Which is exactly why I used the phrase typically used to excuse Israel’s actions.

Iran has the right to defend itself.

That’s only a “fair” argument to make if one assumes that orthodox neoliberal policies such as the EU’s ban on state aid are somehow the universal ethical norm. Will, they aren’t.

If we made neoliberalism our dogma and the Chinese are outcompeting us maybe our dogma is fucking wrong.

Let’s start calling them militias.

Why does Iran get to dictate what happens in Oman’s territorial waters?

Because the US and Israel killed international law.

Iran has the right to defend itself.

I don’t know what “Israel’s right to exist” means. Like, I believe that Israel should exist as a secular, democratic country with fully equal rights for all people regardless of their ethnicity or religion, with the right of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to return, with reparations for the victims of genocide and apartheid, with full accountability for the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, and with a national project overseen by the international community that will effect the deep institutional and educational deradicalization of the population, including a complete political and institutional repudiation of all kind of jewish-supremacist forms of zionism, as well as a German-style Erinnerungskultur, and by having as its Staatsräson a commitment to the defence and security of Palestine. Is it jail for me in the Bundesrepublik or not?

I think there should be protection for both states and for all human beings living there.

Cool. How do you proposing twisting the arm of the fucking apartheid regime that is currently engaging in genocide to get it to comply with that aspiration? Really open to suggestions.

Anarchism made a thought crime in Germany.

Settler colonial projects absolutely can become pluralistic societies.

<gestures wildly at South Africa>

I honestly hope Angine de Poitrine show up to play his election rally.

a cold war brought on by drones instead of nukes

Oh great now I am worried about drones carrying dirty bombs.

I mean, that’s presumably why heads of state don’t go about assassinating other heads of state in the first place. Once you open that can of worms, what do you expect.

Even Chess rules tell you to not do that… And it is quite telling that that rule was indeed added by the Persians… Heed the fucking ancient wisdom you philistine fucks.

The NCAG was established by the Board of Peace, which was in turn set up by US President Donald Trump when he brokered the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel last October. But it has remained based outside Gaza for months, reportedly due to Israeli objections to its entry into the war-devastated territory.

Hamas and other Palestinian factions have held several rounds of talks in Cairo with mediators to narrow differences, particularly over the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire.

The first phase involved the release of the last Israeli hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians detained by Israel.

The transition to the second phase, which was to involve Hamas’s disarmament and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, has been stalled for months.

Israeli forces have actually expanded their presence in the territory in recent months, taking control of nearly 70 percent.

I love the smell of Oslo in the morning…

The Iran war is winding down

Well…

John Kerry of all people warned the world in 2016:

here is a fundamental reality: if the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic – it cannot be both – and it won’t ever really be at peace

The Israelis have made their choice for a One State solution and have physically implemented it. So now they are faced with Kerry’s stark dilemma: Jewish or democratic. They are taking the former route, creating a genocidal apartheid state.

How anyone can still support such a path in the name of “shared values” is beyond me. There are no shared values with a genocidal apartheid regime unless you yourself are genocidal and pro-apartheid.

In industrial agriculture, glyphosate (Monsanto’s Roundup) is used on “Roundup-Ready” monocultures that are genetically modified to tolerate it. It’s a very specific and supposed to be heavily monitored and carefully controlled process.

That use on its own is controversial for a bunch of reasons, but the idea of using roundup as warfare outside a roundup ready monoculture is a whole other thing. This isn’t about spraying resistant GMOs of a monoculture, it’s about destroying all plants in an area. It’s actually a really fucked up and evil thing to do.

Even more: every drop makes gets us closer to the breaking of the dam.

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John Kerry of all people warned of this in 2016:

here is a fundamental reality: if the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic – it cannot be both – and it won’t ever really be at peace

Israelis have made the choice, election after election for the last 2-3 decades to elect governments that expanded the settlements, derailed the figleaf of Oslo and destroyed the practicality of a Palestinian state. The choice for One State has been made and implemented. So now they are faced with Kerry’s stark dilemma: Jewish or democratic.

People’s response to this reality falls I think into one of four positions:

1. Accept that Palestinians should be destroyed as a people in their historic homeland.
2. Pretend that the two state solution is still viable.
3. Imagine some kind of apocalyptic establishment of a Palestinian-only state with the expulsion of the Israeli Jews.
4. Fight for a South Africa-style binational reconciliation on the basis of equal rights and democracy.

Option 3 sounds “anticolonial” and “revolutionary” but it is delusional as it ignores the facts on the ground. It is also unjust. Just like any other settler-colonial state from Canada, to Brazil, to the US, to Australia, there is no reset button that can be pressed to undo history. We have to live with the legacy of settler colonialism. There are Israeli jewish babies being born today that are third, fourth or fifth generation “sabras”. You can play the pseudofanonist edgelord and imagine some kind of Pied-noir style “the suitcase or the coffin” expulsion, but even the Pieds-noirs were only about 1 million and 10% of Algeria’s population, as opposed to about 7 million and 50% of the population of the land of historic Palestine. Those people aren’t going anywhere. The 7 million Palestinians are also not going anywhere unless the Israelis are allowed to complete the genocide.

The only path forward that is not (further) genocide or slavery is the extremely difficult path to decolonization. Reparations, truth and reconciliation, democracy, human rights for both communities. From the goddamn river to the goddamn sea.