Opinion | Yahya Sinwar’s Death Can End This War
(New York Times, 2024-10-17)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/17/opinion/yahya-sinwar-dead-hamas-gaza.html
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“The death of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who was believed to be the mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, provides a new opening for the United States to meaningfully push for a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza and for the de-escalation of violence across the Middle East.” 🤦
I wouldn’t care about this article if its author were no “Matthew Duss”, who “was a foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders.”
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So funny watching the news outlets act like this war was about Hamas when it has been obvious to everyone else that it was about Israel wanting more land. Now they want to give some false hope before the election since Harris is polling so bad while saying she’ll always fund the genocide. You can’t mention Palestine around Kamala without her first having to say it.
The invasions, bombings, and genocide include a land grab component, but their impetus is loss of status by settler colonist ethnic supremacists. The Zionist settlers demand the reestablishment of their sense of utter superiority, which has included:
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The return of all hostages with no number of dead Palestinian children being too high a cost.
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The reestablishment of “security” through subjugation and defeat of all Palestinians, but particularly those in ghettis that fight back.
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Defense and celebration of a Zionist rapist of Palestinian prisoners.
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Mass destruction of civilians in Lebanon to create Lebensraum for intimidated settlers to return to the North.
The entire settler colony has always been about genocide of the indigenous population, it was just previously doing so through an apartheid system of division, oppression, and forced relocation. Its very founders spoke openly of the necessity of displacing and making separate the non-Zionist population. Its population has demanded blood from the beginning and none of its major protests have been in opposition to the genocide. Quite the opposite.
That’s why I still cringe when I see the video of Biden proudly saying that he’s a Zionist. Either her knew what he was supporting or his mental decline started 20 years ago.
Biden has known very well what he’s been supporting, same as when he brought a bunch of hucksters into the Senate to manufacture consent for the War on Iraq, same as his long history of courting segregationists and serving the interests of credit card companies and banks (Delaware’s specialty).
Though his brains are tapioca he’s running on decades of autopilot and the staff he curated.
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