The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...
This is also going to create some really dark and quite bad tendencies among an entire cohort who are scrolling through an algorithm that shows them unspeakable horror and then, like, cynical reactionaries to literal Nazis decrying that horror but with zero context of who these people are.
What is there in humans’ psyche that allows/encourages them to not see, or to unsee, atrocities that are occurring right in front of them? Are they afraid of repercussions that they think might befall them if they speak out, or are they programmed to genuinely not care?
This is all at the Evil bequest of the Israel right wing government. Looking through history the number of states that have used starvation as a toon to force people to leave has been done many times.
Well, @chrishayes.bsky.social isn't it your job to inform the public of what's going on in the Gaza genocide? Rather than leave it unexplained and just out there for others to fill in the blanks. Tell us what's really going on. Show us!
If you suppress the voices of the Brad Landers of the world, you’re going to leave voices like Tucker Carlson as the ones people are listening to on this. It’s grim as hell.
I’m happy to give Tucker Carlson a platform on this. He is persuading segments of the Republican base to be better people. Evangelicals are starting to get restive, and that is the key group propping up Israel at this point.
Having college kids occupy libraries would detract from that, while also validating what Trump is doing to our universities. Having Trump attack colleges for allowing kids to protest Gaza has not been helpful to them while Israel is openly starving Palestinian civilians and killing US Citizens.
I am not sure that any protest ever "detracts" from anything. It's purpose is to do the opposite is it not? Call more attention to the problem? I disagree that ANYTHING can validate violations of the constitutions amendments. Can it? When do you see suppression of speech to be valid??
Protests are a complex thing. I very much supported the Gaza protests last year, but the net result was the near rupture of the Democratic coalition while also sparking a backlash on the right. Despite there being some positive movement on public opinion, they needed to be shut down, and were.
I again supported protests in May, and this was the result. I am not convinced we achieved any positive benefit from any of this. Meanwhile, things have gotten bad enough that the right is starting to recoil on their own. Why do we need to bring attention to it? Likely we would distract them.
There may be a protest that could work, but I do not think it is in the form we have seen thus far. Maybe something different will work, but it’s hard to control otherwise well meaning activists.
Do you mean control? Protest is to challenge the control isn't it? Even peaceful protest intends to disrupt, to get a response and that is always going to be unpredictable and not controlled. Curious what you think peaceful protest is about? Process? Purpose? Products?
Maybe not. But what is hoped to be gained is often only appreciated in theory and retrospect. Think Malcolm X and MLK which really made the changes? Or did the attention (pos and neg) do the heavy lifting? No one really knows just theories--- and results.
Yes, results is the important thing. But what results? There are many possible results, including that protests fail. There is a reason doctors take a Hippocratic oath. Sometimes an intervention hurts more than it helps.
There are many other factors in play which I will not discuss because this conversation is being monitored. If people want to help Gaza, a good way is to go protest Trump’s Epstein ties this weekend. Damaging Trump is a fantastic way to help Gaza, even if it doesn’t feel like it.
We don't all take the oath anymore FYI. UVA dropped it decades ago UofMich we took it with all others in the audience renewing theirs. First do no harm is what you are speaking to. But... as Ghandi and MLK proved harm may not be avoidable. Break it to fix it doctrine of protest. No?
The problem is that Tucker isn’t pushing them to be better people, he’s pushing them to channel their disgust at Israel’s actions into base antisemitism.
That may be why he is doing it, but that is not what his argument is. He is making a fairly robust defense of IHL, accusing Israel of war crimes, and asking for it to be treated like any other country. He also thinks we should not support them militarily, remain neutral, etc.
Importantly, he is being effective at persuading large parts of the right that what is happening in Israel is wrong. As long as Israel is a wedge issue for Dems and unites Republicans it just is extremely difficult to make progress. There needs to be opposition from the right.
Liberal activists who want to make progress should be preparing to primary Dems who support Israel. There is every indication that Trump and Netanyahu will keep this going, and try to force Gazan’s into concentration camps. The politics are shifting in favor of justice and we need to prepare.
The DOJ is burning down and Chuck Rosenberg still has colleagues who have a high opinion of Todd Blanche 😂
when you defeat, disempower, and humiliate people asking for a better way, you empower those who will not ask
@jaketapper.bsky.social hey you pro murder bastard, can you talk about this? Or still mourning your book sales?
that it should fall to brad landers is indictment enough.
yeah but current dem leaders see the ppl being killed in gaza as “human shields” and absolve the ppl dropping the bombs of responsibility
"We have no choice but to shoot the hostages. They'll understand once in the afterlife."
Correct! Because they think you stupid enough to think that the people who believe they are defending the Gazans have what?... military bases to store their weapons in? An armed police force to protect their women and children? The strip is way overpopulated. WHERE? WHAT ARE THE ALTERNATIVES??
Thank you for continuing to express outrage regarding the appalling atrocities in Gaza. Too many of your colleagues apparently lack the courage to do so which makes them complicit in my view.
I love Chris but he needs a new production crew- or a new network! MSNBC is obsessed with dogging democrats with their "trying to examine and analyze" crap. No one wants to watch or be on a team that attacks it's own day in and day out. I CERTAINLY do not donate to politicians who are doing this.
Did something happen? Who is suppressing Brad Landers of the world?
Do you really imagine a lot of people give a damn what Tucker has to say at this point in time?
Um yeah, they demonstrably do.
Ah yes, the fact free zone. www.newsweek.com/tucker-carls...
Do you think Stephen Miller is any better? Is like Hitler manifested himself in the prominent leadership of Israel
forward.com/opinion/7575... (My thoughts in the Forward about why anyone who cares about Israel or the Jewish people should be speaking out on Gaza)
Thanks for writing this, Rabbi. I feel so spiritually lost these days, not because my own local Rabbis won't condemn Israel's current actions in Gaza (though they should)--but because they don't even grapple with what's happening there. At least not publicly in a way that has reached me.
Gaza has become Israel’s Warsaw Ghetto. Netanyahu is now up there with Stalin and Mao in using engineered famines to murder large numbers of powerless people
To my mother AnneDore: You taught to me respect the Star of David as an expression of love.
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Jewish actor, Mandy Patinkin, who played the part of Inigo Montoya in the movie The Princess Bride, has an important message for all Jews regarding Gaza. Listen. Nothing more important can be said. Look for YouTube or substack interview, Sunday morning show. He and his family are fantastic.
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Gaza now looks like Warsaw in 1945.
Americans, especially Jewish Americans, should be demanding that the people of Gaza are starving! Didn’t we once pledge “Never Again”? We’ll never is here, protest, call Congress. 2022243121 trump lost interest when he was told he couldn’t throw all Palestines off the land to build a golf course!
Obscene that we have closed our eyes to this. Where is our humanity?
They must think we’re gonna forget
Has Josh Shapiro condemned this stronglly enough or does he not even have to worry about getting asked about it.
Where are Christian leaders? This is ethnic cleansing; it is genocide. And American is complicit.
I've long thought that Israel is analogous to the the abused child who grows up to become an abuser themself
I just said that! And in the case the brutal Zionist terrorist turned (checks notes) prime minister Menachem Begin, it was literally true. He and his father were beaten by Polish nationalists when he was a child just after World War I.
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I am black in a jewish neighborhood (Temple is two blocks). NONE of our jewish neighbors are mentioning the people of Gaza. Caring about Gazans is called anti-semitism. My white and black friends are decrying ever supporting anything Jewish. "They took their lessons from Hitler" is the belief. SAD
How do you know this? The statistics are against you. First, most American Jews despise this Israeli government. In my neighborhood plenty of people are working to support relief efforts in Gaza, condemning the Israeli government, and supporting Israeli protesters. I don't think you know.
One also has to wonder whether Jews might not be entirely forthcoming to “neighbors” who are “decrying ever supporting anything Jewish.” That doesn’t strike me as a foundation prone to yielding honest dialogue over fraught and emotional subjects.
It's almost as if Jill Jacobs writes an article justifiably demanding a moral response from legacy organizations, who she says are hesitating out of fears of antisemitism, and along comes this person to demonstrate how it works.
Why as a Jew am I going to be open with people that attack me for who I am. They conflate who I am with the crimes of Bibi. I’m pro-Israel, but I believe in a real two state solution. I believe Israel had a right to defend itself. What Bibi is doing in Gaza is not in my name.
LOL I don't know how you relate to your neighbors but we are frank with one another. Very diverse group. Sort of close knit. I noted that others are decrying but even if I did they would not be upset just as I was not upset when they didn't donate to the Floyd fund. Our differences are our strength!
You are correct. I don't know. Does anyone know ALL of EVERYTHING different groups do? Do you? I form opinions based on what I do know. And if I am unaware that lack of visibility should be of concern too. Could you provide the polls of the American Jewish opinions? I would be interested to know.
Google is free. I am not judging other groups, except for Trump voters, BECAUSE THEY VOTED FOR TRUMP. I think what David said is spot on. We don't have to perform for you. Here's a picture of Israelis demanding an end to this government and the war
and one more thing: you said my feelings are like those of a person wrongly accused of racism? When someone accuses me of racism I sit with it and think about what I might have done to warrant the accusation, and you should sit with the possibility that prejudice is leading you astray.
I appreciate your stand very much!
I do all the time. Especially since I live with neighbors who call me out on my views frequently. But the presumption that I google what you do or know what you know is pretty biased and presumes a lot. Information is better accepted without snark. Just saying. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this. And as much as I despise Trump... I do not lump all Trump voters in one group really... just for ease with character limits. So why is Bibi still in charge if MOST Jewish people are against what he is doing? Is there an electoral college their or something? What happened?
I just explained to you how their electoral system works. Please see above. It's true.
were you able to find it? It's a parliamentary system and it's even worse.
You're conversing with a bot-troll, by the way.
Because Israel is a country. And he is in charge of that country. Trump has a 37% approval rating, and he is still president. That is not even taking into account that fact that American Jews are not Israelis.
"I form opinions based on what I do know." All the world's problems can be reliably traced back to this simple statement.
I work with a Jewish woman & was shocked when she said “Palestinians VOTED Hamas into power!” I was shocked, but that’s her take on it.
yes yes, they apparently did vote for hamas. but, they most certainly did NOT vote for bibi, who is architecture-in-chief of this current nightmare.
oops. architect 🙄
The population of Gaza who were under 18 at the last election is ... let's just say immense. (I also think genocide can't be justified by a vote that long ago regardless.)
i honestly don't think genocide can be justified for ANY reason. period, full stop. not even if calling it any other name. having watched israel's conflicts over the past half century, have to say, from my perspective (not jewish), they've been reliably & almost relentlessly aggressive.
i keep wondering when the leadership there will stop acting from fear (that's become hatred, on both sides), & realize they've become the very monsters they both fear & despise. asked a rabbi 40+ yrs ago if israelis ever considered this, and he was stunned; clearly he & no one else he knew ever had.
Re your first paragraph: yes. Period. Full stop. Hamas should be prosecuted for their crimes; systematic bombing and starvation into oblivion, otoh, is a greater crime, rather than justice.
"otoh..." i don't follow? of course hamas should also be prosecuted for their crimes. not clear who is doing the "systematic bombing..." in your statement. imho, as stated, that appears to have been israel's chosen role of offense for at least half a century.
I agree, a vote yesterday or a century ago... I cannot think of ANY justification for genocide.
Her meaning was they brought it on themselves, that’s what I got from it, anyway. :(
Truly amazing the way one vote two decades ago justifies for some folks killing and starving children today.
I agree but, how much can a 5 year old bring on himself? Why do we fall for "Israel has a right to defend itself " and it is nuclear state with endless weapons and money but no one else has a right to self defense? What are the alternatives for Palestinians? Insurgence always grows among people.
I just didn’t even know how to respond. I felt uncomfortable with the comment, tho. :(
I mean Israelis voted for 30 years of Netanjahu then 🙃
Tbh, if you’re friends with people who say shit like that, I kind of have a feeling that you’re not checking too hard if your Jewish neighbors are opposing what’s happening in Gaza (hardly a fringe belief in the US Jewish community).
Bluesky bots are now a thing.
Holocaust. Makes me beyond sick.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words so I guess I would ask people to compare this photo to the ones of people rescued from the concentration camps at the end of world war II.
thank you, rabbi. speaking out against policies & actions that go against the teachings of judaism is NOT anti-semitic. speaking out against the murder of innocents at schools, hospitals, refugee camps & aid stations providing food & water is NOT supporting hamas. palestinians are NOT the enemy.
Thank you for this article. What you’re hearing and seeing from Jewish leaders is no different from those who will not speak truth to Trump. And it’s especially awful when anti-Trump Jews can’t see that there’s both a parallel *and* an overlap.
The point you made on Ezra Klein's show has stuck with me: that if criticizing Israel is always equated with antisemitism there will wind up being a lot of people who say, "Okay, then I'm an antisemite." Super grim.
There is—horribly—the very real point that the Trump admin treats criticizing Israel as a *criminal offense*, and many are quiet to avoid being disappeared. It's an obscene tragedy, but it's not cowardice; it's true. My own largely Jewish family hates Netanyahu but is afraid to say anything.
Zionist Israel says that helping Palestinians is antisemitic, even though they are Semitic people, too. The hostile occupation isn't hiding its fascism anymore.
American politicians are facing Hobson's Choice where doing 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 is, in their minds, the least damaging thing to do... 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮! Obviously avoiding political suicide is more important to them than the destruction, starvation and death in Gaza. They should really be asked about that. 🤔
I accuse Tucker Carlson of being a very real mercenary of putin's asymmetrical psychological war against us.
Lander suppressed? What/who/how?
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WHOSE FAULT IS THAT CHRIS?!
What does Brad Lander think about Israel actions in Gaza though?
This is a good point. Oof
People lack the ability to think for themselves. To know when they're being scammed. proof, we can look at the amount of money siphoned off Americans through scams.. "Oh here is the crypto you asked for.".. like wtf is wrong with people, TRUMP isn't the "good guy", only cares about himself not you.
Case in point: this week Tucker talks to the podcaster who thinks Hitler got a raw deal about how pedophiles love to flee to Israel - wink wink
this is why any jew who seriously tries to tell me i’m safer as a jew, simply because israel exists, and no jew is safe without israel…whew buddy the lies!! the audacity!! the lack of awareness!!
I honestly think that its the policy of the Netanyahu government to make life more dangerous for Jews outside of Israel to both encourage Jewish migration there and to justify their atrocities. Why else would he actively support so many explicitly antisemitic parties around the world?
No shit. That is what Netanyahu has always been about. That's why the end-times Christians have supported him.
You, as a Jew, are safer as long as Israel exists.* *As long as you live in Israel and the same people who let the Israelis do whatever they want to the Palestinians stay in power forever, something which will surely never change in the face of Israel openly committing crimes against humanity.
Hard to tell what you’re saying. Living in Israel seems like a pretty unsafe thing , regardless of who you are.
The point is that Israelis don't actually care about rising antisemitism because that's a problem for the diaspora to deal with, and it works out in their favor because an antisemitic world encourages Jewish immigration to Israel, and imbues those immigrants with the same victimhood mentality.
(If you think this is really dumb and short-sighted on the part of the Israelis, that's because it is! What, exactly, is supposed to happen when all the Jews live in Israel is never actually spelled out, nor how a world with widespread antisemitism is in Israel's long-term interests.)
Their answer to that is ‘we have nukes’
Nukes don't do much against a trade embargo or sanctions - and they also are useless against another nuclear power that has ICBMs on the other side of the world.
And the people who let Israel do what it does aren’t just Americans. It’s people like al Sisi in Egypt or the King of Saudi Arabia
Sisi and - to a lesser extent - MBS both have the relationships with Israel that they have because of the US's long advocacy for and support of Israel. Cut that off, and a whole bunch of people will change their opinions very quickly.
The Khaleeji royal sheikhs & Arab Sunni military dictators find the Palestinian situations to be a nuisance. Perhaps with 1-1.5 or 2 exceptions, none of the rest want to see any democratic Arab countries, and certainly no successful ones; and definitely not a Palestinian one. They fear democracy.
You're absolutely right. They fear their own population more than almost everything. A free Palestine is a problem. They know their history and how Palestinians in the region have been for revolutions in those countries. The only acceptable free Palestine is a super repressive one.
It's infuriating and horrible. Btw, have these self-appointed champions of the Jewish people thought about the consequences of using antisemitism as a political cudgel against "leftists" and in service of Bibi's agenda?
I think it’s the point. Have you not heard about why they support Israel?
Zionism is equivalent to Fascism. The world learned too late.
Sorry, but these are just facts. The Diaspora has never supported Zionism by over 50% in all its history. Zionists hate them for it, too.
WHAT????how can that conversation even happen? But worries me more are the people listening to it!
I struggle with how little we actually learned! Defunding education and our weird uniqueness has left us uniquely dumb and cruel. The narrative is so pervasive around Jews=good, Muslims=bad that our very humanity is being eroded. It breaks my heart.
Tucker Carlson is actually the stereotype-invoking Israel critic that professional pro-Israel pundits like to say all left-wing pro-Palestinian types are.
Wonder why no girl has came forward about trump by now, we know has done bad things including pedophile acts, just doesn't make since. Got to be some out there, that would love to pay him back. He's such a scum
Would you, if you were in their shoes? After what happened to Epstein? I imagine his victims are simply too scared to speak up.
Can’t say “genocide” in America. Can’t say “concentration camps” in America. Can’t say “fascist” in America. Because: If you say genocide the fascists put you in concentration camps.
BUT BUT,THEY ARE ALL. PRO-LIFE!!!
Ugh
True! But almost all of journalism and MSNBC would rather air 24 hours of shows about Epstein rather than ONE hour about Afghans or Gaza. Your producers are guilty as hell on this count Chris. They just repeat everything already said that day. WATCH YOUR STATION ONE DAY THEN BREAK FROM THE PACK!
Or, and hear me out here, you leave people like me who were formerly supportive of Israel to conclude that any further support is an immoral act. And that the only acceptable action by the United States is to place the Big Red One between the IDF and the Palestinian children who are still alive.
This is my personal OPINION. Israeli gov't and Netanyahu in particular along with the IDF leaders have decided to emulate the final solution of the Nazis in regards to Gaza and Palestinians.
Dems baby! Fighting their left flank harder than their right opposition party since 2016
And then you have the US Government actively targeting and kidnapping people who dare speak out against the greatest crime against humanity of the 21st century.
It speaks volumes! I hear only faint outcry from Jewish peeps. One report said a jewish group wrote the list ICE worked from on campuses. It certainly explains the dirth of Jewish people who said anything about other students attacked on campuses. Recall Muslim attacks? Blacks? Indians? Mexican?
The fuck are you talking about? Jewish academics are some of the main people being targeted as “antisemites” for speaking out about this stuff.
^ This. As I wrote upthread, my own Jewish relatives are terrified to do or say anything, in part because conservative Dem party leaders are pro-Netanyahu, too (even if most of the party isn't). They could speak out about Trump disappearing people for opposing Bibi, but they won't.
I argued last year that Netanyahu's ulterior motive in Gaza wasn't even to destroy Gazans (as viciously as he does so), but to create a continuous, ongoing crisis with which to help the American right—and I still think this is accurate. bsky.app/profile/love...
^ @charlesgaba.com (curious if you agree!)
We should talk! I was Obama for Doctors and I also assisted with Hilliary care opinions. The working truth is very different than stats suggest! We forget the CARE in healthcare and focus almost solely on the financing of care. DANGEROUS!
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Interesting. I was just beginning to think Kushner made it financially an 'offer he could not refuse' to destroy Gaza and sell it to Trump and his "jews will not replace us" folk. Or maybe that was just a perk. But hating takes people a long way sometimes so maybe he just hates. IDK
As far as selling Gaza to Trump *and* groypers—I doubt Kushner feels he owes anything to the latter. He strikes me as too dense to grasp either the reality or the seriousness of young Republicans' antisemitism. Ten years ago, while G*mergate had pushed a core of extremists to very real bigotry, >
most Gen Z racism/sexism was largely a performative joke inspired by South Park and similar. But some casual observers, like this NeoGAF user as early as March 2017 (link), correctly saw a future in which bad actors would push a much larger chunk of young men into more serious hatred. >
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My cousin's Jewish cousins support Trump.... go figure!
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I know a lot of Jewish people who feel like they’re being targeted from both sides, from people on the left for not siding against the Israeli government loudly enough, and from the hard-right ultranationalist folk for being “Hamas sympathisers”.
Ouch! I got a close friend who that happened to. So many of our colleagues who we studied with and trained with and worked with are from so many different countries that perspectives are vastly different. EVERY ISSUE we can get trapped like that. Too awful!
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True dat..
Fuck off Chris. Israel isn’t turning Palestinians into lampshades like your culture. You’re just a neo-colonialist who’s turned Hamas into the noblest of savages so that you can crucify Jews for the sins of Christian colonialism. Stop murdering Jews. May you all reap what you sow.
And recently someone told me there weren't so many insane people on bluesky
Hey, bsky must've made it, now we're getting influence ops!
Too stupid to respond to, don't even know where to begin. Go take your medication
This one stands out, really. I give it days before he’s gone back to the Bad Place.
You're a zionist bigot. Jews dont deserve to be associated with you. Let's be honest.
Did you look at his posts? He’s just begging for attention and controversy. He’ll moon somebody next. Must be too dull for him on Xitter.
The Nazis are the people with swastikas who hate Jews. Your movement has devolved into domestic terrorism and is now murdering Jews on the street. Yall are evil. I’m not looking for anything — I just hate you racist, social justice posers.
My “movement” is being against genocide. What is happening in Gaza is extermination. I don’t give af what religion anybody is, this is a war waged by a megalomaniac sadist who doesn’t care who dies, and it would be barbaric to think he acts for all Jews everywhere.
I’m assuming you mean that remark for those who are starving innocent children by blocking food deliveries and shooting starving and incredibly desperate people who are pushing hard to just to get food for their families, right? Those people sitting in the gun turrets? THATS who you mean, right? No?
Rape isn’t resistance — and you Nazi scum celebrated/justified the slaughter and gang rape of Israeli women and children. You’re just a racist who’s scapegoating an American for the actions of a foreign country. It’s wild that yall still think you have an ounce of moral authority.
your username checks out. you ARE wearing that veil of ignorance.
Thank you! Dang! I’m telling ya, sometimes these people are just as batshit crazy as the MAGA. Just as full of calcified hatred, and unable to break into rational thought.
WTF? In no manner, shape or form did I “ celebrate” the death of any innocent person, regardless of their ethnicity, you POS! This discussion was about the current starvation of the residents of Gaza. Please tell me how letting innocent children starve in numbers far greater than 10/7 work for you?
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there WILL be consequences... it may take years, or decades... but you dont get away with murdering and starving people on that scale...
If only he cared www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
In The Guardian: “As starvation spreads, Israeli killings of civilians has increased. One person was killed by Israel every 12 minutes in July, making it one of the deadliest months of the Gaza war, an analysis of UN data revealed.” This is a Holocaust. Driven by race hatred & entitlement.
Starving dying children should be a deal breaker for ANY HUMAN
The food crisis is being engineered by Hamas and the "aid" agencies in order to save Hamas from defeat. It's the next logical step after using their own children as human shields. Starve your own population and then accuse your enemy of being inhuman.
Call it for what it is... GENOCIDE
Biden/Harris's ironclad support for Israel's extermination campaign in Palestine cost Democrats the election. They took a gamble on genocide and the entire world lost.
Why can't you just be honest and tell your followers whose brains are also breaking. They're paid by AIPAC and US "defense" contractors to make it seem invisible. When not outright lying about "what is happening" in not just Gaza but the whole of Palestine. It's GENOCIDE.
This country is racist as fuck. This is one of many constant reminders. Palestinians are seen as less than human by the powers that be, and always have been.
I am 69 yrs & black and I will tell you I don't agree that the country is "racist as fuck". It is only as racist as we allow it to be! LOTS of MAGA's I know are not racist. hey just tolerate racists & believe it doesn't impact them. Same for my lefty and black racist friends. DON'T TOLERATE IT!
if you’re willing to put racists into power, to make yourself more comfortable… That’s also a type of racism because it says you don’t care what happens to the people of other races, as long as you get what you want. It’s being willing to overlook their humanity and safety to achieve your own goals.
You are the only one on MSNBC who talks about Gaza! Thank you! The rest of the anchors just ignore Netanyahu's war crimes or speak about starving children in Sudan, but not Palestinian children who are starving every day! It's lamentable!
Most of the political class is compromised by their decades of support for Israel. That said, the silence has helped in some ways. Nobody is protesting it, but nobody is defending it either (aside from the random Brett Stephens). Sometimes people need to just see a thing without any filter.
Blame the insidious presence of Israelt/Israeli backing money in US politics. The same is true in the UK. Israel has long been given a pass because of the Shoah. Time to rethink that.
Let's be clear, it is not just the Republicans supporting Netanyahu. Plenty of leading Dems, including Schumer and Jeffries, have directly or i directly given them the green light. Netanyahu is clearly committing war crimes and we stand back and watch.
The new “Axis of Evil” seems to run from Washington to Jerusalem to Moscow.
“brain-breaking”? Are you really saying anything much different than anyone else about these crimes against humanity, Mr. Hayes? Call it genocide, acts of genocide, mass murder, ethnic cleansing…what you will—but say it, on your show, at the risk of your job…and of your professional affiliations.
Huckabee seems pretty hard hearted about Gaza until a church gets shelled. And the W Bank until a Christian is targeted. WWJD
American censorship runs on Omertà.
How can these politicians sleep knowing USA is helping Netanyahu starve people to death and when food is available the Israel forces are shooting the people when they try to access the food! What is the difference in gasing people or shooting people the end result is the same extermination!
It’s vile and disgusting. I am ashamed to be an American.
I've just had to make peace with most people are not good (care about others outside immediate circle is part of my def.) or smart- ( easily swayed by ridiculous propaganda that in essence killing/ hurting brow/black ppl is ok if perpetrator is police or Israel etc.)
* smart = not easily swayed by propaganda
It’s horrifying. Unfortunately, it’s now illegal to discuss the topic. Just ask the folks at Columbia University.
Meanwhile the US state department is acting like GHF is some massive success and to say otherwise or suggest that Israel deliberately targets civilians at these sites is conspiratorial.
Vote them ALL out. My God.
Glad your centrist self is finally seeing it.
It’s very frustrating to protest, write letters, help fund new candidates for office and still not be able to stop this genocide. Our Republican reps aren’t listening to 1/2 of their constituents. It’s a gross miscarriage of morality, rule of law and just plain old shitty people getting away w it.
Crimes against humanity
What pisses me off is that Israel is bombing ppl trying to get food & other previsions. To me that is genocide. They are trying to wipe out a whole population of Palestinians. Why won't anyone stop them? They are doing to Palestinians what Hitler did too them.
Americans r as bad as Russians.. Two evil empires.
And disgusting!
Sickening. Another Holocaust for nations to ignore.
It breaks my brain that no one really seems to care about the hostages. It’s very disheartening.
I TOTALLY AGREE! It breaks my heart that the Bebe and his peps placed revenge above getting their loved ones out alive! My 'safety' be damned I would have prioritized freeing my family! Still don't have a confirmation of how number of hostages were killed by Bebe and the IDF and their funders. SAD!
There are double digits of hostages left and 7 digits of other people being starved to death and slaughtered. Do you think that might play into it or nah 50 2,000,000 Can you point to the bigger number
If that’s your best response you’re really fucking pathetic.
I value each of those lives equally. You cannot say the same.
If you want to compare hostages to hostages, Israel is holding at least 3,500 without charge or trial including hundreds of children, thousands more with pretextual charges, & of those given charges, many are given a minutes long trial in front of a military judge. How often do they get talked about
What is their reaction to any of the horrible things going on? They are still voting for Trump nominees and negotiating a budget as if the GOP won’t rescission it later. Not a peep on the 100 horrible things that have happened today such as firing consumer safety or EPA deciding greenhouse gas is ok
* There is no master race. There is no master religion. There is no divine right to land. No religion is dead-letter-literally True! All religions are symbolically poetical metaphorical allegory True! * Do You Want The Truth? Alan Watts On Religion * www.youtube.com/watch?v=29jK...
To all you Anita Kamala leftists who didn’t vote for her; how’d that work out for you? Is Jill stein coming to help yet?
How did voting for a candidate who can't win primaries work out?
And how’s the rump and presidency working out so far?
It's horrible, but so is she.
I will never forgive anyone who didn’t vote for Kamala.
Yeah man voting for avowed ultraZionists who broke laws and alienated their base to let Netanyahu get away with even more than he expected, in return for shit on their faces and accusations of antisemitism, for a Calendar Fucking Year, definitely would have prevented this outcome.
I will never forgive anyone who didn’t vote for her.
Genocide by Netanyahu.
It is an engineered famine. It is a huge scale crime against humanity.
You mean like Yemen this entire time?
Yeah, and like Senegal and the Uyghurs.
They don't care about those
Why won’t middle eastern countries deal with this issue? Why are we responsible?
We pay for all of it, and if it wasn't for us none of this would happen.
The situation shows what a stranglehold AIPAC has on both parties. Citizens United must be destroyed.
Only if you believe American propaganda What did we do in Iraq in between the wars? DURING the fucking wars, for that matter
I feel the same about the reaction to what is happening in our own country…a MAGA terrorist shot two Democrats and their families, and had a whole list of others…and we just moved on
It's disgraceful. We used to be the leader of the free world because of our compassion and defense of humanity. Watching people starve while food is rotting in storage facilities is unbelievable.
The similarities between Gaza and WWII ghettos like Krakow are chilling: deprivation, dehumanisation, starvation, and systematic control by an occupying power. The collective punishment the State of Israel is imposing on Gaza’s trapped people can't be euphemistically justified as 'self-defence'.
2, 4, 6, 8 ISRAEL MUST INTEGRATE!
They just don’t care.Remember clumpy said once they’re all gone.There are some nice spots to build in.And he was looking into it.So yes.He supports genocide.the rest of Republicans fall in place because once again they are straight up cowards.And have showed how yellow they are with the child rapist
The far-left & far-right are on the same page when it comes to Gaza- neither one of them care about the Palestinians. (😏 Those white student activists will become conservatives when they get older).
It used to be the case (older -> conservative), but data is showing that his is breaking down for the younger generations who are staying progressive. There is hope…
It’s the whole world. No country is doing anything and I don’t understand why.
To many are or had been involved in colonial settler enterprises themselves. On top of them they are just soulless ghouls
US politician are, with a few exceptions, just going to support Israel as Israel kills or otherwise destroys two million people. Any pretense of "Western Civilization" will be impossible to defend after this.
That’s sadly true. But we’ve seen that the leftists will punish Dems no matter what Dems do. And they will reward Trump even though Trump encourages the slaughter. So Dems are avoiding this issue.
You’re a fucking moron.
All the World Leaders have failed humans. How is the horror justified? What is the reasoning? Why can't adults resolve conflict without killing other humans and destroying property. Why is anyone in the United Nations getting a pay check?
There is a horrifying parallel between Gaza and Vietnam in 1968. The Democratic mainstream supported both, and lost big as a result in both cases. Activists also thought they could rebuild the party, as they do now, in the 1970s and 80s. Look how that turned out.
Trump and Netanyahu are committing GENOCIDE. The world sees it and condemns it yet they keep committing crimes daily against the Palestinians and their starving children.
Israel is committing a genocide and deserves to be wiped off of the face of the earth for their actions. So does the US for supporting them. 🤷♂️
OR maybe the solution of "wiping off the face of the earth" is driving the genocides thus people need to rethink what they believe should happen when people are not to their liking OR even when they are terrible or evil. For too long the left has agreed to accepting that evil = my right to do evil.
Nah, destroy the genociders
Peace only works with the willing. Traitor tRUmp and the MAGA Nazis are not willing. For our country to be saved We The People must be willing. We have the 2nd Amendment.
Just as brain breaking was Genocide Joe setting the stage for this.
Fuck that bullshit.
Can you be more specific?
Anyone equating Biden with Trump is an idiot. Period. Full stop. And in large part to blame for Trump being elected.
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Perhaps Biden shouldn't have provided the weapons Israel needed for this genocide, if winning the election was so important.
How?
How is it just as brain breaking? I measured it very carefully.
No. How did Biden set the stage for this?
He did it for like a year whole running cover for israel and putting no pressure on them to stop? He knew israel and trump were colluding against him in the coming election and he eagerly made himself the idf's doormat anyway. He was willing to throw the election for genocide.
By saying "Israel has a right to defend itself" while they are committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. How do you not know this?
Along with most of the other western nations. Yes. There’s nothing special about Biden in this. How do YOU not know this?
There's nothing special about the guy who's in control of the most powerful arsenal in the history of humanity? Want to guess again?
He didn’t rein in Israel. There was no real effort to restrict the amount of weapons we give them. There was no accountability. So here we are, – the Dems lost, and the slaughter goes on.
The Dems didn't lose. www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
Sooner or later Democrats are going to have to come to terms with the fact that we voted for a dogshit president that turned out far worse than many of us feared.
Most Democrats knew that Trump was going to be a worse President 2nd time around.
How many Democrats did you poll?
Most Democrats thought the guy they held their nose for was at least going to send Trump and friends to super Gitmo for the treason. By just about every measure Biden failed and demoralized voters. He left Harris deeply behind, kneecapped her, and still maintains he was God’s gift to the party.
It wasn't on Democrats. At all. www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
Yup, perfectly legal cheating right out in the open - & no one seems to care.
More like no one gets this is the problem.
Well those Democrats should have voted for HRC in the first place. From the outside D’s seem to want a 100% perfect candidate (to their personal list) to bother to vote, while Rs seem to salivate at voting R regardless of what that candidate is or whether they stand for anything.
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From the inside, the party keeps sabotaging itself with unforced errors to the point that Democrats are bleeding support among core constituencies to please a couple rich bastards. Seems like what you guys are doing too from the outside and it looks like you’re going to get similar results.
Maybe how he lied and said he was trying to stop the war but it was discovered he didn't try at all: www.yahoo.com/news/biden-t...
Or maybe his comments about Israel itself? www.reuters.com/world/us/i-a...
You mean aside from sending Israel the weapons by making an end run around congress to do this? apnews.com/article/us-i...
Good point.
Do you think Congress would have objected? Israel aid is the only thing they do agree on.
Not the point here. The point here is to show that whether or not congress approved, Biden was going to do it anyway, he was going to send more weapons to Israel in the midst of a genocide, and he did.
all while they helped his opponent obviously not the main grievance here, but still fuckin weird
Netanyahu probably sees Biden like he sees Trump: a useful idiot to maintain his own power. The thing is, as bad as Biden was, he at least had a few scruples. Trump has none. None at all, and will give Netanyahu anything he wants with glee.
Trump, like his dead friend Epstein, is a sociopath.
i think it’s more about the glee than any scruples honestly
How is this any different from the rest of the Western World? Israel is still supported because 1) They have powerful friends in many countries 2) The world still sees them as Holocaust victims & can’t accept that they are doing to others what was done to the Jews (& the rest).
There's this new thing people have come up with "Two wrongs don't make a right." Targeting civilians is always wrong.
Well we agree on something.
The sky is blue?
Ah ah, no. This is about whether or not Joe Biden enabled them. I showed you that he has. That what Joe Biden did directly lead to how Trump now acts in defense of Israel.
Spot on.
Certainly Israel gets more income from what world markets afford them than from what the US gives them. Boycott Israel until they stop killing & starts medical and food supplies and rebuilds for the Palestinians and NOT for Trump and Kushner. Don't give anything to those giving to Israel either.
Maybe spreading the blame around helps inform but also it causes some to lose focus on what is happening. Israeli policy and actions and complacency regardless of who they got the weapons from is the problem in my view. What can we do about that? Stop funding anything that might end up in Israel?
I can understand why that would put some folks on the defensive, but intent here was to inform. Joe Biden's no longer president, and it's on Trump and his administration now, but it's important to remember who helped make it happen, and Biden did, and I provided support for that.
As did I. I wholeheartedly supported Biden (still would) and I KNEW HE WAS DOING THIS WHEN I DID! I am defending nothing. Not even my vote. I am saying that we need solutions not a blame finding that diffuses what Bibi is doing. Biden and my soror Kamala were as wrong as the day is long. Now what?
That wasn't the focus, though. Lisa wanted proof that Biden had helped enable the genocide in Gaza. I gave her that proof. Where we go from here is a large and complex problem to solve, because most of our government is also complicit in this genocide.
Let's not forget Biden's catch phrase "Israel has a right to defend itself" while Israel was murdering civilians indiscriminately. Every bombing run on civilians was a war crime. There's no way to sugarcoat this.
Israel is supposed to be a U.S. ally & there are powerful political forces in America supporting Israel - no other U.S. President would have acted significantly differently - except the one you have now who is looking to personally benefit from the destruction in Gaza.
Within hours he was in all of our living rooms with his breaking news telling us that he had vowed full support to Netanyahu financially and militarily; he has always been a Zionist, no doubt he had a big ole rager that night thinking of the hell he was about to bring down on innocent Palestinians.
I wrote Genocide Joe a letter in October 7 as he appeared in my living room promising to fund and arm the coming genocide…. I told him that was what he was doing but he would not be doing it in my name. I wrote multiple letters, made calls, I refused to be complicit. F*** Zionist Genocidal Joe.
You mean the Republicans, right, Chris?
@chrislhayes.bsky.social call it out for what it is: war crimes and crimes against humanity willfully committed and for all to see and witness. Clear case for the ICC.
The US government appears to enjoy harming and killing people- both foreign and domestic
It's heart breaking for me.
It just pierces right through the integrity barrier, grievously exposing our bone deep tolerance for extreme injustice depending on who's committing the injustice, and spills the blood of our supposed beliefs onto the floor for all to see...
Kushner wants seaside condos. Lush we will get seaside condos Chris. Whatever Kushner wants, Kushner gets via dumbsh:t!
It is bipartisan evil
I'm tired of all the official pronouncements from various agencies about how this "may be a violation", "may be considered genocide", "drifting toward genocide". Just call it what it is: genocide.
They all think Zohran Mamdani is more horrifying than starving children.
The cruelty is the point. We see it here in the United States.
If only someone with a network show could push them on this issue. Alas...
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This shit makes me weep. Have the last shreds of our humanity been stripped from us?
I keep looking for articles on what recent atrocities preceded these attacks, but there really havent’ been any. Merely the IDF bombing starving Palestinians. Very disturbing.
It is an engineered famine. It is a huge scale crime against humanity.
Divest from Israel. Now.
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Do you think you’ve covered this enough over the last 2 years, with a tone and stance appropriate to the horror and the US culpability? Something to ask yourself maybe.
The genocide, you say?
What reaction? I was thinking American politicians couldn’t even point to Gaza on a map. They sure tf aren’t saying anything abt it.
I can morally justify some collateral damage in a war started by Hamas. But- I cannot fathom what Israel is doing now. Is Hamas doing any fighting right now? Doesn’t israel have complete control of Gaza? Like- what’s the point here?
Mass starvation is the new way of saying genocide.
Trump will continue to drive genocide in Gaza so Jared can develop a Palestinian-free riviera resort with his $2 BB from his Saudi benefactors.
Rationalizing the evil in Gaza by blaming it on unreturned hostages is like the domestic abuser who screams righteously at his beaten, bruised & bloodied wife, “You made me do it!”
I almost blame America more than Israel. It's close.
What Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide! That is the only word strong enough to describe the constant bombing of the country, the total collapse of any food distribution, and the death, the constant death of innocent civilians! This is genocide, and America’s money is making it happen
You can not start with Israel is only defending itself no matter what, and not end here. There is no thought process. NO GOVERNMENT is always right.
Open starvation and genocide.
How can anyone allow people to starve? Only truly evil people do that to other people. For God’s sake, these poor people have been through enough. Feed them!!!
I agree, but it’s important to add that Israel isn’t “allowing” people to starve. They’re making it happen before our eyes. They dismantled & weaponized aid distribution. On purpose.
Your post is completely on point. Thank you so much for your reply.
I know you knew that. It’s hard to talk about this sometimes!
They all know they are complicit and they did it for the benjamins.
Yup - exactly
My brain broke over this a while ago. Brain broken. Heart broken
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Look, dude, you're on a 24/7 news channel in the USA. Your Bidenesque "whatever can I do" when you have a platform rings hollow.
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So called civilised nations
Just another day at the office for the DoD.
Imagine watching your children go through the pain of starving to death. It's abhorrent. Very ashamed by this WH and Congress, to say the least.
I will never understand it. It’s maddening and horrific.
Biden proudly saying that he is a zionist will go down in history the same as Hitler proudly being a Nazi. That goes for all zionists. If not here, the rest of the world views it the same.
Israelis and Nazis are the same. The Star of David will forever be looked upon the same as the swastika.
To be fair, anyone who supports Israel is a Nazi and Israel is full of Nazis.
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@timesofisrael.com @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Hitler's Hunger Plan = take out the word Hitler and replace it with Benjamin Netanyahu. Same plan, different era. The descendants of the WW2 victims are now the executors. www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/news/hitl...
Two religious clashes, one avoidable catastrophe. How much better off the world would be if people realized there is no magic man in the sky. Imagine there’s no heaven full stop Thanks John Lennon
This isn’t about religion. This a land grab by Israel, an ethnostate, using ethnic cleansing and genocide as a means to that end. People may use religion to convince themselves it’s something other than a land grab - but it is not. It’s a violent and illegal land grab using our tax dollars.
Yeah, an ethnostate that is Jewish and Sunni Islamic religion predominant in Gaza and the Jews feel entitled to it BECAUSE of THEIR religion. At its historical core it IS a clash of religions. The original Jewish landgrab was also about religion, but I agree they shouldn’t use our tax dollars.
While I agree with you that historically religion played a larger role - which is true for most of our conflicts - and a lot of our history is plugged into our cultural DNA, i think it does a disservice to the sheer greed and primitive rage that drives modern genocide.
100%. Well said.
The founders of Israel were mostly quite secular
That’s really a lot of bullshit: the secular Zionists worked to establish a safe haven where a religious expression of Judaism could freely exist. So the founders may have been secular to a degree, but their purpose was to make an enclave for the Jewish religion
And the founders of USA were mostly secular. How is that panning out in reality? Is it relevant to today?
It’s very relevant. Many secular forces back the worst evils in both countries. Yair Lapid, Elon Musk, &c.
Still not seeing your point. Good luck out there!
Thank you. I will need lots of luck explaining why the presence of prominent secular people and political parties supporting a war is evidence that the war cannot accurately be described as a religious war
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And soul destroying. I don’t know if my empathy will be intact when this ends. I want to see everyone allowing and apologizing for the slaughter to suffer horrendous consequences. I want any descendents to suffer, I want them to suffer for eternity which isn’t normal or healthy
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Shameful
‘Mass Starvation’ as if it’s a matter of opinion that needs to be sourced out
Israel is purposely doing the same thing to Gaza as the Nazis did to the Jews... and not one politician is standing up to say it is wrong. Much in the same manner that US politicians turned a blind eye in the 1930s. Pretty sad!
I 100% agree with those traumatizing pictures. My grandparents were in WW2 & I heard the stories. Saw the numbers on the arms of people I grew up with - who were not Jewish but still imprisoned in the concentration camps - and have a very real understanding. Israel is just as evil right now.
I’m posting this as the grandchild of ancestors who were on the wrong side of history. I grew up in Germany. We were very well educated on the Holocaust. I had patients that told me stories about it. Like you, I saw the tattoos. “Political enemies” and resistance were jailed too. Never in my life I
thought the world would let something like this happen again.
I disagree. Talib is my representative and she and several others have been screaming in the dark vacuum called the american moral conscience the whole time. Moreover, Bernie knows this is wrong and has said so. In the 1930's there were also many politicians pushing getting into WWII to stop Hitler.
You're welcome to disagree but it's such a minority of politicians speaking out, they are being ignored. Talk is cheap. There's no action! Other countries are guilty of it too. It's time for politicians to get off their asses & do something about it. People are dying for no reason other than hate.
Don't know but maybe people are dying because we wait for politicians. Maybe there is something we could do. With Obama we had internet warriors who just went around to small paper sites and informed and refuted misimpressions. Maybe that would help. Do Americans really want it to stop?
Very good point. But I think we will still need politicians to take a stand with action. Israel has done a very good job of preventing people from getting into Gaza to help - with Trump's cruel backing. I willingly stand up to fight against disinformation but we need officials to cut the red tape.
All is lost if we require they man up! Even the best of them are feckless in so many ways. We need to figure out HOW to use them effectively to get to where we need to be.
my city gathered signatures to create a ballot initiative that would force the local government to divest from orgs that support genocide regimes. Twice we got enough signatures , each time they banned it with lawyers crying “AntiSemitism” yea, it’s a problem
Where the F is @schumer.senate.gov and ALL of the repubs- OWNED & SERVING AIPAC I DON'T GIVE A ..S#!+ if Dem or Repub get these FOREIGN PLAYERS OUT OF OUR GOVT!!! www.opensecrets.org/industries/s...
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it's disgusting. unconscionable. egregious disgraceful. Every legislator should step down.
Well if they do not all die or leave how do you expect them to build Trump Towers there?
The weakness of Democrats is sickening, why are they not speaking out forcefully on this issue? They let Netanyahu and Trump commit these atrocities with no push back. And no, this isn’t because Dems are “Zionist”, take that racism and hatred and shove it. It’s because Dems are weak and feckless.
Absolutely heartbreaking 💔
They don't care about Muslims who aren't "oil rich". It's not hard to figure out.
41.6% of the population is overweight or obese.
And heartbreaking
I’ve heard not one word anywhere about Israel bombing Damascus.
Standing by silently will one day be our biggest shame. We also are sowing seeds of hate along with our indifference.
Listening to whoever the Israeli spokesperson was on NPR earlier today blaming Hamas was infuriating. Victim blaming at its worst...
What’s infuriating is how NPR has these genocidal nuts on and barely pushes back when they spew propaganda.
I think it was on BBC newshour not an NPR interview
They’re usually a bit better, but still, it happens all the time on both BBC and NPR.
What seems the easiest, showing empathy to a human caused suffering, has become a precious thing. Thanks for speaking on for those suffering.
I think the political ignorance is entirely willful because how can you look even indirectly at this and justify any aspect of this insurmountable human tragedy 💔💔💔
America going around the world to find more Indians to kill
Our current corrupt government is aiding and abetting the genocide of Palatines. We are complicit in this crime.
Regrettably, this nation has cared little about human rights over the course of its history. The availability of images and testimonies regarding the atrocities, coupled with the leverage of billions in aid lent to the regime commiting them, makes the bipartisan complicity especially odious.
It's a moral collapse that's truly chilling. Humanity will never live this down.
Republican are all about cruelty. It’s no longer the party of Lincoln.
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I'd tell you that you're going to hell but it's clear that you do not have a human soul.
And the way they oppress students in USA who protest and ceiling it antisemitism is directly a support to Israel and fascism in the USA. Free speech? USA truly show who they are, a freedom that is totally opposite of what freedom is.
You know why, they are all being paid to stay silent. AIPAC owns them all.
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The food crisis is being engineered by Hamas and the "aid" agencies in order to save Hamas from defeat. It's the next logical step after using their own children as human shields. Starve your own population and then accuse your enemy of being inhuman.
THE WARCRIMINAL FROM POLAND! BENJAMIN MILEIKOWSKY! HIS REAL NAME. ! BIBI IS AS EVIL AS HITLER! BOYCOTT ISRAEL!
Yes, the time has come in Israel, whoever is controlling these acts are doing to Gazans what was done in Holocaust
Heartbreaking.
Except for if you realize all the US politicians can’t say no to the money. On both sides
Why doesn’t Hamas just surrender if they care so much about the suffering of Gazans? They weren’t suffering like this before Hamas started the war.
Hamas and Netanyahu playing war in safety, while the people of Palestine and Israel are suffering the consequences. It’s leaders from both sides that need to stop and be replaced.
I can agree with all of that.
that's a most Nazi response.
How so?
Your comment shifts blame for murder, maiming, and injury of hundreds of thousands of people from Israel with a verbal sleight Goebbelesesque sleight of hand. Very Nazi.
My comment puts the blame on the people who started a war. So, you blame Roosevelt and Churchill for all the deaths in Europe from 1939 to 1945? That’s what you’re saying and that is extraordinarily Nazi-adjacent.
Israel started the war.
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It's not. That person is a fucking moron. The IDF could pull out just as easily. They're the ones currently razing the place. Hamas will never surrender because they're having a grand old time spending people like money.
And your point?
Well aren't you a barrel of sunshine? You asked why Hamas doesn't end things when we know why they won't. I then suggested the IDF get the fuck out of Dodge instead since they're more in control than anyone else in the area and the ones currently leveling the place.
Aah, that’s what I thought. So when Hitler wouldn’t surrender, the Allies should have just left and let him stay in power. Got it. I did Nazi that coming until you wrote it.
Okay buddy. Have a night.
Sure but isn’t it more important that every CNN talking head demand that their guests denounce Hamas when talking about, Gaza?
How else will trump make Gaza a resort town?
The cruelty is the point!
The immorality of our gov's policy here, and the illegality of it based on our own humanitarian laws, is bipartisan. No one party is responsible for our immoral and heartbreaking response. Both parties are corrupted by AiPaC. Both Parties have put a foreign power's interest before America.
People are starving to death. All of the major religions inform us of our duty. I see only two men standing in the way of compassion and decency, more interested in staying out of prison than serving humanity.
Travesty
What can people do? It feels helpless?
Absolutely heart-breaking. There is so much Evil that has been unleashed in our world, I'm afraid I sometimes feel overwhelmed. Yet, even as I write that I know that Good is more powerful. It just needs organization to take hold. At some point it will break through. Then, this Evil will be banished.
I have those same thoughts. I'm trying my best to keep from just giving up, but I know there are people out there who need our advocacy and support so I go day by day. We will prevail sooner rather than later.
Thank you. This was a comfort to me because I know you're right. I know in my heart this is what must be done but it's overwhelming at times. Can't let that stop us. We will prevail, guaranteed, and once it starts, it'll happen quickly, even though buildup seems too slow.
Republicans have a trifecta, what did people expect?
It’s not hard to understand at all when you look at a certain PAC that donates to >90% of the members of Congress
Meanwhile today, Shapiro scolding Zohran about antisemitism. The disconnect on what kind of moral response tamps down antisemitism…https://jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh-shapiro-slams-zohran-mamdani-anitsemitism-pennsylvania-governor-new-york-city-mayor/
they've given up on Gaza and they are giving up on us they are giving up on right vs wrong
They didn't care under Biden, why would they care under Trump? Many of them are getting paid plenty not to give a damn, and others simply don't as long as the people aren't white and wealthy.
and a lot of media outlets!!
Agreed. It should be the lede for every program.
Never any mention about 10.7.2023. Got it. Hypocrites.
You mean the raid that the Israeli government knew about in advance, allowed it to happen, and invoked the Hannibal Directive for good measure? Yes, by all means, let’s talk about that.
AND WHY AREN’T THE CITIZENS OF ISRAEL DOING ANYTHING TO STOP THIS? Genocide-Call it what it is-
For perspective, consider a list of genocides fully backed by U.S. dollars and political support. What’s truly ‘brain-breaking’ is that anyone still believes America has been a force for preventing genocide.
Half of these were US-backed; the others (Cambodia, Darfur, Rwanda) were not
The list of genocides involved U.S. weapons, funding, or political support, either directly or indirectly. This includes cases of direct complicity through arms sales, diplomatic shielding (e.g., UN vetoes), or strategic alliances. Indirect complicity includes a failure to intervene.
Do you mean "financed" because they were certainly "backed" by the US in other ways. The US called Rwanda a 'civil war' and took no action when they could have stopped it
By this standard every nation on the planet "backed" the Rwanda genocide, at which point, the accusation lacks coherence.
Precisely. To compare the US’s very active role in Guatemala or Gaza to these situations like Rwanda or Cambodia is just silly. In Cambodia the only US support for the Khmer Rouge was *after* they were overthrown. Which is still very bad, but doesn’t somehow make complicity retroactive
I wasn’t making a comparison; I was listing America’s role in genocides around the world. I was pointing out that Chris finding the current situation in Gaza ‘brain-breaking’ while ignoring a history of genocide that actually began with Indigenous peoples continuing until today is ‘brain-breaking.’
I agree with your core point
Leftists could have had a President who was at the very least susceptible to pressure on this issue, but nah.
Oh, no! It appears I angered the dumb leftist fuckheads who enabled a fascist authoritarian who hates Palestinians into power with their stupidity! Good.
Brain-breaking and scarily revealing. It’s hard to process that none the administrations/Congresses in my lifetime would have been much better on Gaza, but I fully believe it now.
It was always going to get much worse if Trump was elected
It really wasn’t. Kamala promised no different action. This is because of Biden the Zionist it got this bad
You’re delusional. You’ll blame every human being on Earth for what’s happening in Gaza but you won’t dare look in the mirror and see how your own irrational hatred of “Biden the Zionist” is directly responsible for helping bring Trump to power.
"You're delusional, you'll blame the genociders for the genocide they participated in and it's subsequent consequences but you won't accept my attempt to scapegoat you instead! Don't know refusing to lick my master's boots is worse than my master doing genocide?!"
Fuck Biden. I voted Harris, but don't fault anyone who sat the last election out. Biden/Harris tried to force a shit sandwich down the throats of liberals with the Gaza genocide. It's 100% their fault Trump is president.
I absolutely agree. Kamala refusing to allow a Palestinian American to speak at the convention was unconscionable. But Palestinian Americans still had to pay federal taxes to pay for the murder of their families. Gawd I hate our complicity with Netanyahu, Israel and the genocide.
Well let’s step back a second. Kamala “refusing to allow” is more likely; “Harris’ team thought it might send the wrong message to a certain lobbying group - if a Palestinian American spoke at the convention.” Like Bernie said: Harris’ mistake was listening to her consultants.
shes a conformist. she conforms to the consultants, and she believes our only human right is to conform to the law.
So you’re claiming that the former senator and VP and presidential candidate is a Politician?
I'm saying that democracy got Trump because all they care about is eternal holy wars and because they hate anyone who isn't unconditionally for israel. Tats their litmus test, and Trump is their god
What does it matter?
Oh yeah! Can’t piss off AIPAC. She could have over-ridden her “team” but made a very bad choice. I voted for her but I completely understood why the party line on backing the genocide was a deal breaker; it was because I knew tRumpov was more dangerous that I did vote and I voted for her.
Same.
Spare us the crocodile tears, Chris. A lot of us (myself included) have been dismayed and horrified at what's happening in Gaza for a long time. We warned that what's happening now is *exactly what would happen* if Trump got into office and wrote Bibi a blank check, which he has. /1
And we watched in dismay and horror as a lot of people who should've known better (yourself included) unrelentingly trashed and undermined the one candidate in last year's race who was actually spending political capital to demand a ceasefire and end to restrictions on aid flow in Gaza. /2
You helped bring this about, Chris. However marginal the effect, you contributed to a permission structure for believing it wouldn't matter if Trump won, which only increased the likelihood of this very result. You and your conscience will have to square with that someday. /3
Until then, don't think for a moment you have any right, moral or otherwise, to lecture those of us who actually give a damn about Gaza for reasons other than tickling the amygdalae of our audience to generate clicks. /end
Trump gave Netanyahu the go ahead to completely clear Gaza (and more). This okays ethnic cleansing and war crimes.
One could argue that one of the reasons Trump was in office to give Netanyahu the go-ahead was because Biden/Harris didn’t show leadership by denying Netanyahu the weapons he used. It wasn’t the only reason - but it was a significant reason.
People are starving and nobody sees a problem with this? Some folks are so SICK!!😵💫
Netanyahu is a murdering CRIMINAL!
It could happen here
What is happening in Gaza is an Israeli Vernichtungslager. What moral standing the State of Israel had has been destroyed by Netanyahu.
Let's be real. Israel never had any moral standing. Its first act in existence was ethnic cleansing.
What do we give Israel everyday? $10 million?
We cannot forget what these innocent people are suffering. The Israeli government are repeating Germany’s crimes during World War 2.
FOTUS engaged in war with Iran bc apparently Netanyahu (who many people believed for years a war monger) said he was in trouble at home. And FOTUS has said he wants to see condos on beaches there, which logic requires the graves of the Palestinian ppl. I voted for HER.
I’m remembering the days of not so long ago when USA 🇺🇸 would be helping starving people. We are no longer that kind of country; nowadays the federal government sends out fantastical memes, not food for the hungry.
Now we burn food meant for the starving…. The US is a terrorist nation.
I blame Hamas
Shock is no longer a valid reaction. Humans can be this blind and petty. Let’s flood the zone the other way.
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Genocide.
