I am less persuaded. The demand is for US to stop supporting the ongoing bombing of innocents. Is 30,000 dead and 70,000 wounded and untold many being starved as a matter of policy not enough? The cease fire call is the demand that this slaughter stop *and not resume again.* and that seems like a fine demand. So first stop all support of the slaughter. Second get aid in asap. This means move IDF out of the way as it is stopping all relief efforts. Third, it means the Palestinians, not Biden nor democrats, get to choose who represents them moving forward. If they choose Hamas, so be it. This is what an immediate cease fire means. And those against this, people like Biden, are comfortable supporting Palestinian genocide. So yes, an immediate cease fire now.
Harsh but thoughtful analysis. I’m mainly persuaded.
Talking truth to power is sometimes easier, sometimes harder. I wouldn’t want to claim that the left generally does this well no matter the context — leftists have their sacred cows too around which they gladly accept rhetorical deception and self-deception.
That aside, there is no equivalency between right and left here. The left obviously does a much better, though incomplete, job of speaking truth to power.
I am less persuaded. The demand is for US to stop supporting the ongoing bombing of innocents. Is 30,000 dead and 70,000 wounded and untold many being starved as a matter of policy not enough? The cease fire call is the demand that this slaughter stop *and not resume again.* and that seems like a fine demand. So first stop all support of the slaughter. Second get aid in asap. This means move IDF out of the way as it is stopping all relief efforts. Third, it means the Palestinians, not Biden nor democrats, get to choose who represents them moving forward. If they choose Hamas, so be it. This is what an immediate cease fire means. And those against this, people like Biden, are comfortable supporting Palestinian genocide. So yes, an immediate cease fire now.
Harsh but thoughtful analysis. I’m mainly persuaded.
Talking truth to power is sometimes easier, sometimes harder. I wouldn’t want to claim that the left generally does this well no matter the context — leftists have their sacred cows too around which they gladly accept rhetorical deception and self-deception.
That aside, there is no equivalency between right and left here. The left obviously does a much better, though incomplete, job of speaking truth to power.