Israeli forces clashed with Hamas militants across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Israeli military said, deepening its engagement in the decimated enclave even as the Palestinian death toll from relentless airstrikes in 12 weeks of war soared higher.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported Saturday that 165 people had been killed in Israeli airstrikes and artillery attacks in the previous 24 hours, adding to the ministry’s toll of more than 21,500 people killed in Gaza since the war began with the Oct. 7 Hamas-led raids into Israel.
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This reporter seems to have a significantly different definition of “pressure” than I do.
I dunno if Biden knows how to pressure beyond vaguely stern tweetweets
They misspelled “Using US Weaponry” in the first half of the headline.
Strange.
Selling them $150M worth of weapons is pressure, eh?
There’s no pressure until we either stop exporting weapons, or limit it to iron dome projectiles.
I don’t think the US’ “We have your back!” actual actions add up to something in the same universe as “pressure”.
The US posture in all this has been the equivalent of somebody watching a bully pummelling a toddler, whose response to it is say “naughty boy” to the bully with a fake frown whilst winking and passing him a baseball bat.
People really shouldn’t believe the words coming out of the mouth of US politicians and their hired minions - the only ones that aren’t liars by trade and sociopaths by nature lack the stomach for sticking knives in people’s backs to get that high in the first place or if they actually get there as a combination of merit and luck, soon leave.
Sadly the Nazi-supporting US Administration has a veritable army of usefull idiots going around saying “Yeah but you have to vote Biden because otherwise you get Trump”. Sounds a lot like the kind of “better accept that things are as they are, don’t make waves and work within the system” kind of messaging you get in dictatorships with a “voting system” everybody knows is nothing more than Theatre - the subservient trying to convince others to also bend over.
Greatest “democracy” in the World my arse.
saying “Yeah but you have to vote Biden because otherwise you get Trump”.
This is true, though.
The way the US elects presidents is terrible. It’s basically certifiably insane.
There’s an election in each state. The winner of that statewide election gets all the electoral college votes for that state. If no candidate gets an absolute majority in the electoral college, then it goes to the House of Representatives. However, each state delegation gets one vote.
Functionally, that means that if the election goes to the House, the Republican wins.
Third parties have never done well in the US because the system structurally disadvantages them. This is mostly because the US was the first modern democracy, and social choice theory was in its infancy when the constitution was written.
If you want to vote Biden out in favor of someone more progressive, the only chance of that is to primary him.
The winner of that statewide election gets all the electoral college votes for that state.
Which is actually optional. States can split them (but iirc only 2 out of 50 do…). It just doesn’t make that much sense in a two-party-system mostly split in the middle. That’s the bigger problem.
