Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory Monday, saying that “the time has come” to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.

He made the comment a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a recorded statement that he has spoken three times with Trump since the election and that they “see eye to eye on the Iranian threat.

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      4 days ago

      Disgusting to blame the people who wouldn’t vote for the party that refused to say they would stop the genocide. How about you blame Kamala Harris and the DNC for never saying they would do anything about it? At which point is it the fault of the shot callers? What you unwittingly are saying is “the Dems could of won by promising to stop genocide in Palestine and they couldn’t do it”

      That says a lot more about them than it does the protest voters.

      I say this as someone who voted Kamala as a conscious lesser of two evils. I cannot blame anyone who decided they couldn’t vote for a slower genocide

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        It’s a two party system. There was no reasonable third option. You either pick the better of the two, or you don’t pick either and live with the consequences.

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          True, but I cannot be more mad at the people who have a moral problem with participating in such a system than at the people who are actively leading it. Like, you are giving all agency to the voters and none to the parties who are also moveable, influenceable human beings. Why?