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The US is not a credible ceasefire mediator, but a genocide partner
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I think your ideas are quite flawed here. You're thinking like three parties sitting down at a table and talking, but that's not how this works. You're also making logic leaps without any evidence, which is just foolish.
Let's use Occam's Razor to see what's more likely here:
I think most reasonable people would probably say it's the second choice. The you might say "Well, then the US should just stop supplying them", to which most would probably agree...except all the people who don't. So then you're pissing off the other side of the aisle.
It's a lose-lose for the US here for anything except a ceasefire. Suggesting otherwise makes zero sense whatsoever unless you have a deep seeded belief the US is out to get Palestinians for some reason, which would also be pretty insane, and I've seen no evidence of that either.
And Democrats would rather be wrong than popular.
Don't think that has anything to do with it, because if I'm reading your statement correctly, and that "The Democrats" are doing the least popular thing, you're wrong.
The Democrats would be worried about the electors in the US. This is just based on super generically available data, and making an assumption about allegiances, BUT:
So if you're saying that "The Democrats" are all in lock-step and support the same things - which is demonstrably false - then they are doing the popular thing.
Whether or not you're a Democrat and supporting what is happening would probably be the whole "Genocide is bad" thing, which I'd like to believe most people agree with.
What do Jews have to do with israel?
Are you kidding?
I'm sure it's popular among people you agree with.
And probably the same for you, but if you're just being snarky and not outwardly saying "The Democrats are doing the wrong, because it's clearly unpopular.", I'm showing you that you'd be wrong.
Netanyahu's genocide is unpopular among Democratic voters. You said that yourself.
I didn't say those words at all. I said that I, as a person, would hope that the majority of people think "Genocide is bad". There is a large Pro-Israel segment of the population in the US who seem to be fine with what is happening right now, though I never said anything about their political leanings.
I'd like to believe that the majority of Democrats abhor Netanyahu and his bullshit, and I'd say the number of them that purposely skipped his stupid speech (and those that showed in protest) to Congress was a show of that.