Harmonica 📟

Nepo baby @Casablancas_J of @thestrokes says that American Zionists get the benefits of white privileged people but talk like they are Black people during slavery. A horrid take from someone who truly gets the benefits of white privilege - and uses it to sh*t on Jews.

My take on @ezraklein's Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’: 1. Ezra is new to this. History didn’t begin when he started following the news. Before Palestinians turned to violence in 1987, there were no fences or checkpoints between Israelis and Palestinians. Today’s reality is the result of a century of Arab refusal to accept Zionism. Today's war in Lebanon is because the Lebanese never stopped violence originated from their land unto Israel, even after Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. 2. In a talk show with no counterpoint, Ezra presents the “One-State Reality” as a fresh insight. It isn’t. The binational one-state idea is how Palestine was invented in 1920 and failed. When two-state Oslo became a thing in 1993, Edward Said and Palestinian-Americans rejected the two-state solution from day one and insisted on reviving 1920. 3. The real problem: one state has zero buy-in among Palestinians in the Arab world. They want a single Arab, Muslim state from the river to the sea named Palestine. Jews would be a tolerated minority with token status, like Christians in Iraq, Syria, and the territories. 4. Collective punishment isn’t the result of Israel’s wars with Hamas and Hezbollah. Palestinians and Lebanese have failed to build functioning states and instead became stateless zones run by violent militias. No outsider can fix this. The solution starts with Palestinians building a viable polity. 5. The conflict isn’t about territory. It’s about narrative: many Muslims cannot accept Jewish sovereignty on any part of “Muslim land.” That’s why Arafat and Abbas never dropped the “right of return.” They envision a Judenrein Palestine on 1967 lines and a demographically Arabized Israel on 1948 lines. This is why two-state failed, continues to fail. 6. A binational state is not progressive—it’s what the British tried in 1920. It failed then and will fail now. Jews and Arabs each want their own ethnic nation-state. Forcing an American-style civic contract on them is colonial Orientalism. 7. These points should have been in Ezra’s episode. But perhaps he wasn’t looking for a debate—just an echo-chamber info op. nytimes.com/video/opinion/…

Ashleigh Banfield of @NewsNation gives commentary into her husband‘s JetBlue Airways saga, without notice they dropped everyone at an obscure airport 100 miles away from their actual destination where her husband was supposed to get his rental car, when they were deplaning an announcement came over the coms stating they would give them a $100 voucher towards transportation to their actual destination. When the over 100 passengers arrived in the wee hours of the morning they found all of the airline and rental car kiosks closed leaving the men women and children on that flight to fend for themselves, when Banfield‘s husband spent hours on the phone trying to get the voucher that was promised to help offset the more than $200 Uber ride he managed to get in the middle of the night, the JetBlue rep said “sorry there’s nothing further I can do for you, you can stay on the line and take a survey and voice your concerns there” SAY WHAT🤬