1y ago

The message for all these campus protests

The message should be for the US to stop sending money to Israel. Israel isn't going to stop this shit in the name of "peace". The best any US citizen can do is constantly berate the US for sending money to Israel. Biden needs to know he'll lose to the orange man in November if he doesn't take note. When you protest you need a clear demand, and the US could definitely stop sending money to Israel.

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"Don't do the thing we don't like or we'll help someone get elected who will do worse bad things we don't like (and doesn't care if we protest)."
Yeah, solid plan.
- I hate this two party system and plurality voting as well, I'm not the one who decided it.
  
  Didn't say I liked it, but it's what we got. Holding the country hostage by refusing to vote for the clearly better candidate is not going to make things any better and has every chance of making things much, much worse.
  
  Winner takes all, first pass the post are the bad voting systems.
  Plurality voting, instant runoff, ranked choice, are the solutions
- Yes that's good messaging too. Divest from Israel is good as well, it's about the money, and they should demand both as both are clear demands.
Israel is under constant attack by terrorist organizations and states whose official goal is the destruction of Israel. One of these terrorist organizations has over a 100 Israeli hostages. It's not about "peace", it's about "existence". The message should be about finding a long lasting way to co-exist in peace and good faith
- I agree with the point that most Arab nations have accepted that Israel is here to stay. That said, as long as Israel is consistently attacked by terrorist organizations along multiple borders, not to mention the hostages, means that the fear for its existence has yet to run its course. I hope to never hear of the far-right Israeli government again, nothing more to add here. I believe the Palestinians are more likely to achieve their statehood if they also normalize their relations with Israel, accept Israel's existence, denounce Hamas and other terrorist organizations, and give up on the idea of a right of return (I understand this last point is highly controversial). I don't agree that there's a genocidal colonial project in Palestine and I still think that a peaceful co-existence is possible. Both sides must negotiate in good faith and accept concession.
- I agree, lasting peace would has to start with not wanting to wipe the other side off the map. Hopefully one day we will agree that it is the Palestinians that must accept the existence of Israel. Hamas’ ideology is simple: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”.
- Israel was created in 1948.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
  
  Thank you.

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