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[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 55 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There seems to be this thing where the mainstream media tries to appease anti-murder voters by insisting that Joe "I Am A Zionist" Biden is really trying hard to find a solution to this and he'll get there eventually, but in the mean time his hands are tied and he has to keep picking up the tab for Israel. But like, really guys, any minute now he's gonna stop because secretly he agrees with you that this is wrong. He just can't stop now. Like, he could. He could just stop sending them money. But he can't. But he will soon. But not now. Because he can't.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Doesn't congress send the money? Also although I think Zionism is inherently flawed thinking, but you can be a zionist and not support genocide. Nothing about being a Zionist implies the state must grow or do anything in particular other than being a Jewish ethnostate.

A two state solution was and is the only way there will be a modicum of peace, and no, it will not be fair.

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

He bypasses congress to send military aid.

Also how do you get an ethnostate on other peoples land without genocide?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't alter the headline. He bypasses Congress by not sending aid but rather by selling the weapons. Israel is paying for it, even if it's wholesale prices on ammunition components.

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's literally not, like actually. Google it.

That said, dude didn't illegally bypass Congress, they gave the president that authority in the 70s and expanded upon it under bush. I don't agree with it, I think he shouldn't have done it and that it shouldn't even be possible. It is absolutely something to legitimately critique Biden for, but it is not bypassing congress in some loophole thing.

[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

It literally is, like materially. My point wasnt that he is doing something illegal, my point is that he is aiding Israel by giving them bombs at discount prices.

[–] rhamzeh@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The existence of that ethnostate was built on the nakba and the continued subjugation of Palestinians and their Jewish allies.

Want an ethnostate? Go take it from Germany. God knows they deserve it at least.

Zionism requires the wiping of a culture and people to replace it with another. There is no form of Zionism which is not genocidal.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Zionism needs a Nakba and an Apartheid state, otherwise it wouldn't be Zionism. So no, being Zionist means in one way or another supporting genocide.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Zionism in 2024 is the belief that nobody other than Ashkenazi Jews are allowed to live in Palestine. However you get to that point, well that's just secularism! /s