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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Blinken has a higher chance of being assassinated by Israel than get them to accept a cease fire.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Blinken has zero credibility. He’s been hammering Palestinian negotiators in public and trying to speak soothingly to Netanyahu, all because he’s folllwing Biden’s orders. He’s literally putting Israeli lives over those of Americans.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How is he putting Israeli lives over Americans? You can say he favors Isreali lives over Palestinian ones, but at what point are we going to accept that Isreal is at war, not the US? We cannot force Isreal to just stop, it's not that simple.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

First of all, Israel is not at war. They're engaging in a one-sided genocide and SHOULD be forced to stop by the entire international community.

Second of all, some of the people killed by Israel in Gaza are related to Americans or are American citizens themselves, a notable example being Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

Israel is no friend to Americans. It's a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide and a laundry list of other war crimes using mostly American weapons and tens of billions in funding from the American government.

The US is in a unique position to save potentially hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives by cutting off all of that support and instead boycott, divest, and sanction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The guy who went to Kyiv a couple months ago and sang “Rockin’ In the Free World” at a bar? Yeah, he’s not out of touch at all. What a ghoul

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ffs, what a crude joke Blinken.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Don't pretend he's actually trying.