"you must understand something: I’m an Israeli, and when I say what I say, I say it because I care for the state of #Israel. And this is in the interest of the state of Israel, to take these measures that I propose, not because I care for the Palestinians. I care for us.
[...]
we can’t afford to continue to live under circumstances where there are millions of people without rights, which we occupy without giving them the basic elementary rights that they deserve...
—Ehud Olmert, Vox interview
just to be clear:
if you read the whole interview, i hope one of your takeaways is that this bombing of #Gaza is a #policyFailure for the state of #Israel.
what policy you may ask?
Ehud Olmert says it right there, as plain as day:
"the only possible way to guarantee our future is to make an effort for a two-state solution, to pull out from the territories, and to have a smaller state."
Ben Gvir, the guy rubber-stamping the bombings, is the face of that policy failure.
"As soon as #Trump offered these comments ["we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin..."], historians (both professional and amateur) noted that they echoed the rhetoric of fascist leaders like Adolf #Hitler and Benito #Mussolini.
This raises a new question: Is Trump doing so knowingly — or is he simply following the same path those dictators walked?"
~@pbump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/13/trump-vermin-hitler-authoritarians/
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin just said (on Threads) that last night's results show that 90% of political reporting is garbage.
That's because 90% of "coverage" is speculation and opinion. An email from the NYT "The Tilt" assured me that it was a good night for Democrats but that doesn't mean anything for 2024.
Rubbish.
Elections tell us how voters feel. Polls do not and pundits do not.
One under-appreciated takeaway from yesterday's election results:
No one contested the results. No one called the election results fake or fraudulent. Losers all conceded gracefully.
More of this please! 🙏🏻
Via @emptywheel:
WOWOWOW.
It must really suck for all those people whose full time job it is to **report** on Congress who should have known better about this being an "offset."
Surely they're all crafting apologies for their subscribers right now?
Jake Sherman:
🚨 BREAKING -- CBO says the #House's #Israel aid bill is not offset at all.
Will add $12.5B to the deficit in the next decade.
Cuts to IRS will decrease revenue by $26.7B
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