Bibi has spent 30 years strangling any idea of a two state solution, undermining the PA, and carving up the occupied territories. He’s painted them into a corner where the “best” options are total expulsion (to where?) of the Palestinians or a severly apartheid state
Since 2005, the formula has been Hamas does some kind of attack, Israel responds by killing (almost exactly) 10x Gazans – until the disparity draws enough international condemnation to get Israel to stop.
Now we’re up around 25x and Bibi’s fragile coalition contains full-on genocidalists.
As dotbup says, Hamas doesn’t care either way – it’s all pr for them.
All of trump’s trade actions with China failed. The Foxconn “deal”, the failed trade war, the “Phase I” trade deal that committed China to absolutely nothing, the promised purchases China was going to make as part of that.
There was a segment about that on the radio this morning – the anger in Israel over the delay in arms shipments. I was listening and thinking “Biden only went public with that because Netanyahu hasn’t been listening in private.”
It’s certainly ironic to hear congress bleating about antisemitism when a number in the chamber themselves have publicly held antisemtitic views. It’s just a convenient excuse for them to beat up on “left wing indoctrination camps” – universities.
Conservatives get mad at EVs because the gas tax is earmarked towards road maintenance. But money is fungible. Earmarks are good politics but not really good planning.
There already is a measles outbreak there