A House vote makes it clear: Israel’s support among Democrats is starting to buckle
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More than 100 Democrats voted to cut military aid to Israel as US public opinion shifts – Republicans are noticing ...
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A House vote makes it clear: Israel’s support among Democrats is starting to buckle
More than 100 Democrats voted to cut military aid to Israel as US public opinion shifts – Republicans are noticing tooJoseph Gedeon (The Guardian)
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As I was saying a year ago:
"👉This abominable deed will haunt them for generations to come👈 (probably less than the instigated murder of #Christ by the #Roman invasion force at the behest of the #Jerusalem elite, but still.)"
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1149…
In other words:
"There is a popular #Hebrew phrase which states, "maaseh avot siman lebanim", meaning 👉"the deeds of the fathers are portents for the children." 👈
It is used...
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...to explain how the events
with which the forefathers engage are replicated to some degree in subsequent generations."
emethatorah.com/children-abrah…
Christians know this concept from
1 #Maccabees 2:51-53:
"51 “Remember the deeds of the fathers, which they did in their generations; and receive great honor and an everlasting name."
There are even other Bible quotes that come to mind.
IDK what the #Israelis were thinking,...
Children of Abraham
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...apart from some occasional #JerusalemPost headlines, but the global backlash, and even the classification of their military 's deeds as #Genocide, made it very obvious that there would be a reckoning:
mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1151…
It is extremely unfair to all the #Jews in the global #Diaspora who did not have a hand or even opposed the #Israeli regimes actions in #Gaza (and now elsewhere,)...
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That is now a minority opinion, not based on facts:
"Via #Reuters
#InternationalAssociationOfGenocideScholars,
".. the world's biggest academic association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution saying the 👉legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in #Gaza👈..."
(cf. link above, as well as
Legally:
Current Status of the ICJ Case
The International Court of Justice has not yet issued a final ruling on whether genocide...
@guardian
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... occurred in Gaza. As of July 2026, the case remains in the written pleading stage, with South Africa v. Israel still proceeding through the court's deliberative process.
un.org/unispal/document/icj-co…
Also, to equate a terrorist group with a whole population is no acceptable defense in any respected legal system.
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International Court of Justice Order on fixing of time-limits: Reply and Rejoinder - South Africa's genocide case against Israel - Question of Palestine
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...and now elsewhere,) but the global rise in #Antisemitism was also to be expected.
It can only be hoped, that they finally make the right decision in October when they will decide on the future of #Netanyahu in particular and #Israel's future in general--at the polls.
If human society is to survive, the return to the rules-based system implemented after #WWII is indispensable.
As a famous French...
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... astronomer and #Nobel Prize laureate said in a long 2025 #ORF interview:
"...the way things are currently progressing, humanity will not even make it to #Mars [let alone to an extrasolar planet, as #Longtermists crave.]
Like me, he's completely opposed to a "Planet B" approach, meaning, if we wreck Earth 🌍, we can just settle some other planet.
This will not happen, with almost 100% certainty not...
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... for anyone living today.
(There are no Stargates or Warp Drives.)
So, if there is to be a future for humanity, there is only one way this might and well for all of us:
All the alleged perpetrators of war crimes or crimes against humanity (and hopefully soon #Ecocide) must be tried at the #Hague.
The alternatives all entail a breakdown of society as we know it. .which...
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...might still come either way, given that the #UN estimates that there will be 300mn to 2 billion #ClimateRefugees.
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Exactly
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