Summary

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich endorsed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, stating it’s “time” to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu highlighted his alignment with Trump on the “Iranian threat.”

Tensions in Gaza and Lebanon have escalated following recent Israeli airstrikes, with regional leaders gathering in Riyadh to address Israeli actions.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to meet President Biden, though Biden’s influence on Israel may be limited following Trump’s win.

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      “Our strategy failed and our candidate lost. Quick! Start mocking people for caring about a genocide before they start getting ideas about blaming us for the mess we caused!”

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        A shitty campaign does not excuse you from sitting back and allowing fascism to take over. You share in the blame.

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          A shitty campaign does not excuse you from sitting back and allowing fascism to take over.

          I did no such thing. I place the blame on Trump voters, Harris, and the DNC

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              Yeah, I’m going to take zero blame for the outcome of these past three presidential elections as I held my nose and voted for the terrible slew of (D) candidates each time which resulted in two losses and one near loss. When are you going to hold the party accountable for their performance and unwillingness to support electable candidates?

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                That’s not what I said.

                I said:

                I wonder if you ever admit fault or if it’s always someone else.

                Since you didn’t answer, I’m going to have to assume you don’t ever admit fault.

                When are you going to hold the party accountable for their performance and unwillingness to support electable candidates?

                I do. There is lots of blame to go around and you share in it by sitting back and allowing a genocidal fascist dictator to take power because of your ideological arrogance.

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        “Dems ran a shit out-of-touch campaign, obviously this absolves all of us who were beating the ‘Don’t vote against the fascist’ drum as hard as we could.”

        Believe it or not, and I understand this is quite unsettling for people with a simplistic view of the world, blame can be shared over multiple parties. Yes, really!

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          It sounds like you’re still running their campaign for them as you gain enjoyment by mocking those opposed to supporters and enablers of genocide regardless of which tribe they belong to. That was a conscious choice from her, and this is a conscious choice from you to continue your support. She was trying to win an election, but what’s your excuse?

          Please scour through my post history and find where I’ve ever told anyone how they should vote.

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            She was trying to win an election, but what’s your excuse?

            Trying to avoid additional genocides here at home, and being rightfully upset that me, my friends, and loved ones are now in the sights of genocide in addition to the Palestinian genocide getting worse and Ukrainian genocide being enabled by Trump and a potential invasion of Taiwan by the CCP?

            I guess that’s all small stuff compared to virtue signaling over Palestine. Gotta maintain that spiritual attitude towards politics.

            Please scour through my post history and find where I’ve ever told anyone how they should vote.

            I don’t know if you, personally, were banging the don’t vote drum, and expressed no opinion on whether YOU were or not. You have, however, jumped in on a comment mocking those who thought that abstaining was in any way a moral choice and saw fit to equate that to ‘mocking people for caring about genocide’.