The US: “well, Israel rejected another reasonable ceasefire proposal in favor of continuing to blow up innocents… guess we’ll have no choice but to offer them another go at it!
Oh yeah Bibi, here’s your missiles. Don’t use them to blow up civilians! wink”
I think the hardest part of all these is that people are looking for simple answers in a situation that is very, VERY complex.
It’s so tempting and appealing to say “if x would happen this would stop”. No, it wouldn’t. It would change but would not stop.
I would argue that these talks, from what I’ve heard, are being held in good faith but with bad-faith actors on either side. It’s impossible to reach a deal when both sides are diametrically opposed to the others existence.
I’m by no means saying the US is an angel here - I mean, look at the hundreds of “peace treaties” we’ve negotiated with banana republics and dictators throughout time. But this is a lose-lose-lose and they’re desperately trying for any kind of a win. I don’t fault them for that, for once.
Ok.
If the peace talks weren’t happening at all, would the situation be any different? This is at least an attempt. The bigger issue? That Hamas has every belief that the US is not impartial, for obvious reasons, meanwhile Netanyahu is also acting in bad faith and changing terms randomly.
The argument that “the war continues during peace talks” is objectively true, but misses the point of how peace talks work in any circumstance, much less one as muddy as this.
I’m for Gaza's independence and have been for a long time, most likely before many people commenting on similar threads like this have known it existed. But to claim that these talks are nothing more than a red herring is disingenuous at best.
Israel doesn’t need any excuse to continue their aggression, as it has been doing off and on for the better part of a century. Anthony Blinken isn’t going to magically solve a longstanding international crisis and get to diametrically opposed parties to agree on a treaty more than he’s going to have them agree on where to go to dinner.
Also we can get into the whole “Netanyahu is funding Hamas secretly” argument but that’s for another time.
Because the people who buy them have it and BMW can get more out of them. The real problem is that they’ll buy it, and other manufacturers will see “hey, it’s a successful model and additional revenue generation!”
Flash forward to Russia “they’re not sending their best” comments
They don’t, Rutherford just likes the acoustic nature of it.
Impeach our guy for actual acts he did? Fuck you, well just SAY your guy did stuff.
Check and MATE.
I didn’t notice the tiny backpack and it reminds me of the one I just bought for my toddler to go to daycare with only instead of false military masculinity, his is a rocket ship which is way cooler.
That is the tiniest mic sign ever.
Looks so weird.
Typically the party appoints someone through their own nominating process. There is a way of doing that but saying “we just don’t like this guy no more” isn’t really an acceptable one.
But he didn’t lose, remember? He’s still here trying to fight the good fight!
(I need to go wash my phone after typing that…)
Look, he DID see combat.
In pictures.
In the articles he wrote in his office securely in the middle of the base.
Also that’s a weird song to play at a rally. A really weird choice.
Not to mention that neurodivergence in girls and women is severely underdiagnosed due to differences In manifestation combined with hegemonic standardizations and diagnostic norms.
Female-bodied people show different symptoms and may be more commonly dismissed as “quirky behavior”.
So your assumptions that one is tested and the other wasn’t may, in fact, be just as “gross and harmful” as this user accuses someone else to be.
According to the Guard you have to have 3 years time-in-service to retire as that rank. He chose to retire as an E-8
News: “If Hamas is nearly defeated, and you know how to end the war, does that mean you’ll stop killing innocent Palestinians?”
Bibi: “actually quite the opposite; that just means we can build more settlements on the land we bombed into oblivion while displacing more and repeating a vicious cycle!”
News: “ah, good strategy! Happy to hear of your good work.”
I can’t.
I love HEB’s fish market sometimes - they have a higher-end specialty store and they sell some wild shit.
That they didn’t have a backup route is baffling. They’ve been testing the levels for months and they had to have known they weren’t going to be at safe levels in time. I commend the ecological work to clean the river but you shouldn’t punish these athletes because your waterway is gross.
It’s the same energy of evangelicalism has fuck all to do with the teachings of Christ. They’re all dog whistles.