’s not in retreat because there were never rules protecting small states from oppression by stronger actors; it was just out of sight from Westerners until 2022.

In Gaza the world has watched as a blockade on food, aid and medical supplies, in defiance of binding orders by the international court of justice (ICJ), has now entered into its third month. Israel, in search of security, has in the past month bombed Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza. It is daily urging the US to be given permission to bomb Iran.

Yeah the only new part is that they’re looking to pick a direct fight with Iran. Own this shit already you pussies.

Having lived in Germany in the '90s and given current political winds, I don’t see AfD being able to get very far.

Two crucial things have changed between the 90s and now, though: the standard of living and the number of immigrants (both real and as perceived by Germans). The former is obvious, and as for the latter between the 90s and now there have been multiple (American-caused European-enabled) refugee crises in Europe due to the influx of Middle Eastern people fleeing war. This has made Germany go haywire, counteracting any advantage they may have had on the anti-fascism front over Americans—who are for the most part already used to having Others in the same environment as the Self.

According to a study in 2018 by Leipzig University, 56% of Germans sometimes thought the many Muslims made them feel like strangers in their own country, up from 43% in 2014. In 2018, 44% thought immigration by Muslims should be banned, up from 37% in 2014.[26] -Wikipedia

This sort of disdain for an Other is the indicator for fascism, and it’s very much on the rise in Germany.

They have guardrails yes, but those are only a mildly effective stalling method. Fundamentally Germany is falling at breakneck speed too, so those guardrails will only be a mild inconvenience.

Germany’s AfD gets a lot of publicity, but I’m betting on the UK being the next Western democracy to fall into fascism.

Now that you put it like that this whole thing is sounding a lot better. More isolated US? Sign me the fuck up, though unfortunately I don’t think it’s that simple.

Okay I’ll bite: What did Trump do in his first term that had a material negative impact on Palestine that wasn’t just regular US foreign policy?

I don’t think anyone was expecting Israel to actually abide by the ceasefire, but as long as there are no gross violations Gazans can get some measure of peace that they notably didn’t get under Biden.

The expanding West Bank settlements Trump supports are also genocide.

True enough, but what is Trump doing and what did he do in the past to materially support these settlements? Alternatively, what did Biden do to materially impede their expansion? Differences in rhetoric don’t matter to the Palestinians being expelled from their homes. And please don’t respond with Biden’s executive order that sanctioned a total of four people.

the “there’s a refugee camp with a never-ending stream of needless and preventable deaths” aspect of the genocide will continue unabated.

I mean yes, but what is Trump going to do to exacerbate that that Biden wasn’t and Harris wasn’t going to? America was simply never going to become a source of positive change in this conflict, so if anything Trump’s isolationist tendencies work in Palestinians’ favor, and otherwise he’s neutral compared to Biden/Harris.

You do realize the genocide is (for now) over right? Like there’s literally a ceasefire going on. Trump overturning Biden’s posturing is… Well, it’s not good but making this your “told you so” moment is just silly.

I mean there aren’t any on this platform, but in the real world they’re probably celebrating the ceasefire.

Nimrod was abducted by Hamas gunmen, along with the rest of his tank unit, near the Nahal Oz military base during the 7 October attacks. He was 19 years old.

“Abducted”? Okay say what you want about the civilian hostages but this guy wasn’t abducted; he was captured. He’s a POW.

That aside why the change of heart from Netanyahu?

his faux-masculine base

From their comment.

there is stated desire to have it

There is? Haven’t they explicitly stated they don’t want them?

I mean okay but AFAIK there’s no evidence Iran has or is working on nuclear weapons.

They don’t (at least publicly) have a nuclear weapons program.

I seriously have no idea.

It’s not even extreme; that applies to most of their decisions, but not this one, which literally makes no sense. The 100% Islamic thing to do even if you don’t care about women’s lives or autonomy or any of that would be to encourage women to become doctors so they can treat other women and minimize haram mixing between genders. I mean they haven’t exactly been following Islam up to this point but this time it’s particularly egregious because it crosses from “Islam doesn’t tell you/allow you to do that what the fuck are you doing” to “Islam explicitly tells you not to do this what the fuck are you doing”.

Source: Am Muslim, up until now I could at least comprehend most of their decisions (in the sense that I was familiar with the thought process that lead to them because misogyny is everywhere around here; I obviously don’t condone any of it), but now I’m as flabbergasted as everyone else.

Okay up until now you could kinda sorta see what they’re trying to do if you try to think as an old Middle Eastern guy who thinks Islam allows him to be a bigot, but this is just weird as fuck. Preventing women from becoming midwives means that only men will be able to help women give birth, which Islamically MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING SENSE. I thought I knew what these guys are doing, but now I have no idea.

is false.

How so? Hamas attacked a number of Israeli military bases and outposts on October 7th, which was along with taking hostages the goal of the attack. The Israeli narrative conveniently ignores that, painting the whole thing as one big act of barbarism.

still Hamas killing innocent people is not deserving of compassion albeit I understand their reason.

It’s not about compassion. They definitely committed a bunch of atrocities on October 7th, and that very much deserves condemnation, but ignoring the very real military goals behind the attacks helps no one but Israel. Nobody really talks about that anymore, but if you remember before it was overshadowed by the genocide in Gaza things like how much of Israeli accusations against Hamas was true, how many casualties were Israeli friendly fire, what Hamas’s goals behind the attack were, etc etc were still open questions. The world quite reasonably stopped focusing on these things because Israel kept one-upping themselves in genociding Gazans, but that had the side effect of cementing the Israeli narrative on them as reality in the minds of most pro-Palestinian Westerners. What I’m saying is: Condemning terror that happened during the attack and condemning the attack itself are a different things, and one of them invalidates many legitimate acts of resistance.