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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • It shocks me that people really think Biden is cheering this on.

    Probably because Biden’s support of Israel is completely unconditional and not contingent in any way on their conduct. Yeah he may disapprove of their conduct, but this won’t affect material American support at all - that would be antisimetic or whatever. Because of this Biden’s tacit disapproval doesn’t matter. It can be ignored which is what Netanyahu has been doing. Stop sending arms and Israel’s government’s dreams of conquest will collapse within a week, probably along with this government. But that’s unspeakable, apparently, and the Israeli lobby in the US needs to keep it that way.

    Now a government is about to take power that won’t offer any disapproval and could probably be talked into direct military action in the region. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see American aircraft bombing Gaza and the West Bank within 6 months. Embroiling the US even deeper into this is in Netanyahu’s interest and the trump government won’t mind going along .






  • Flip-flopping hasn’t been a real thing in politics since Trump came down the escalator. To make that model work the video host has to take on actual paying customers : advertisers. To see what that looks like and what it takes to actually be profitable serving and hosting videos for free with ads, just look at any free porn site. Intrusive ads everywhere, and an aggressive, never-ending arms race against ad blockers.