Can Biden move the US Embassy back to Tel Aviv?

[Loren Pechtel]

For some reason yesterday's post didn't show up as a new message.

Note that there is nothing in that article to say that any land is being taken. It's about construction, the activists are using the word "annexation" but nothing says this isn't just infilling. If there was any actual border change the article would almost certainly have said so.

In practice it means Israel is less likely to give up the settlements--but that's meaningless as the chance of them giving them up was already basically zero. Israel was pressured into that once, it didn't help things. They're not going to make that mistake again.

So Israel can do "construction" on Palestinian land but Palestinians can't do construction on Palestinian land. Got it.

The cases that you are referring to is the common tactic of Palestinians doing construction on Israeli land, then going crying to the press when the inevitable happens.

 

[Gospel]

For some reason yesterday's post didn't show up as a new message.

Note that there is nothing in that article to say that any land is being taken. It's about construction, the activists are using the word "annexation" but nothing says this isn't just infilling. If there was any actual border change the article would almost certainly have said so.

In practice it means Israel is less likely to give up the settlements--but that's meaningless as the chance of them giving them up was already basically zero. Israel was pressured into that once, it didn't help things. They're not going to make that mistake again.

So Israel can do "construction" on Palestinian land but Palestinians can't do construction on Palestinian land. Got it.

The cases that you are referring to is the common tactic of Palestinians doing construction on Israeli land, then going crying to the press when the inevitable happens.

"Israeli land" "Palestinian land" Let's be honest here, none of it belongs to any of them.

 

[Gospel]

Secondly, there are a lot of other ways the US is biased towards Israel.

And most other countries are biased toward the Palestinians. But even the slight US bias in favor of our ally is seen as problematic.
Of course we need to be biased in favor of our allies. Was it a problem when US was biased toward West Germany and against the Soviet Block during the Cold War?

Yes. It's always a problem because nationalism which is based on a mixture of coordinates on earth & spoken language is bullshit made up by humans and not the world we exist in at large.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

The cases that you are referring to is the common tactic of Palestinians doing construction on Israeli land, then going crying to the press when the inevitable happens.

"Israeli land" "Palestinian land" Let's be honest here, none of it belongs to any of them.

Which doesn't address the fact it's a deliberate tactic. They waste money building things specifically for the propaganda value of them being torn down.

 

[Swammerdami]

"Israeli land" "Palestinian land" Let's be honest here, none of it belongs to any of them.

Isn't there some sort of cease-fire line agreed to by the United Nations and almost all the relevant powers? And aren't the "illegal" Israeli settlements clearly on the wrong side of that line?

This is all very well known, no? Don't make me waste a Google.

 

[laughing dog]

The cases that you are referring to is the common tactic of Palestinians doing construction on Israeli land, then going crying to the press when the inevitable happens.

"Israeli land" "Palestinian land" Let's be honest here, none of it belongs to any of them.

Which doesn't address the fact it's a deliberate tactic. They waste money building things specifically for the propaganda value of them being torn down.

As usual, your argument when it comes to anything to do with Israel is based on half-truths. It is usually the case that the specific land in dispute was either owned by Palestinians or used by them for decades, taken by the gov't of Israel without agreed upon compensation by the residents/users.

 

[Elixir]

Of course we need to be biased in favor of our allies.

...unless they're, say, Kurds that don't own any land. Then it's okay to just abandon them to slaughter on the battlefield.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

"Israeli land" "Palestinian land" Let's be honest here, none of it belongs to any of them.

Isn't there some sort of cease-fire line agreed to by the United Nations and almost all the relevant powers? And aren't the "illegal" Israeli settlements clearly on the wrong side of that line?

This is all very well known, no? Don't make me waste a Google.

There was an armistice line, but it doesn't mean anything since the Arabs have attacked twice since then.

The Arabs attack, they lose land, they stop shooting but won't make peace. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat.

Borders change on the battlefield or in peace agreements. The Palestinians want to change it by public opinion.