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Summary

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich endorsed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, stating it’s “time” to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank.

This comes as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu highlighted his alignment with Trump on the “Iranian threat.”

Tensions in Gaza and Lebanon have escalated following recent Israeli airstrikes, with regional leaders gathering in Riyadh to address Israeli actions.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to meet President Biden, though Biden’s influence on Israel may be limited following Trump’s win.

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[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

And notice how all the screeching about genocide has gone silent? Proves that they never actually cared.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tankies who didn't vote for Harris: We did it! We saved Palestine!

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works -4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Trump got more votes than every other party combined.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Perhaps the tankies should have voted for her multiple times

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My heart is broken for Palistine. While people were giving support day after day others were undermining them, lending support to a genocide.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (8 children)

And that’s why I didn’t feel like I was betraying Palestine by voting for Harris

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[–] maplebar@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I mean, they aren't wrong, are they?

Hamas is all but defeated, Hezbollah is also on their back foot, and even the model caliphate, Iran, has proven to be almost completely ineffective against Israel's defense system. Europe will make empty gestures about war crimes via the toothless ICC, and America is now totally controlled by the Republicans who never wanted a two-state peace process in the first place.

Israel has never in their short history had a better opportunity to go for the power play and deal with the Palestinians however they please, and under Trump we can expect that they won't get even a little bit of push back from the US, regardless of how harsh and violently they want to play it.

I expect a fucking bloodbath and a full annexation of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and possibly parts of southern Lebanon.

But hey, the American people have spoken, and I guess that's what they wanted.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (11 children)

To those cowards that didn't vote: This is on you, own it you sniveling weasels.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i hope all those lefties that refused to vote feel really accomplished now.

congrats, guys! you did it!

you installed a fascist dictator!

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[–] joker125@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (6 children)

LeopardsAteMyFace.

Unfortunately, this time around, for the Americans pretending to actually give damn on social meda, Gaza will be a parking lot soon.

Just as Trump proclaimed.

[–] beanlink@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

People are just getting the consequences of their actions or inaction. My empathy bucket for all of this has broken and I don’t plan on fixing it anymore either.

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Anyone who abstained on grounds of Harris's position on Gaza in my view have blood on their hands in what will not only assuredly he worse for Palestinians under Trump, but also the ongoing attempted genocide in Ukraine by Putin.

They may as well be Trump voters to me and I want nothing to do with them.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most of the people spreading that bullshit here were .ml tankies and probably wanted trump elected anyway.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 32 points 2 days ago

Worse than Trump voters actually. The vast majority of Trump voters have convinced themselves that what they're doing is good, actually, and that the democrats are evil whereas the people who abstained from voting for Harris literally had a choice of a candidate that campaigned on making their number one issue worse, and one that at least attempted to talk about peace deals and decided to just have no impact whatsoever, condemning hundreds of thousands plus to certain death. They claim to be on the side of ending human suffering when in actuality, they're little piss babies that are upset that their 10% of the population doesn't have complete and total control.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 108 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Who could have predicted this???

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 61 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Every UN country except Israel & the US.

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago

No they knew too, just were ok with it.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 93 points 2 days ago (15 children)

I remember commenting a couple months back on one of those "Arab-Americans not voting for Harris" posts, something along the lines of "it's your vote, but I think that you're going to find that you'd rather have Harris than Trump" and listing some past policy moves like the embassy in Jerusalem, and then someone downvoting and responding something along the lines of "identical candidates".

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I'll bet you anything that that user hasn't posted anything in almost a week. Just a hunch.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wait, why would it make any difference if Donald is elected?

I thought everyone was saying that Biden and Harris were doing nothing about the Palestinians.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 29 points 2 days ago

They said they wanted a two state solution. Trump has always been a burn it to the ground guy on that topic.

Biden is Kamala’s boss, so she toes his line while VP, that’s how the job usually works, unless you’re Cheney.

So playing the odds at least there’s a chance of survival with Kamala. With Trump it’s just nuked, but without actual nukes.

But hey, Kamala wasn’t good enough so let’s go with the nukes👍

Once again, human spite has the force to move mountains.

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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (30 children)

bUt hArRiS sUpPoRtS gEnOcIdE

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Both can be true, that she supports genocide but that Trump will be worse.

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That finance minister is a Kahanist (Israeli fascist), he doesn't just want to annex parts of the west bank. He wants to annex all of the west bank and Gaza while renaming both. As someone living in Israel I've seen how people are already calling the west bank "Judea and Sumera". He also wants to kill all Arabs and Muslims.

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