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                                             February 18, 2025


In the months before the 2024 election, the Israeli
attacks on Gaza were increasing in severity, eventually     THE_HAMAS_FAULT
provoking the ICJ to label it "genocide".

As this was happening, there was a faction of people
online who started jamming, making excuses for what
Israel was doing, and denying that it was actually
a genocide.

I was told that obviously the United States had to
go along with what Israel was doing because *mumble*.

And clearly President Biden couldn't interfere with
this process because:

  (1) really there was nothing he could do on his
      own, he's only the president.

          It was quickly pointed out that this is wrong:
          arms shipments to Israel were structured to
          get them below the limit that would require
          Congressional approval.  Biden could simply
          decide to stop sending weapons.

  (2) political realities were such that Biden could not
      interfere with Israel or risk losing the election
      because *mumble*.

          Then polling came out showing that a majority
          of Americans actually wanted arms shipments
          to Israel to stop.

          Just going by ethnicities: something like 2.5%
          are Jewish and 1.5% are Islamic, but the Jewish
          population is clustered in safely blue states,
          and the Islamic population was in swing states,     Few of us argued
          and notably Michigan might actually be lost         that this was
          on the Gaza issue.                                  *why* you should
                                                              care about the
                                                              issue.

                                                          TEAM_BRAINS_BROKEN


    Further: there are laws on the books prohibiting the
    US government from supporting a genocidal military
    operation.

    The Biden regime covered for this by have the Blinken
    state department lie about what was happening in
    Gaza, denying it was a genocide over the objections     This sort of
    of the members of his staff-- some of whom resigned     unmitigated
    over this-- and going against the rulings of the ICJ.   sleaze is the
                                                            sort of thing
                                                            you expect from
        BIDEN_RESTRAINED                                    Republicans.

                                                            But when
                                                            Democrats do
                                                            it it's supposed
                                                            to be okay.

                                                            The moderate
                                                            extremists all
                                                            politely look
                                                            the other way
                                                            and pretend
                                                            they don't see.


But okay, so rightly or wrongly the
conventional wisdom was that doing
something about the Gaza genocide
before the election was politically
impossible.

For the Democrats, it was a case of
genocide or lose, so we were going
to go with genocide.

But what we actually got was genocide
*and* lose and now, true to form the
Democratic Centrists keep jumping to
blame everything on the left.

If only the left would learn the virtues
of Omerta, all would have been well.                 THE_GAZA_SHUT_UP

But which was is?  No one cared about Gaza,
or too many people cared about Gaza?
How can you have both conditions at the
same time?

They come back to this farily often as an
explanation for the 2024 loss, but I still
can't see how they figure it-- it's like
some weird guilt reaction, they need to
justify what they've done, and justify
ignoring the obvious moral problems with
the US course of action...

       KOS_GUILT


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