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Frankly it would be better to just be honest and for people to say what they mean.

I think it is pretty obvious that all these attempts to steelman the refusal to hold Israel accountable in 2023-2024 are ipso facto also preemptive arguments for not doing so in 2029 and it is strange how people are being coy about that

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 6m

we should probably raise our bar though and go further in saying that decades of virtually bipartisan unconditional unyielding support for israel has done the exact opposite of what US/Western liberalism claims to want in advancing two states, regional peace, etcetera.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 7m

OK, a bit confusing as it was in reply to me. Anyway, it does please me that even in these couched attempts to steelman Biden's refusal to enforce existing US law and his own red lines there is the implicit recognition that this was amoral, didn't work, and the next POTUS shouldn't do it. I agree!

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11m

? what is this in response to

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 13m

frankly maybe a damning case of illiteracy

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15m

yea it's actually kind of odd that people on here are using an instance in which biden threatened to do something he never intended to do as a defense

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 18m

I have an answer but a lot of people don't like it

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 20m

My suggestion though is perhaps that we actually extend less charitable thinking to the people who were in power who have apologized for nothing and insist they'd do it all over again than random people

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 25m

Admitting a mistake is nice when it is about something like voting the wrong way but when you were the most powerful people in the room in the most powerful country and the evidence overwhelmingly points to indifference at best and malice at worst on civilian life it's not a mistake sorry.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 32m

One does wonder why they weren't real

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 34m

How about accountability for the people who actually overawe the policy that you concede was amoral? Perhaps a commitment should be made by all candidates to never hire Blinken, McGurk, Sullivan, Finer, Power etcetera again.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 37m

Tbc people can make whatever argument they like about voting not voting etc but it seems like a lot of effort is being made to just obscure that Biden personally believed in everything he was doing? It's somewhat odd. Not like he's come out and expressed anything about how Israel is bad since 2025.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 40m

Even more than this, what exactly justifies the fact that the Biden administration greenlit a $600M sale in November after the election and an $8B sale on January 4th 2025? It seems they were just pro Israel.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 41m

Didn't sanction Israeli ministers, didn't ban trade with settlements (or even restore pre-Trump labeling of goods to the accurate designations), didn't reopen the PLO consulate, defunded UNRWA based on unverified Israeli claims, vetoed a half dozen UNSCR, begged the UK not to suspend arms exports.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 47m

Beyond this, it's hard to reconcile the claim that Biden was trying his best on the issue with more damning items like the fact that he didn't reverse the Pompeo doctrine until Feb 2024, didn't overturn recognition of Jerusalem and Golan as Israeli territory, didn't recognize Palestine, etc.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 50m

So even by his own self declared goals it seems he demonstrably failed at doing the bare minimum and this is without litigating whether or not he violated US arms transfer law, which he unequivocally did, as VP Harris' own Natsec Advisor later admitted.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 52m

I mean the thing is is that Biden actually did, apparently spontaneously, declare a red line (over Rafah) which he then did not actually enforce. And then he did it again in October 2024 with a 30-day deadline to Israel w/ a threat of no more aid and then he greenlit a 600M sale and an 8B sale.

wwnorton.com

Crossing the Red Line

A powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza, from an award-winning foreign affairs journalist., Crossing the Red Line, Biden, His Advisors, and Israe...

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Hakeem Jeffries' recent (albeit minimal) public rhetorical shift to the left on Israel-Palestine is in part fueled by the outreach he has conducted in order to secure the support of the crop of new left wing Democrats slated to join the House next year.

washingtonsun.com

How Hakeem Jeffries Is Courting the Left

House Democratic leaders are trying to connect with a group of progressive candidates who have refused to support Hakeem Jeffries’ speaker bid, sources told The Washington Sun.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

It will be increasingly difficult for the AIPAC-backed pro Israel stalwart to ignore his party base and caucus alike, especially given that the Block The Bombs Act will soon reach 100 cosponsors. BTB calls for a statutory ban on the transfer of bombs, tank shells, mortars and JDAMs to Israel.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Jeffries recently hinted that he's open to ending taxpayer funded military assistance to Israel even though he, for whatever reason, voted to maintain it. More broadly he is facing a caucus that's going to have at least 5 separate bills proposed by 2027 to actively punish Israel to varying degrees.

$The Washington Sun Jeffries has also signaled some movement on major issues that divide progressives from the establishment. The longtime pro-Israel Democrat said that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East "must change" after a divisive vote over aid to Israel fractured his caucus this summer. In a letter to colleagues, Jeffries argued that Israel "is capable of paying for its own sophisticated weapons" and future security agreements should 'be structured consistently with defense agreements that exist with our other Western allies and strictly adhere to our human rights laws and values." He voted against the amendment aimed at cutting off U.S. aid to Israel.$

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Colorado’s Melat Kiros, New York’s Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez, New Jersey’s Adam Hamawy, Pennsylvania’s Chris Rabb and Michigan’s Donavan McKinney have all either declined to support Jeffries or have indicated that they will have to discuss certain issues with him before doing so.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

washingtonsun.com

How Hakeem Jeffries Is Courting the Left

House Democratic leaders are trying to connect with a group of progressive candidates who have refused to support Hakeem Jeffries’ speaker bid, sources told The Washington Sun.

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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 1h

Latin American leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year all invoked sovereignty—but each defined it differently in dealing with Washington, leaving the region unable to speak with one voice, @perez1oj.bsky.social writes.

wpr.pub

At the U.N., Latin America Agreed Only When It Cost Nothing

If the region remains unable to speak with one voice, its nations are destined to be items on powerful actors’ agendas.

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maria_from_ga @mariafromga.bsky.social · 1h

Islamophobia and whiteness is a potent toxic mix bc imagine if any Latino Dem did this to a white Democratic candidate who supported Trump ethnic-cleasning immigration policies (more popular than the Israeli Government) Utter madness this shit is accepted

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 2h

As I said elsewhere I of course look forward to everyone actually advocating for an emphatically distinct policy suite next time rather than just reheating the same arguments over and over. Maybe this time it'll actually happen? I certainly hope so but I think one can see why I'm skeptical.

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 10h

Im sure it is very easy to, it any given time, to argue that it is the wrong time to cut off israel. Im sure you can keep making that argument week after week, month after month, but then you rub your eyes and its been three years and gaza and southern Lebanon look like this. Was it the lesser evil?

Satellite images of demolished villages in Lebanon

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Andrew Robbins @robbinsa.me · 3h

even nessel is on the train at this point mcmorrow end this man's career please

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

Wow what a relief I guess that means Noah will be battered and punished for this in his next primary by Dem leadership in the state

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 3h

The new West Bank policy if the “centrist” Gadi Eisenkot beats Netanyahu next month in the Israeli elections: ❌ Palestinian state ❌ Binational state ❌ Remove settlers / settlements ✅ Expand illegal settlements ✅ Legalize illegal settler outposts ✅ Demolish more Palestinian homes

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on a future diplomatic agreement, the party said: "The establishment of a Palestinian state is not on the agenda as far as we are concerned. We have no plan to evacuate communities as part of a diplomatic arrangement."

On sovereignty: "Yashar! opposes moves that would endanger the Jewish majority in the State of Israel, something that would lead to a binational state. Israel has no interest in assuming responsibility for the civilian lives of some 2 million
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The party said it would strengthen existing communities and promote legal construction, while examining the legalization of unauthorized outposts on a case-by-case basis. It also supports enforcement against illegal Palestinian construction in Area
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I unfortunately can not help but recall how much vitriol and bile Uncommitted received and note how little of the same is being dished out for those who clearly want Abdul El Sayed to lose— including this Democratic state representative

jewishinsider.com

Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed

Noah Arbit, a rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan’s state Legislature, has been a vocal critic of Abdul El-Sayed, a fellow Democrat whose Senate campaign in the key battleground state has exposed deep ...

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Interestingly the movement in question was confined to the primary and the individual in question here is explicitly saying that the Democratic nominee for the general wants to "purge" Jews out of public life. Seems a bit different.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I guess it would be nice if people acknowledged what actually existing pro Israel liberalism in the US is today? It doesn't seem very compatible with wanting Democrats to win. Weird.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

A very interesting admission: Abdul won't recognize the right of Noah's bugbear emotional support state to possess an exclusionary legal and political character to the detriment of 50% of the people under its control, therefore Abdul is a bigot. Fascinating!

He said it had been "framed by the understanding that minority groups are only safe under conditions of democracy, freedom and the rule of law, and also how that understanding really led to my empathy for Palestinians and their dispossession in 1948Ạạwhich had led him to believe that "the best way to right that is a two-state solutionẠạ
It was challenging to find common ground, he saidiạI think it's very difficult because he won't even commit to a two-state solution, where one of those two states is Jewish, Arbit explained. "We have fundamentally different positions on thatiẠại

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

One wonders if anyone on here will call Noah Arbit a single-issue pro-Israel voter? Or perhaps it is the case that some just think it's more understandable to hold the party at gunpoint when you're not an Arab.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

jewishinsider.com

Rising Jewish Democrat in Michigan won’t endorse El-Sayed

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 11h

This is a good reminder not to run Shapiro if you don’t want to answer ads about Ellen Greenberg

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Yep. Will certainly be interesting to say the least if in 2028 people like this still do this! I wonder what the conclusion might be.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

I guess Israel just doesn't want that enough?

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

There is an easy way to solve the issue of non recognition and Saudi has already outlined it.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

* FRANCE'S MACRON: IF THE BRITISH PM WANTS BRITAIN TO RETURN TO THE EU THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT NEWS AND A GOOD DECISION @reuters.com

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026

Despite Israel's bombastic announcement that it will illegally close the British consulate in occupied East Jerusalem, the consulate is still open as of today and the Union Jack still flies over the building. Middle East Eye reports that the UK is considering defying Israel's order to close.

middleeasteye.net

Could Britain defy Israel’s order to shut down its East Jerusalem consulate?

Israel announced the closure of the diplomatic mission as part of retaliatory measures following British foreign secretary Ed Miliband’s decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

Makes you wonder about the uhderlying preference for sure

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6h

Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm

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