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["fierce opposition"? Don't bet on it.]

By TIA GOLDENBERG and SAM MEDNICK
Updated 5:25 AM EDT, May 5, 2025

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel approved plans on Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the territory for an unspecified amount of time, two Israeli officials said, in a move that if implemented would vastly expand Israel’s operations in the Palestinian territory and likely bring fierce international opposition.

Israeli Cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, hours after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers.

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world -3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This is so myopic.

  • Don't blame the voters for not choosing the obviously better and more probable choice that would lead to protections for Palestinians than the guaranteed binary alternative outcome? Okay.

  • Ignore the fact that much of the electorate is completely fucking ignorant and apathetic and duped by literally billions of dollars of misinformation flooding their media, both domestically but also including Israeli and Russian operations spreading disinformation? (something these Uncommitted voters became susceptible too in the boTh SiDes rhetoric, ind you)

I'm Pro-Palestinian. I'm Pro-Civilian. But if these couch-sitters really gave a fuck beyond empty moral grandstanding, then they should've focused on helping to inform their fellow voters why it's important to help Gaza. After all, you want candidates to respect the will of the voters but ignore the ultimate reality that the electorate was clearly split on the issue just the same and made no attempt to influence the electorate? Put another way: instead of protesting the DNC convention, maybe you guys should've started protesting at church parking lots around the country and showing the horrors of Palestine, undercutting the media narrative? That would've been much more fruitful.

Because you're lying to yourself if you think Harris would somehow be worse or equally unreachable like Trump.

Leaving aside the fact that you completely further enabled (a) a loss of LGBTQ+ rights in America, (b) Women's rights by abortion access, (c) Climate change, and finally (d) became complicit in enabling Russia's attempted genocide in Ukraine all the same. So please, step off the soapbox.