NoneOfUrBusiness

Always does not mean "since I started paying attention" but regardless...

Huh? Are we even talking about the same conflict? This has been the case since 2005 when Israel disengaged from Gaza.

why do you think the violence has been at such a lower level than Gaza since the rapes and murders of Oct 7th?

Uh... Because there's no resistance worth mentioning in the West Bank? They don't need to do much for their colonial project in the West Bank, but if settlers tried entering Gaza they'd just be shot.

And why did that coincidentally change days after the election, with Smoterich now directing "the start of professional work to prepare the necessary infrastructure to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria."

It didn't change, but that aside he might've felt emboldened to say it out loud, but we still don't know if the rest of the Israeli government will allow that. In case they do anytime soon, the only conclusion would be that there were plans for such an action from before the election.

Yes, because violence in the West Bank has always been lower-level than the violence in Gaza. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make is.

Israel has been doing this shit for over a year, and less strictly for over 70 years, so not really.

So first I never said anything about Ukraine. Second,

netenyahu has already expressed plans to accelerate the genocides he's enacting.

He's been accelerating it for a while, what with the ethnic cleansing of North Gaza and all that. We're seeing the next stage in a genocide that was accelerating anyway.

your ignorance is embarrassing to observe. literally every cabinet pick so far has been a hardcore pro-israel or pro-russia pick.

I said nothing about Russia so I'll just ignore that part, but pro-Israel? What is he going to do that Blinken and Biden didn't?

They're the same as long as this war continues. Trump is worse in "peace" time, but it doesn't seem we're getting that any time soon.

2% of what exactly?

I mean that's how Obama won his first term so probably yes.

Elections don't negate the most corrupt governments in the world.

I mean yes they do have a massive corruption problem, and (this is important) they're working on it. And either way it remains a fact that they have a much more democratic government than Russia.

Uh.... Here you go.

Ukraine is a free and fair democracy??

Literally yes? How do you think Zelensky, a comedy actor, got elected?

Israel have been aggressively expanding in the West Bank since October 7, and intensified their campaign at around the same time they started the war with Lebanon. There are no red lines.

So first, I can't actually find anything about this except Smotrich pushing for annexation so do you have a source that says they're going to go forward with annexation? Now second, Smotrich started yapping about annexing West Bank settlements (not the whole West Bank; if Israel did that they'd have to give Palestinians rights) literally a day or two after the election, meaning he already had plans for something similar before then. You don't just wake up and start taking steps towards annexing an occupied territory that's not how that works.