...the Zionist state is not, and has never been, a democracy. That’s another lie. It is a colonial ethnocracy, or more specifically, a settler colonist state. Canada and the U.S. are two other examples of the latter. Sure, the Jewish people have suffered a lot over the years, but that is no excuse to oppress other people! That isn’t a radical thing to say. Furthermore, as the U.N. General Assembly declared in November 1975, Zionism is a “form of racism and racial discrimination.” It is a racist and imperialist ideology. It should be condemned! - Mara
From my AO3 fic entitled "A Responsibility to Prevent Genocide?: Royalty, Revolution, and Bloody Zionists"
Call Down The Hawk - Maggie Stiefvater / Graywaren - Maggie Stiefvater / Peinture 324 x 181 cm - Pierre Soulages / The Son Of Man - René Magritte / Graywaren - Maggie Stiefvater / Graywaren - Maggie Stiefvater
In defiance of the UN resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire, Israel is bombing civillian homes in Rafah right now. Entire neighborhoods are being destroyed.
Desafiando la resolución de la ONU que pide un alto el fuego inmediato, Israel está bombardeando casas civiles en Rafah en este momento. Barrios enteros están siendo destruidos.
"Ms. Ashi has a point about social media. They are not to blame here. Israel has broken so many international laws it isn’t even funny. There have been over 220 U.N. Security Council resolutions about this Jewish state, primarily on the ‘Palestine Question’, since 1948."- Plum
From my AO3 fic entitled "From Angry Zionists to International Popstars: Meet the Mess Discusses the Gaza War"
"Since around January time, the US has negatively revised its assessment of Israel under Netanyahu. He does not behave as an ally, he has accrued a debilitating credibility deficit over the years on a multitude of issues, and he has intentionally failed to come up with a plan for postwar Gaza - to the point where he is now seriously suspected in Washington of prolonging the war for his own political survival antics. The current showdown over the security council resolution widens the rift to the point that it is impossible to see how the trajectory will change as long as Netanyahu is in power.
At the moment, the US has three points of disagreement with Israel regarding the details of the prosecution of the war: the notion that Israel is impeding humanitarian aid; the number of civilian non-combatant deaths; and a possible military invasion of Rafah, on the southern tip of Gaza. These differences could have been resolved had Netanyahu and Biden had a working, honest and good-faith relationship. They do not. In fact, Netanyahu has a track record of confrontations and frequent spats with US administrations, from George HW Bush through to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and now Biden. His -unsuccessful, it must be added -meddling in US politics is also a familiar trait of his since the 1990s.
The current state of relations is close to an inflection point, and could go in one of two directions: either Netanyahu is ousted or leaves or loses an election, or the US will be convinced that the bilateral ecosystem has faltered and warrants a major reassessment of relations. Under Netanyahu, Israel has reached the point at which its very value as an ally is being questioned. It took the US some time, but it finally seems to realise a simple fact: Israel may be an ally, but Netanyahu most certainly is not."
What this article doesn't explicitly state, though the implication is fairly obvious, is that there is at least one US President Netanyahu seems to have had a pretty good relationship with: Donald Trump. And one possible way out of the deterioration of US/Israel relations without him changing course or losing power- the departure of Joe Biden and the reelection of Donald Trump.
But sure, keep telling me how voting out Biden to protest the war in Gaza makes perfect sense, as opposed to what it actually is, which is throwing Bibi his only remaining political life line.
🇵🇸🇮🇱🇺🇳 THE TEN COUNTRIES THAT OPPOSED THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA
The United Nations today approved a resolution calling for an immediate Humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
In that vote, 153 countries voted in favor of the resolution, while 10 countries opposed it and another 23 abstained from voting.
Here are the ten countries that voted against a ceasefire in Israel's genocidal war of aggression on the Palestinian population living in the Gaza Strip: