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    2 months ago

    You just keep making noise, how about trying to make a coherent argument instead? Steelman a position of his that you disagree with and then tell me what exactly you disagree with about it.

    This incoherent, ambiguous hand-waving isn’t going to achieve anything. You chose to speak up - then speak up.

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        2 months ago

        He claims Israel isn’t a settler colonial

        First, my general attitude: I’m not interested in exploring all the ways that Israel has missed the mark—from Prime Minister Netanyahu’s corrupt alliance with the far right, to the many crimes committed by settlers in the West Bank…

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        isn’t commiting commiting genocide

        He argues that Israel’s actions in Gaza do not constitute genocide under any reasonable definition of the term. He’s also pointing out that Hamas has openly expressed genocidal intent toward Jews and Israel, both in their founding charter and in public statements by their leaders. He views the genocide accusation against Israel as a moral inversion: it attributes genocidal intent to the side that has the means but refrains from using them for that purpose, while ignoring the side that has the explicit intent but lacks the capability.