Israeli Leaders Demand Probe of IDF Rape Video—To Find Out Who Leaked It
"This is what Israelis rioted to protect, what the Knesset debated—the right to rape Palestinians," said one critic.
No surprise there.
After Knesset members actually got up and angrily defended the supposed right to rape Palestinians and the finance minister lamented the fact that the rest of the world would condemn arranging for the death by starvation of 2 million Palestinians, there's pretty much no low left that's too low for the Israeli government.
Hit the bottom and kept on digging. Next stop, upper mantle.
Pot calling kettle black, sir.
What?
Mmm...no
It's "some random guy with a working moral framework, the ability to feel empathy, and some measure of respect for the rights of other humans and simple human decency calling a bunch of murderous xenophobic psychopaths murderous xenophobic psychopaths." So it's in fact nothing like that.
It bothers me that voters aren't going to find support for Israel to be a disqualifying issue.
well, show me who you can vote for, that actually has a reasonable chance of getting in, who isn't supporting Israel.
America currently has the choice of literal fascist takeover, or just milk-toast "liberal" policy.
To your first point, there are none unless you're willing to vote third party.
To your second point, I disagree. Fascism isn't some specter on the horizon. It's already here, and the only choice is between the flavors that have been forced upon us.
In the US, milque-toast liberal policy is fascist. Look at the costs of health care and education, the astronomical spending on war, the patronage of the big banks and exemptions they receive for their crimes, and the deliberate and escalated impoverishment of the poor and milddle class. (Not to mention the continued and escalated militarization of the police.)
In my opinion, you shouldn't qualify or disqualify a candidate over a single issue. While it sucks that nobody on the ticket supports this particular view, there aren't a lot of other constructive options available.
In my opinion, you shouldn't qualify or disqualify a candidate over a single issue.
I think that's fair for most issues.
On Israel though... I mean... at what point is the horror and our government's support of it enough to support a change?
No, don't care don't want trump2. Whine into the void for all I care
It's like I said: two flavors of fascism.
You have the more civilized kind helmed by the Democrats, where people are oppressed and killed by poverty wages, lack of housing and education, militarized police, and cuts to the social safety net in favor of war.
And then you have the Trumpist flavor, where all of those things happen too and he says mean things.
The lofty speeches don't make much of a difference to me when viewing what the two parties actually do.
You again eh.
The guy who wants people to vote for Trump....
Again, I don't think anyone wants the Israel war
But, Trump is so much worse. It's not even a comparison at this time.
Trump is literally raping women. And at this time, that's the least of what he's done
But I suspect you're taking this approach because you know directly telling people to vote for Trump will get you down votes, but if people check your history, it's clear that's what you want...
Thank you for your reply.
A lot of discussion in some replies to this, but what I want to know is what you want people to actually do?
Do you think people should vote this upcoming election? If so, who do you think they should vote for?
What do think would happen if people reading this thread (and no one else, let's not pretend we have any sort of real influence here) followed your advice? Would it actually make the world a better place?
I know full well I'm shouting into the void. My side has less than 1% of the vote every election. Nothing I say matters beyond the enjoyment of discussion.
The conservatives won and fascism is what we're getting for it.
I just want people who call themselves liberal to take a moment and actually think about what Democrats do once they're voted into power.
On some level I like to believe many people think of it as a disqualifying issue but recognize that this is a bad time and a bad system to disqualify anyone.
That is entirely the fault of the faulty democratic system. Voters like to think they have the power but they don't have much in America. They can't even all swing to a third candidate and vote for them.
After this last primary, I can't agree with you.
The Democrats had Marianne Williamson, who is by far a more moral and progressive candidate, and wasn't suffering clear and public cognitive decline.
Zero votes.
The Republicans had Nikki Haley and a host of others, who will also some degree of asshole, weren't nearly the same degree of asshole as Trump. (And also weren't suffering very public cognitive decline.)
Zero votes.
Is the system bad? Yes. But folks who vote party every single time always seem to pick the worst candidates too, and it's eminently clear that genocide and war crimes aren't considered disqualifying factors in voters' choices.
Partisans, in essence, vote for whoever NBC and Fox tell them to.
Not a probe to find the perpetrators, just who tattled. Classic.
Can't wait to meet the Israeli Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Are you also in a secret prison in Israel? What a coincidence
What's really scary to me is that I'm pretty confident the next Al Qaeda is having its origin story right now.
This nice to have to keep people who say only "democracy in the middle East" and "not apartheid state" quite...
So they are taking tips on how to handle leaks from the US government?
They will sic prince bonesaw's squad of professional butchers to cleanse the earth of all traces of this crime.
A perfect demonstration of how deeply ingrained in the middle eastern mentality is the utter disrespect for human life so that these things are fully legitimized over there. And if our repuglicans had their way it would be here too
"ingrained in the middle eastern mentality"? I'd have a look at my own mentality if I was this comfortable generalizing several hundreds of millions of people like that. It seems like you have disdain for both victim and perpetrator irrespective of which in your mind is which, because they're middle eastern. Weird.
