• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Man Biden just really doesn’t fucking want to win this election does he?

    Is he hoping the whole Palestine thing will blow over if the Palestinians are all, you know, are dead?

    Like we can’t afford and won’t survive Trump again. He needs to get his shit together on this.

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      8 months ago

      When both sides support genocide I don’t think it deserves to survive.

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      8 months ago

      Old men make bad weathermen.

      You would think life experience would make them better at reading the clouds, but it seems to just further implant them in their ingrained beliefs, probably because they are usually surrounded by peers of the same age. Biden is lucky he was forced to work with some of his youngers, otherwise he would be blundering through this worse than he is.

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    8 months ago

    It was already meaningless. But this is what Israel demanded, so Biden was always going to agree to it.

    Sanctions matter when they’re applied to those in power, or if you don’t care about civilians an entire geographic area…

    Israel is about to isolate all of Palestine from international banking btw. They said they wouldn’t if these meaningless sanctions weren’t cancelled, but they know there’s no repercussions from going back on their word when they own both our political parties.

    The Palestinian economy is based on the Israeli currency, the shekel, making it reliant on ties to Israel and its financial dealings with the rest of the world must go through the Bank of Israel and Israeli banks.

    Earlier this month, the far-right minister Smotrich threatened to paralyse the Palestinian Authority’s economy in response to the United States imposing sanctions on four West Bank extremist settlers accused of violence against Palestinians.

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-may-cut-off-palestinian-banks-global-banking-system-next-week