Israeli officials suggested that the increased military aid was part of a deal to get Netanyahu to agree to the Gaza ceasefire deal. Trump’s envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has said he’s pushing for the full implementation of the agreement, but the ceasefire is very fragile as Netanyahu doesn’t want to implement the second phase.

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    Personal attacks aside, yes it is the fault of voters for Trump getting into office. That’s how elections work.

    Democrats wouldn’t stop the war. Republicans wouldn’t stop the war. It was irrelevant to the choice of who to elect.

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      How elections work is that political parties work to earn votes of the base they want to represent.

      It’s wild how moronic dipshits like you who talk down to others about “hOw ElEctIOnS WoRk” never hold political parties responsible for the choices they made about how they campaign and why, and the policies they follow, and instead blame random nobodies asked to tick a box every 4 fucking years.

      Hey, dipshit, who forced Democrats to literally commit themselves to genocide? This isn’t a minor quibble over tax policy, like 5 vs 10% tax rate, this lis* literal genocide*, mass murder of an ethnic people directly supported by Biden and the Democrats. They were told for a year by their own base this was not going to win them votes, and they ignored it. Your response is to literally claim we just needed to factor in literal fucking genocide as a given. You are a monstrously disgusting piece of shit. The perfect embodiment of the racist liberal. Brown people do not matter to you for anything except as a performative cudgel to vote shame people over the Democratic parties policy and campaign choices, something no one else made them do. Rather than hold them responsible, your dumb fucking ass is still online doing the same tired bullshit of insisting it’s everyone elses fault except the people who have actual fucking power and actual decision making capacity to change shit.

      Here’s how democracy works dumbass. A political party puts forward a set of policies about issues x, y and z. Voters express their preferences and concerns about them and other issues. A party then has 2 options: change policy and campaigning in response to those concerns, or articulate why their policies would be better.

      So you tell me, Mr Elections Understander, what happens when voters express for over a year they don’t like a central policy that has dominated the news, but the party tells them to fuck off repeatedly? Is that a good strategy for an election to win votes, to tell people concerned about literal genocide to shut up because “I’m speaking”? Is it a good strategy to tell voters they need to just accept genocide will happen, that they need to factor it in like it’s 2% fucking inflation?

      But sure, you hitch your wagon to the Democrats didn’t have to do anything differently. It’s everyone elses fault they committed themselves to genocide. It’s everyone elses fault that something that literally every competent campaign manager would have told you, that ignoring and overriding your own base on issues they care about, whilst spending the entire campaign trying to appeal to people who hate you with “but we can be racist and do genocide too!!!” could be a losing strategy.

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          Funny how the policy of unconditional support of Israel which both parties have held since the end of WW2 suddenly becomes an issue when it could hurt a democratic candidate. It’s a manufactured outrage and suckers fell for it. Palestinians have been under a slow genocide for years and none of you even knew or cared.

          Oh my God, shut the fuck up you disgusting cretin. The absurd lengths you’ll go to do apologia for genocide and to avoid blaming people in power who actually set policy and campaign priorities. The absurd reach you have to do to demand other people shouldn’t care about something.

          You’re a racist piece of shit who only cares about any of the groups you mentioned as a cudgel to insist other people can’t or shouldn’t care, at the same time as you present yourself as some realist pragmatist who is the only real defender of these people. It’s absurd and a horrific mentality that you inexplicably refuse to hold people in power accountable for their own policies, and insist the only option is to arbitrarily and randomly carve out those who you deem acceptable targets, only to then blame them anyway if/when you lose an election from bleeding support.

          You could care less about immigrants being put into concentration camps by the US, trans kids being tortured, or women being forced to carry their rapists baby. You are so blinded by the single issue the propaganda you inhale has told you to care about, you don’t think about the suffering your ignorant choices cause.

          In your attempt to say I shouldn’t care about Palestinians, you already have given away the game. Who’s to say you won’t scold people in 4 years for caring about trans people when Democrats help pass anti-trans legislation and potentially lose another election bleeding their base of support? Democrats have already been signing onto shitting on immigrants, so surely next election it’s already decided that it’s gonna be “Oh so you let their immigration policy stop you voting for them!!???” If/when they lose again.