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I'm acknowledging what I see happening before my eyes. The most extreme Zionists are in the government today with very significant ministers. Netanyahu is a total extremist himself and I think he is the president that has served the longest in Israel, he is there because they people chose him over and over. He wants one Jewish ethnostate, with other minorities at most, how kind. The military action in Gaza in the last eight months is as extreme as it could be. The way Gaza was treated before October was extreme too. The trend in the West Bank is clear, more and more Zionist settlers in, worse conditions for the Palestinians as the years go through. Constant violent harassment for them from armed settlers and the Zionist military forces. Whatever you call moderate in Israel, is not having any political influence. So you're wrong, I see the other side very well, it's doing nothing, I wish they were, because the ceasefire would be a reality if they did. I see the full picture very well.

I understand why Gazans see Israel the way they do, because they have suffered terrible oppression for decades and most of their citizens are actually refugees of other parts of Palestine that they were brutally kicked off years ago, the ones that were lucky to make it alive. The last 20 years turned into an open-air prison where the murder of unarmed citizens was usual from the other side of the fence by the IDF. Restricted any chances to develop any economic activity on their own, or even having a decent supply of necessary goods in, stated and achieved by a suffocating Israeli government and their blockade. I also understand what Israelis want in Gaza. They want it to be part of their Zionist colony, and the Palestinians who oppose that are out of that equation. They say it out loud and their actions align with what they are saying. The current government presented the grotesque plan called Gaza 2035, I'll attach a picture. That's blatant colonization, what a disrespect from the oppressors, to say it someway, to the local people whose homes and infrastructures are being bombed by them nonstop. Homes with families in, terrible. But as I was pointing out in my previous comment, a lot of Jewish people recognize how awful all this that's happening is, and offer their solidarity to Palestinians. That's remarkable.

This Jewish woman telling a group of rabbis that they are not Jewish, crazy things to see nowadays. A lot of Jewish people all over the world recognize the injustice that has been done to Palestinians, the violent colonization of a land, with ethnic cleansing and displacement. Good for them! Meanwhile Zionists asking to turn Gaza into a parking lot, Israeli politicians, soldiers, and citizens in unison, that's today. Asking and actually doing it.

I remember Brian Tyler Cohen's take on this before the debate. He was saying that Republicans and their media had been picturing Joe Biden so exaggeratedly badly, that just by showing up to the debate, and making an okay sober performance, the low expectations set by his rivals would be well surpassed, and that would be considered a win for the Democrats. It didn't go that way. His performance was really that bad and it's clear to everyone he is having usual age-related issues. Which is not a shame at all, but he shouldn't intend to lead the country for four more years. He shouldn't even be campaigning, that's very demanding work. Yet I would prefer him to Trump, but I don't think you can get all the votes you need on your boat with: Biden is old and has problems but he is better than the other who will destroy democracy. Even if it's true, more reasons to be responsible for democracy and select a candidate able to do a better job. Responsibility goes both ways, voters have it, but political parties too. His party should push him to quit and get their old rule book out to see what can be done in this situation to get another candidate as fast as possible. They can have old Biden playing a role supporting whoever is chosen during the campaign, without exhausting him too much, because he is old, and his activity should be moderate. His time in the first line of action should be done.

Okay, but if we check your own timeline, you are not the best example of this that you ask others to do, so maybe you should check your own darkness as you call it first before pointing a finger at others.

This is projection, this sentence suits you in this forum like a glove, so I don't know what's your problem with that now. This is a well-educated refugee man from Gaza, his voice is relevant in this conflict, as a representation of the people of this part of Palestine that is being destroyed, unlike the other side that is not being destroyed. I'm not against interviewing people on both sides, it's totally fine. That doesn't mean we have to agree equally with both at all, but it's okay to listen to everyone. What I think is that you don't like this particular side's story being shared, and you pursue an ad-hominem against the journalist. The interview is valuable, the Gazan man shares his own and his people's struggles, and keeps good track of many of Israel's lies before and after October last year.

He does the interviews that he considers worth doing and sharing as an independent journalist capable of making his own decisions he is.

Here is an interview worth watching of Owen Jones with a Palestinian refugee who has tracked many of Israel's lies and attempted manipulations. How unbearable Israel was making life for Gazans and Palestinians before October last year, and all the lies that have come after too.

I'm providing my analysis of the current situation and making a prediction. I never pretended otherwise.

I don't buy it. You can't mold the reality that much. The debate was awful for Biden's image, this damaged his position, and it's a one-against-one race, so Trump is better than before now in consequence.

I think the Democratic Party needed three pillars. First was how awful the opponent is, that still works. Second, some accomplishments to show about his current term, at least in socio-economic areas, I think there's something there too. The Palestinian conflict will not help, the student and Muslim communities' support are likely affected. Third was the candidate and a good campaign where you need to show him more than hide him. Right now it's better to hide the man, that's bad. Every appearance of him is a potential disaster. It was needed for undecided voters not to have a clear reason like this where they could say Trump is better. Now they have it.

Yeah, I told you that, the issue is not the other day's debate, the issue is that he can't debate anymore. Don't misunderstand, we are not talking about debates here, he is not capable of reading the room he is in, and what's happening around him without someone telling him. A lot of people is not going to vote for that mess no matter how awful the other person is. Even some people who could have voted for him is going to vote for Trump, because at least he is capable of basic things for his jobs like traveling to other countries and meet other presidents and have conversations with them. I don't care that much that the team behind his corpse covers for him, I care that we are not going to get to that because he is not going to win.

It's not about the event the other night. Yeah, Biden lost, no matter what Trump said, but the problem goes beyond that. Four years ago he could still speak well and inspire some leadership. The debate showed how much he has deteriorated, his age caught up, and everyone saw it. The way he moves, speaks and his expression have changed, and is going to get much worse during the next years in which he pretends to govern. The debate not only turned some undecided votes to Trump, but will demotivate part of the bases that don't like Trump, and could have voted the alternative, but won't do it for such an old man. I understand there's a team behind every president, but I find almost insulting that the Democratic party pretends people to vote for someone in this condition for such an important position. We should be talking about the awful lies of Trump and the good things that has achieved Biden, but the conversation is about his age and condition of him. It's the elephant in the room, there's no way to unsee it, and avoiding addressing it is not even possible. The only way out is to get another candidate, but won't happen. Trump is going to win.

The debate settled it, there were hints of the decline before, but this showed another level yet unseen. The man can't speak clearly, he gets lost in his head, and is not fit for the job. Cenk Uygur was saying it a year before, the man was so right. He is asking for a replacement now. This is what the Democrats should do right now but won't do. Biden quits the race, explaining he thought he would be in better shape and wanted to serve another term, but that sees it's not how it is, so he accepts to leave his place to someone younger. Not Bernie, sorry. Make an express process to choose a successor in one month max, and fight like a beast the time left. Not ideal at all, but keeping the walking dead is just a lost cause.

Biden should quit right now. This is lunacy, he is going to lose. He talks like a very old man because that's what he is.

Biden advanced age is very noticeable, and he aspires to run a powerful country, it's a big problem, and not only aesthetically. Trump is not much younger but doesn't look and move like a mummy, at least. Even Bernie Sanders, who is older than Biden, seems to have more clarity and sharpness yet. I would still vote for Biden, his social and economic policies are better and he is the lesser of two evils internationally. Although he is not good, mostly about Palestine, he's burned himself with that, and Netanyahu, Israel, and AIPAC will support the candidate they prefer anyway, which is Trump. Not like Biden isn't a totally convinced supporter of Israel, but all those awful war crimes in broad light stink too bad even for him, so I think he should have been more critical about at least those aspects for his own good. Either way, it's an issue he would have received burns no matter what. Ukraine is another hot potato that didn't go his and the USA's way, and this is on him. Newsom would have been a much better candidate. He has decided to stay loyal to Biden, as the old man didn't step down. Kamala Harris is awful, so uncharismatic, she would be crushed as Hillary Clinton was. Buttigieg is better than her, at least he can speak coherently and return the punches he receives from Republicans in real-time, but I don't know, I don't think he can carry all the wagons Democrats need. Newsom is the best, he debated DeSantis for fun, and he did well.

Here a good analysis of the early times of the war, but more importantly, of the 2014 and subsequent years.

If you are winning on the battlefield, that is what you are giving up, gaining more land. But it's not out of the cost of human lives and big wars are always risky, so it would be very satisfying for Putin and Russia the terms he put on the table, even if they have the advantage. The NATO and Zelensky side don't want it, they still have to admit they have lost, and that they won't regain the lost territories by force, or by dialogue. But they should come to terms with the fact that Russia can gain even more, that's why they should sit down, apart from stopping the slaughter on both sides, but mostly on theirs, as it's understandable. Ukrainian common citizens don't want to fight, because they know their fate if they do, death. They send them into the first front which is a meat grinder and the Zelensky loyal Azov battalions wait on a second front and kill them if they retreat. Russians on the other hand, not only outnumber them, but they are willing to fight. They receive good training before going and good benefits. NATO countries are using the gray areas of sending long-range weapons, instructors, and things like that as much as they can. I don't think they'll send troops, because Russia will attack anyone who does that directly. USA, which moves the strings in NATO, will abandon any member who makes such a stupid decision on his own because they don't want to get involved directly in a full war against Russia. Maybe they even understand the high risks of that on a global scale. So let's say Poland decides to send troops without the permission of the USA, which they won't give, then they are fucked, Russia will attack them directly, and NATO won't do shit, even if they are NATO members. You've eaten a lot of propaganda. I remember the first few days of the war with YouTube videos with titles like Why Russia has already lost. They've aged like milk in summer, I wonder if they're still up there. They probably disappeared as all these social media accounts with the Ukranian colors in their nicknames did. The videos stated how weak and bad the Russian military force was, predicted a total economic collapse, and that the Russian citizens would personally put Putin down of power. They were wrong in everything, they were just winning the propaganda war, and thought that was enough, but the battlefield is what matters most in times of war, and after three years, Russia is consistently winning on that front, the one that matters. The advance is slow, Ukraine can still defend itself, but the erosion will affect them more and more. No Western weapon will fix that. Russia has good equipment and won't get out of it. You are wrong on that, they are not using 80-year-old equipment as you say, that's ridiculous. Maybe some yes, who knows, if they still work, whatever. But what they didn't have ready in 2022, they have developed it by now or bought it to their numerous allies, and they are not out of money. I'm telling you, pure propaganda, the specialty of the West, which is nice in times of peace, but in real war you need real results.

One thing that I think is that you gotta be a big piece of shit to release a big dog to attack an elderly man or woman, no matter what your creed or the other person's is. That happened in Nazi Germany, and is happening again in Zionist Israel. Hasbara all you want about it with the US pay dollars, but that won't change. This is my insight right now. You're welcome.

Yeah, maybe he was naive enough to believe that the US believed in freedom of the press and speech as they claim they do. Obviously, they don't. Anyway, even at the incredibly high cost to his life and integrity, I think he won't regret what he did after some years. Now it's early to say, the man has been suicidal for years due to his imposed conditions. He'll need time to heal.

Ukraine is out of soldiers, those poor guys without any training have no chance of surviving in the front. I see the evidence that they are practically kidnapping men in the streets or tricking them, because they see beyond propaganda that Russia is winning. They don't want to die, but if they speak up against Zelensky, they'd be in big trouble too, not to say dead. The West is playing with their lives when there are diplomatic routes they could and would have taken if it was men from their own countries dying. Apparently, ISIS is now very interested in attacking Russia. They claimed the terrorist attack that killed more than 100 civilians in Moscow. Could the CIA be messing? I don't discard it at all. At minute one of the attack the USA was saying it wasn't Ukraine, that it was ISIS. How did they know anything that fast? The terrorists were caught escaping towards the border of Ukraine, according to Russia. We can't say things for certain from our seats, but Russia's number one enemies are Ukraine and NATO countries right now. The war against Ukraine hasn't decimated Russia's military capabilities like many predicted it would when it started. Now it's better than ever, like taking an old rusty car, after lubricating and replacing some pieces here and there, you put it to run some miles, and there you go. Their military industry is functioning again, they have thousands of officials and soldiers with real combat experience, more war vehicles like tanks and the capabilities to fix them when damaged, international military commerce relations, etc... NATO really messed up with this, one of the brilliant minds behind was the recently fired Victoria Nuland. Ukraine was gonna be first, then Georgia, and Taiwan was on the list, they want to mess with China too. China won't allow them to do anything either, but at all. With BRICS Russia and China have developed a good relationship, that's the worst that could have happened to the USA its European stupid puppets. France is barking like an annoying chihuahua because they are some of the most awful excolonizers of Africa, and Russia and China are helping some of these countries to cut ties with them and the USA. Then there is the Middle East, Biden's words, if we had not an Israel in there, we would have to invent it. Israel's existence and presence in that region respond to the way the USA sees the world as something they have to control, police, and dominate. Instead, Russia and China are developing a respectful relationship with Iran, and they hate that too. Lebanon hasn't been asleep the last twenty years and their military force is very considerable now. I don't know what Netanyahu is thinking, but those are not cornered like Hamas, if they fight them, IDF soldiers will die by thousands, and I don't think they are willing. The IDF men and women are trained to torment unarmed civilians and fire buildings from the sky, but they will shit in their pants against something big like Hezbollah. The north of Israel has already evacuated its civilians, which is a huge problem. The cherry on top is Yemen, they are firing all carrier ships that stop in Israel, which costs them billions, and the USA hasn't been able to do shit about that, because if they get close, they get fire too. Will they go to war against Yemen? What's new about that? That's been happening for years through Saudi Arabia.

Hamas has already agreed to the release of all hostages in exchange for a permanent ceasefire, this has been true for months, it was even in the plan presented by Biden, who said Israel had agreed. They must have lied to him, because they pulled out as soon as the plan was made public. If the IDF is still killing innocent Palestinian people and destroying cities like Rafah, is because that's exactly what they want to do. That's more important to them than the lives of the hostages, who could be all safe by now. Hamas won't kill them, they have only died at the hands of the IDF since this started. The IDF has not been effective in their rescue missions, they have achieved to save four. We know they don't care about the thousands of Palestiniens that died in the operation, I can even understand that, but other hostages died too, and hundreds of IDF soldiers have died by now. This wasn't necessary, because Hamas has agreed to return all hostages anyway, the price is a permanent ceasefire. The other stated objective was to finish with Hamas, which hasn't been successful either. They are mostly safely hidden in their tunnels and have shown they are able to attack and kill IDF soldiers and vehicles with their limited resources. If only the real objective wasn't to cause as much killing and destruction as they can, they would be out by now and with all their hostages getting safely home.

Well said. There's only one time when we'll stop denouncing atrocities. When they stop happening. It's not like we'll forget them anyway, but right now they just keep doing it, killing innocents and destroying a land they want to steal. This is where we still are.

It's not about an agenda, you're sick.

Again the same shit? It's not comfortable, it's sickening. Stop throwing food meant for hungry people, stop killing children, stop using human shields, and stop torturing hostages. It's not that hard to get, it's not about a stupid online hasbara debate.