Netanyahu and company give every indication of wanting to repeat the Armenian Genocide on the Palestinians. Armenian Christians lived in Anatolia for 1500 years until they didn’t. That’s about how long Muslims have lived west of the Jordan River. If Trump wins in 2024, there will be no Palestinians left on their land by 2028.
The most bizarre part of this left fantasy is that it forgets that Netanyahu supported by Trump will have four years to raze Gaza and the West Bank completely. Not to mention southern Lebanon. No one on the left is willing to believe in degrees of restraint and so no one understands that Biden-Harris does restrain Netanyahu somewhat. With Trump in the White House, there will be no need for that. Maybe we'll even get Kushner running shuttle democracy to Arab countries trying to get them to take in the Palestinian as Netanyahu ejects them. It hardly seems impossible.
the problem is that the status quo is so horrific, and Biden and Harris' public comments have been so indifferent to Palestinian suffering, that people despair.
Which I think has led to some bad decisions. But I understand why people feel repulsed by the current administration.
Thank you so much for this piece! I’ve been grappling with friends and others I admire who are on the “burn it all down” side of the left and it just makes me feel like I’m losing my mind to see them minimizing what it would mean to allow Trump to come into power when they say things like “if you’re voting for Harris, you’re just not willing to give anything up to stand in solidarity with Gazans”…like, it’s a fair critique to say that those of us in comfortable places often *aren’t* willing to “lose” anything in service of other’s gain, and yes, we should all be fighting to end arms shipments, etc, but *no one* is going to benefit from allowing Trump to return to power.
Netanyahu and company give every indication of wanting to repeat the Armenian Genocide on the Palestinians. Armenian Christians lived in Anatolia for 1500 years until they didn’t. That’s about how long Muslims have lived west of the Jordan River. If Trump wins in 2024, there will be no Palestinians left on their land by 2028.
The most bizarre part of this left fantasy is that it forgets that Netanyahu supported by Trump will have four years to raze Gaza and the West Bank completely. Not to mention southern Lebanon. No one on the left is willing to believe in degrees of restraint and so no one understands that Biden-Harris does restrain Netanyahu somewhat. With Trump in the White House, there will be no need for that. Maybe we'll even get Kushner running shuttle democracy to Arab countries trying to get them to take in the Palestinian as Netanyahu ejects them. It hardly seems impossible.
the problem is that the status quo is so horrific, and Biden and Harris' public comments have been so indifferent to Palestinian suffering, that people despair.
Which I think has led to some bad decisions. But I understand why people feel repulsed by the current administration.
Thank you so much for this piece! I’ve been grappling with friends and others I admire who are on the “burn it all down” side of the left and it just makes me feel like I’m losing my mind to see them minimizing what it would mean to allow Trump to come into power when they say things like “if you’re voting for Harris, you’re just not willing to give anything up to stand in solidarity with Gazans”…like, it’s a fair critique to say that those of us in comfortable places often *aren’t* willing to “lose” anything in service of other’s gain, and yes, we should all be fighting to end arms shipments, etc, but *no one* is going to benefit from allowing Trump to return to power.
(I’ve been grappling with this stuff for nearly a year over on my knitting blog, because obviously a knitting blog is the right place to think out loud about geopolitics, ha! https://whitknits.wordpress.com/2024/01/24/slow-progress-thinking-out-loud/)
You’re connecting the US past of slavery and massacres for Land to our current consensus supporting the current genocide hit me unexpectedly.
Brilliant! I so appreciate this insight.