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I still remember Netanyahu bitching about Obama in front of the US Congress. He'll call anyone on their bullshit but doesn't like it when he's called on his.
describing calls for a new election as “wholly inappropriate.”
You know what's wholly inappropriate? Genocide.
“We’re not a banana republic,”
If that is the case then they should refuse US foreign aid.
“We’re not a banana republic,” he said. “The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections, and who they’ll elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted on us.”
The US people then should choose who they will fund and back
The fact that both sides casually talk about their governments like their systems and influences are interconnected shows how they are not exactly run by a democratic process but by who funds who when, where, how and why.
Bibi, you are a total asshole. You have destroyed any possible goodwill you might’ve gained for Israel. I now have nothing but bad feelings for ANY Zionist sentiment. Before I had some sympathy. Not any longer. You are the Hitler of the Jews.
any possible goodwill
White supremacist settler-colonialist states do not deserve any good will.
The people of Israel will choose when they will have elections
Well, that is not really how it works, is it? They either have elections after 4 years OR they can be called early (and often are) by the President or a majority of parliament member. They had elections in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Furthermore the US doesn't have such a system, so it is silly to draw a comparison.
Yeah, but the banana republic comment isn’t about when elections can be held. He’s basically saying that the US can’t tell Israel when to have elections, that’s for Israelis to decide.
I just meant that it isn't a vote to call for elections, so it felt like he was implying some democratic system in place. Plus external pressure can be leveraged to effect in their system.
Netanyahu told Fox News that Israel never would have called for a new U.S. election after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, and denounced Schumer’s comments as inappropriate.
Does anyone other than fascists think anything about the response to 9/11 was good?
I remember seeing people getting swept up in the transient sense of belonging and power that came with all the xenophobia and nationalism that followed. There are probably many who pine for that feeling, and fail to recognize its part in our undoing.
Oh yeah, absolutely. I remember feeling that to a degree myself (and I'm not even American), though I also remember thinking the "freedom fries" shit was dumb. But the fervor was still popular enough that Bush got his second term.
But I've been under the impression that it has since faded.
I think the word is "metastasized"
"metastisized fries" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Who cares what Netanyahu thinks about whether Netanyahu should be removed from power? "Netanyahu opposes being removed from power" isn't exactly a revelation. Tell me what other key Israeli politicians and the Israeli public think.
Fuck him and fuck Israel.
Schumer (re: Israel) "losing their way" Biden (re: huge civilian death toll in Gaza) "hurting Israel"
You weak, pathetic sons of b*tches. Your government is contributing militarily and financially to a genocidal ethno state and THIS is the best you can come up with? This is what your "criticism" looks like when someone's got you by the balls.
The alternative is for them to become a Democratic version of Trump. There's a reason why politicians are careful with their words under most circumstances.
It is kind of a weird move though. Seen that elections in Israel tooday wouldn't move the needle (at least not in the right direction) wrt their stance on Gaza or any two state solution, it's a message meant for anywhere but Israel.
Its just meant to signal they strongly dissaprove but with impotence and a personal attack that just makes them lose even more of the sway they actually have in the Israeli government
Israeli Trump has got to go. If you don't place value on human life, you have no business running a hot dog stand, much less an entire country.
"losing his way"
that's . . . that's quite a rhetorical triple axel there, Chuck
Sure Butcher Ben has "lost his way"... he slaughtered so many Palestinians that white western liberalism started being inconvenienced by all the bad press.
I'm a little confused by the calls for a re-election. Netanyahu was just re-elected a few years ago, and they're in the middle of a war and he's a constant.
Won't he likely be reelected?
This is a pretty good rundown of why you shouldn't count netanyahu out of re-election:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/29/netanyahu-is-a-failure-and-israels-next-winner/
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