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there is no plan. i have been right all along about this.

NBC News/Survey Monkey poll | 3/30-4/13 Who do you sympathize more with? 🇮🇱Israelis 50% 🇵🇸Palestinians 50% —— 🟦Democrats 🇵🇸Palestinians 75% 🇮🇱Israelis 25% (Net +50 Palestinians) — 🟥Republicans 🇮🇱Israelis 81% 🇵🇸Palestinians 19% (Net +62 Israelis)

Je suis honoré d’avoir reçu Madame l’Ambassadrice de l’État de Palestine en France. Cette rencontre, hautement symbolique, intervient après la reconnaissance par la France de l’État de Palestine. Elle a permis d’évoquer la situation au Proche-Orient, mais aussi de renforcer les coopérations concrètes engagées entre Paris et les territoires palestiniens. La Ville de Paris est pleinement mobilisée : soutien aux populations civiles, accès aux services essentiels, appui aux acteurs de terrain. Ces coopérations se traduisent par des actions concrètes et durables de solidarité. Face à une crise humanitaire d’une gravité extrême, Paris continuera d’agir et réaffirme une position claire : celle du respect du droit international, de la protection des civils et de la nécessité d’une paix juste et durable pour le peuple palestinien. 📸 Guillaume Bontemps - Ville de Paris

Je suis honoré d’avoir reçu Madame l’Ambassadrice de l’État de Palestine en France. Cette rencontre, hautement symbolique, intervient après la reconnaissance par la France de l’État de Palestine. Elle a permis d’évoquer la situation au Proche-Orient, mais aussi de renforcer les coopérations concrètes engagées entre Paris et les territoires palestiniens. La Ville de Paris est pleinement mobilisée : soutien aux populations civiles, accès aux services essentiels, appui aux acteurs de terrain. Ces coopérations se traduisent par des actions concrètes et durables de solidarité. Face à une crise humanitaire d’une gravité extrême, Paris continuera d’agir et réaffirme une position claire : celle du respect du droit international, de la protection des civils et de la nécessité d’une paix juste et durable pour le peuple palestinien. 📸 Guillaume Bontemps - Ville de Paris

It's fine to be a boring two-state solution person, but if you're unable to engage with the reality on the ground--which is that the majority of Palestinians do not want two states, because they still want to destroy Israel--you can't reasonably claim to be a serious person.

I just want to clarify, because I'm still getting messages of "support" for telling Matt "how it is," that I wasn't really trying to criticize him. I get the impression he's a serious, honest person. I'm sure that for him, it really is about the Israeli government's manifold faults. And his list of gripes probably overlaps with my own. I'm absolutely convinced, and have said as much many times, that under Netanyahu Israel has lost far more than its enemies or some disinterested audiences radicalized by the propaganda war. It's lost good and longstanding friends, and it lost them by choosing to be grossly, recklessly incompetent and sometimes unnecessarily cruel in both policies and messaging. So far we're in agreement. My point of disagreement with Matt is that these massive failures of the Israeli government are nevertheless woefully insufficient to explain the unique scale, duration and frenzy of the anti-Israel campaign. It's simply unprecedented. Even if you assume the absolute worst of Israel -- literal genocide and the worst government imaginable -- it wouldn't be enough to explain it, for the simple reason that worse wars with much higher civilian death tolls carried out by allies of the West using Western weapons and pushed by much worse governments bent on carrying out actual genocides (cue the tiresome mob) never drew a tenth or a thousandth of this response. That's a simple fact. I don't know how to get around it. What other conflict, or even crime or atrocity (let's concede everything to show how even that doesn't close the gap), with a death toll five times Gaza's (like Yemen), could so saturate and define political discourse that it would produce the Tucker and Mamdani phenomena simultaneously, and similar shifts in Holland and Britain and Spain? What other conflict would see in the activist heart of the campaign a demand to relitigate the 1940s (erm, not the whole 1940s, only the part where Jews became safe) or demand to destroy a people? There something else at play here. Something unique to this conflict and the role it plays in Western and Muslim-world psychologies. Is it really a coincidence -- asking for some friends -- that this totally unique response happens to be landing on the Jews? The replies below will now fill with the usual endless rage-tweets from people who are definitely not bigots, they've just woken up to how the Jews control America and can't restrain their bloodlust, and since Jews are so objectively evil, it isn't antisemitism to obsessively hound them everywhere they may be found. Because of Israeli misdeeds, that's why. Matt really does despise some Israeli actions. I believe him. He's a mentally and morally healthy person. But he's not seeing the larger phenomenon around him -- which Israeli misdeeds alone can't explain.