Comment on Muslim states join European powers in backing Trump Gaza plan
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoIt’s funny that you complain about weasel wording but can’t see it in yourself or, more likely, allow it for yourself. Your claims that the Palestinians have to kill themselves or leave under this ‘plan’ doesn’t jive with reality.
Donnie knows that staying friends with the sunni states makes him a lot of money. A lot more money than he can ever make from the people that would give that up to add a small strip of land to Israel. Making the supposedly “fully behind Palestine” leaders of these countries lose face completely by having them backing this plan publicly and then shredding it will lose him a lot of money.
It’s much more profitable to continue their alliance. Removing the threat of Hamas in the same way as was done with Hezbollah makes everyone* happy and opens the opportunity to make money from it either way. They can say they saved the Gazans while Israel gets a security upgrade and hostages.
(* except the ultrazionists, which may have swing because they can drop the Israeli government but are still a rather small faction despite what people try to make you believe. If Hamas agree publicly, Bibi will go for elections before he’ll slap Trump with a 180 to please these bozo’s.)
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Why do you describe them as ‘muslim majority’, are you implying this a holy war?
Ah yes, the good ol’ “Sir, how dare you imply a religious conflict?!” smh
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m sorry do you not think this is weasely?
This is article 10. Please explain to me how my abbreviation does anything else than remove positive loading and noise.
21 days ago, the USA invited Palestine to Doha to negotiate. Then they bombed the Palestinian delegation with fighter jets. The Qatari prime minister said “The Qatar-US security and defence partnership is stronger than ever and continues to grow” the following day.
Article 13 enables the death of all Palestinians at the moment of Israel’s choosing. Israel has shown that their goal is the eradication of Palestinians.
This is not a religious conflict. You’re being orientalist. The Israeli’s are not religious, they are just racist. When western nations want emaciation, you don’t ascribe illogical motivations to them, you take it for granted that emancipation is worthwhile.
If you think this proposal has any balance, then go through it again but replace Gaza with Ukraine and Trump with Putin and see if you would consider it viable for Ukraine.
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Feel free to let me know where you’re reading that Palestinians should kill themselves. Trumps weaseling is not an excuse to follow his example.
There are eight sunni states that put themselves behind Donnie, including the most important ones. You can try to brush this off because they were already very friendly to him, but yeah, that’s the point.
Sure, and making Bibi publicly apologize to him and Donnie assure they would not allow it to happen again was offered to allow him to save face. Why else do you think they did that?
I don’t know which list they’ve sent you but in mine article 13 is about the disarmament of Hamas
Yeah, thanks for opening my eyes! I’ve just reread the history of the region and indeed, religious differences were never an issue there
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
I did. Article 13.
Trump’s exact phrasing:
“And other factions” means everyone. It means PFLP, it means everyone in PLO and everyone who is part of some political entity (e.g. a labour union) is directly called out and barred from public life, and then in the same breath all military infrastructure has to be surrendered. It doesn’t say “Hamas’ weapons”, it says all weapons.
If you live next to someone actively trying to kill you and you do not have any means to protect yourself, you will be killed. There are zero steps of assumption or inference required here. It is obviously immediately equivalent to death. You pretending like there’s a semantic difference is dishonesty.
What point were you trying to make that I missed? Is part of the Sunni religion that you must support Donald Trump? Is Donald Trump a Sunni prophet? If that is the point you’re making, then at some point you accepted and internalised some misinformation.
Do you have a recording of this apology? Since it was public, there must be a recording.
I’m not arguing the Qatari administration doesn’t care about saving face. I’m saying the administration isn’t deterred by having to participate in war crimes. Yes, obviously the optics of promising amnesty and initiating a dialogue in the guise of negotiation when your goal is assassination is very bad, and improving optics is worthwhile to the USA, Israel, and Qatar. But the tactic is demonstrably not beyond their evil. Genocide was already their baseline, so any optics management is an uphill battle, and they aren’t going to prioritise it too much.
You’re still being orientalist. It’s very off-putting. Would you accept a fraction of this attitude towards your own home?
couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
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You seem to want to derail the converstation to make it appear like I argue that it has something to do with the nature of their religion, but they could be worshipping the Holy Teapot as far as I’m concerned. If you want to go into why I think it’s mentionable that basically all of the important sunni states are on board I suggest you start by reading about the Abraham Accords and how that history ties in with what happened with Gaza.
His apology is public in the sense that they proudly and loudly proclaimed he did so before praising Qatar for supporting their plan. Whether he called him buddy or Susan isn’t really the relevant part here
I think it’s interesting that you’re turning from “religion has nothing to do with this” to something like this.
If someone were to say that ‘my home’ (as in the building I live in?) has a history of religious conflict I’d honestly just be stunned and ask them to give me some examples, because I don’t think there are.
If you mean ‘my home region’ then I’d say they’re entirely right: religious conflicts made people do horrible, horrible things to eachother around here, and it’s important to remember that.
But the words you’re using makes it sound more like you don’t honestly believe that there isn’t a religious angle to the conflict with Israel but instead that you think there should be some kind of taboo on it? Because any mention of it would hurt the feelings of those who live in the region?