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analysis Mirror, mirror: Dems’ Israel problems look a lot like the GOP on Ukraine In this polarized political landscape, support for Israel and Ukraine are now becoming partisan issues, with GOP elected officials and voters overwhelmingly supportive of Israel, while Democrats are standing by Ukraine
Jewish Insider fails to realize that Republicans oppose Ukraine for bad reasons and Democrats are increasingly opposed to Israel for good reasons
Iranian foreign minister
Polly Toynbee: Without continued support from the left-wing, the BBC is destined to collapse
The left-wing:
Iranian foreign minister smiling
Labour Right: The Greens are doing well right now, but let’s see what they have to say when the General Election rolls around
Greens:
Iranian foreign secretary
Keir Starmer: If the Green Party take power they will legalise cocaine
Former Labour voters:
China is not the world’s only rising power. A broadening group of states—including Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates—have claimed seats at the table. They and others have the power to shape their regional environments, and they ignore the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States ever more frequently. In the twentieth century, some of these states aligned with rival superpower-led blocs. But today, to maximize their autonomy, they strike deals with all the great powers. Their noted indifference to many U.S. pleas is partly the result of the chaotic Western military interventions during the first decades of this century. The failures of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya undermined the idea that liberal interventionism was, as Blair remarked in 1999, “a more subtle blend of mutual self-interest and moral purpose.” Instead, it came to be seen as a recipe for disorder.
The West is finally taking Moscow’s threats seriously. European states increasingly recognize Russia as a long-term, generational threat that requires a long-term, generational response. This will demand the stamina and determination of Bevin. But the West has yet to win back support from many key countries. As Fiona Hill, a former senior director of the U.S. National Security Council, said in 2023, the war has become a proxy for a rebellion of “the rest” against the West. In UN General Assembly votes over the past two years, countries that collectively represent approximately two-thirds of the world’s population have either abstained or voted against motions to censure Putin. Many of those countries have rebuffed Western attempts to persuade them, accusing the West of having double standards and noting that its interest in their needs has been erratic at best. Given the West’s hoarding of COVID-19 vaccines and its inadequate action to mitigate climate-related loss and damage, they have a point.
As the British Shadow Foreign Secretary, I have traveled extensively across North Africa and the Middle East, including to Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. All will be vital partners for the United Kingdom in this decade, not least as the country seeks to reconstruct Gaza and—as soon as possible—realize a two-state solution. From the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, the Labour Party has stuck to progressive principles, urgently calling for international law to be respected in full by all parties. The United Kingdom cannot end this terrible conflict. But it does have the capacity to surge aid to support rebuilding, and a key goal for the Labour Party is to work with international partners to recognize Palestine as a state, as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution.
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Then again,
The thing about this is Trump will just pretend like any climbdown is actually a victory, and everyone will just shrug and go along with it. He’s incapable of shame. You cannot humiliate the man.
I suppose that’s fair
I wish this didn't feel so prophetic but considering how the alternative is Trump & Hegseth accepting a humiliating climbdown, and that the bedrock behaviour of the US & Israel from the Gaza Genocide onwards has been exercises in intelligence-insulting irony, it's becoming harder to discount.
Six months ago, the message being tacitly communicated to Qatar was, "You need to shut up and put up with Israel illegally bombing you (good), otherwise you might have Iran bombing you (bad)." How did that work out? What prize did Qatar win for playing along with that incredibly stupid game?
Six months ago, the message being tacitly communicated to Qatar was, "You need to shut up and put up with Israel illegally bombing you (good), otherwise you might have Iran bombing you (bad)." How did that work out? What prize did Qatar win for playing along with that incredibly stupid game?
Everyone's laughing at the British expats complaining about how they moved to Dubai because they were told it was a delightful little capitalist utopia in a geopolitical prophylactic, and sure, hilarious. But one question: Where on earth did they get that idea from? Who told them that?
Condolences to MBS, bin Hamad et al; your visions of transforming the Gulf into a real estate/crypto/data centre/capitalist theme park tourism bonanza are being fed into the woodchipper so your vital strategic partner can create a permanent hellscape on your land and sea borders. Thanks for playing!
And now the US will have to try and convince the Gulf States it spent decades trying to bring onside that it has their interests and security at heart and wasn't just using them as a buffer for Israel while the Israelis laugh on their own TV stations and tell Trump "One more run; Doha can take it!"
My Dad, the youngest boy in a large Irish Catholic family, was raised in a seminary to become the priest of the family
He always used to tell us about this one time when the Pope visited and, during benediction, uttered the words ‘audite sanguine opus’
I never understood what it meant…until now
Stephen Colbert on the Colbert Report, wielding an AK-47
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Good thing I'm not close to anyone being very directly, personally affected by this horror show! If I did, they'd probably come across like an even bigger conceited asshole! 👍
Five words too many there!
Deepest sympathies to this person and any other absolute fucking losers. You convey your character with perfect clarity.
It must be exhausting to enter every interaction knowing that you’re already a priori correct and better informed than everyone, but also that it’s beneath you to provide general commentary on a microblogging website for the benefit of others, consigned to glibly remarking upon how smart you are.
This person has ‘scientist’ in their bio and is apparently both assuming my statement was the conclusion of a (false) deductive process at which I had just arrived rather than a statement of fact, and also sneering at such a process.
There is an unbroken thread of US (and Israeli) impunity for unambiguous war crimes tracing from the first Gulf War through Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya to the present day, culminating in the Gaza Doctrine. Bombarding and collectively punishing unarmed civilians because legitimate goals are too hard.
If it’s not a regime change operation; if there is no intention to advance to a ground invasion; if the strategy is to provoke inter-ethnic uprisings and conflicts; if the plan is to smart bomb until there is none left, then switch to dumb bombs, then the practical objective is tacit: Genocide.
There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
