There are plenty of policies that have majority support, even from Republican voters as well, that the Party has not implemented. On a weapons embargo, you’re right that the switch happened relatively fast, due to the obvious reasons, but that doesn’t excuse the Party from ignoring the issue. Especially during a critical election, when they are, at least in theory, supposed to be going after the most amount of votes they can. Representatives, both Senate and House, regularly hear from their constituents. They see the polls. It’s their own decision to go against their constituents.

I’m all in favor of an improved democratic system that better represents the people, both locally and nationally. There are many many aspects of our ‘democratic Republic’ that is antidemocratic. But my main point is that the Parties have no genuine interest in what the people want. They are entirely beholden to the interests of corporate donors. And in that, I think we’re in agreement.

The Democratic Party is no genuine opposition to the fascist threat of the Republican Party, precisely because of how much they gravitate towards the interests of corporate donors at the expense of the people.

Yes! That’s the right word. Fixed, thanks

Yeah, Nineteen Senators Voted to Block Weapons Shipments to Israel a minority of the Democratic Party. Most of them along with every Republican Senator did not want to block weapon shipments, in violation of the Leahy Law and of course International Law

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We need grassroots opposition, organization, and resistance to fight back against American fascism

Do you think the Leahy Law wasn’t violated? The support for Israel’s genocide is bipartisan, they wouldn’t impeach either a Dem or a Rep for it

Thanks for proving my point

I’m not interested in justification, that sidelines the root causes of the issue. If the violent actions of the oppressed are concerning, which is a completely understandable position, the focus still needs to center on the violent actions of the oppressor (the root cause) which are also magnitudes worse both in brutality and scale.

I don’t personally agree with every action every resistance has ever done, but that doesn’t matter. If I want an end to the violence, which I do, I know the focus of my attention needs to be on ending the root cause of the violence.

This has been the case with every anti-colonialist movement. Ireland, Vietnam, Algeria, ect. Something Franz Fanon has studied, understood, and explained incredibly well.

I’d call them medical luddites but even back then they had primitive vaccinations against smallpox, plus the luddites did at least have genuine concerns (jobs). Being anti-medicine is mind-boggling. Even if it stems from anti-pharma, of which the profit motive is genuinely concerning, this anti-medicine mentality does nothing to address it and only harms themselves and others.

Some European country not too long ago, I wonder which one…

How incredibly inhumane. Immigrants built this country. If anyone here isn’t the descendant of an immigrant; they are an either an descendant of a native American to survived the genocide, or of a chattel slave who survived the anti-black violence that’s been prevalent in this country for over a hundred years.

If the ideal version of America is supposed to be freedom and democracy where anyone looking to make a better life for themselves is welcome, then anti-immigrant sentiment is anti-american.

I’m Anti-colonialist anti-imperialist and anti-fascist. I believe every human deserves human rights. I support those who fight against their oppressors in order to gain emancipation and independence. Violence doesn’t come out of nowhere, to understand where it comes from you need material analysis. To end anti-colonialist violence, you need to first end the violence of colonialism. That is the root cause of anti-colonial violence. It’s not that difficult to understand, especially if you try to read and understand the works of those who fought against colonialism and imperialism.

The top comment is giving a false equivalence of the leaders of Israel who are perpetuating genocide and the leaders of Hamas that are resisting that genocide. There are many parallels to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and it should be clear to everyone that equating the leadership of that uprising to the leadership of those who put them in the concentration camps is ridiculous

In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video

So it’s the fault of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising for choosing violence? You’re just both-sides-ing Colonialism and Anti-colonialism without any critical understanding of the material reality of why the colonialism exists or how it’s affecting the local population.

Does any of this happen if the Arab world doesn’t go to war with Israel off and on since the 40s?

So we’re doing Zionist propaganda now?

• The Birth of Israel Myths and Realities - Simha Flapan

Additionally:

• 10 Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe (summery)

You’d benefit from watching those videos by Adi Callai or reading Franz Fanon.

When peaceful resistance is met with live ammo and the everyday violence of apartheid and settler colonialism are normalized by the occupier, the only option left is armed resistance. When the occupier wants you dead for existing, you can either die fighting for your freedom or die lying down.

That commenter is a Zionist who has repeatedly justified Israel’s actions, continued to repeat Zionist propaganda regardless of how many times it gets debunked, and has denied both that Israel has been cutting off aid throughout the genocide and the reality of famine in Gaza

What Fanon implored us to do was to view the struggle of the oppressed as a struggle to create a new mode of being, a new form of humanity. Within the revolutionary struggles of the masses, he insisted, lie the seeds of a new humanity. The ongoing resistance in Palestine today is not a new phenomenon, but is rather the latest episode in a decades’ long struggle for freedom and what Hegel and Fanon both agree on, recognition. Not recognition to live within shrivelled little cantons and drip-fed subsistence, but recognition as a human being in the holistic sense of the term. The stone throwing, the stabbings and the bombings are a reaction to a colonial regime which denies this recognition.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20151019-palestine-through-the-lens-of-frantz-fanon/

Both the Occupier and the Occupied can and do use acts of terrorism to further their aims, but the aims are diametrically opposed. The aim of the occupier is to continue the occupation, that requires violence to maintain, and ethnic cleansing. The aim of the occupied is to end the occupation, by any means possible, and gain emancipation. We see that one is a reaction to the other, Israel’s perpetual violence towards native peoples is the underlying cause of these conflicts. Solutions to ending the violence of anti-colonialism can only come from ending the underlying violence of the colonialism.

We see that permanent occupation develops into an Apartheid, as the settlers / occupiers have rights upheld by the State and Military, while the natives / occupied have no rights and subjected to violence from both the Settlers and Military. The State, who holds the monopoly on power, uses terrorism to suppress resistance to the occupation in order to maintain it. The occupied, having no power, uses terrorism as a means to resist the occupation.

Israel has no interest in peace, it has interest in land grabbing, which is in complete opposition to peace. This is fundamental to Zionism. Which is why an end to Zionism and a regime change, where a Secular Bi-National One-State that gives equal rights to Palestinians and Israelis is the only way for the conflict to really end. Not only with Palestinian resistance, but with all resistance groups that were created by Israeli occupation.

The existence of Hamas, and any armed resistance movement, is directly due to the decades of violence experienced daily under the permanent occupation, the Apartheid State, of Israel. It’s impossible to understand their existence if you don’t understand the lived experience and material conditions they are forced to live under. There is no such thing as a perfect victim when it comes to anti-Colonialist resistance, not for the Vietcong, the IRA, or the ANC either. Can you condemn the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in the same way as the violence of the Warsaw Ghetto?

In the Shadow of the Holocaust by Masha Gessen, the situation in Gaza is compared to the Warsaw Ghettos. The comparison was also made by a Palestinian poet who was later killed by an Israeli airstrike. Adi Callai has also written on the parallels in his article The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and expanded upon in his corresponding video

Adi Callai has also done a great analysis of how Antisemitism has been weaponized by Zionism during its history, as well as an analysis of Franz Fanon and Identity Politics in the context of Colonialism and Anti-colonialism.

If one side is calling for genocide and the other is calling for the prosecution of those advocating for genocide, a centrist perspective isn’t about endorsing a little bit of genocide or putting a few people in prison.

This is not the situation. Both the fascist Republican and the Democratic Party, that’s supposed to be the opposition to Fascism, unconditionally supported arming a state that has not only been committing genocide for over 15 months, but has committed ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and settler colonialism for over 76 years.

Instead, it involves investigating how we reached a situation where people are calling for genocide, apprehending the group that could actually commit genocide, and dismantling the institutions that made it possible for people to join that group. This process is resource-intensive and often anticlimactic.

This is an incredibly far left position to the Democratic Party, which denounced the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant and the ICJ case against Israel. Nor is it anticlimactic when we know genocide is already underway because of how incredibly well documented it has been.

The left’s search for idealism is what doomed them in the 2024 election.

Do you mean the Democratic Party here? Because what doomed them is ignoring the demands of their constituents. “The Left” in the US is entirely grassroots and had no effect on the policies of the Democratic Party during the election.

It’s a genocide.

Yeah, did you miss the entire point? Those aren’t the Democratic representatives being criticized