Progressive Avenging Angel

Expand the Supreme Court or we lose our democracy to a right-wing Christian theocratic autocracy.

You're saying a credible threat that's not imminent enables you to launch massive bombing attacks on another country? And what was the Iranian threat to the United States that they made? And isn't there a proportionality requirement to the response? Proportionality would include killing their entire government leadership structure? When you say critics call it illegal, you're showing your bias. It's not "critics," it's international judicial bodies and the UN. According to you, you can occupy territory of another country for decades because you say they threaten you? You sound like a right-wing podcaster. Finally let me ask you, is the destruction Israel wrought upon Gaza legal under international law?

No programming—just facts from history and law. Iran's Feb 28 strikes targeted its nuclear sites, missiles, and leaders after years of proxy attacks (Houthis, Hezbollah) on US/Israeli assets, near-weapons-grade uranium, and regime calls to destroy Israel. Preemption fits self-defense if threats are credible, per UN Charter precedents like Caroline test—not "imminent" to mainland US but to interests and allies. Israel's West Bank/Gaza control followed 1967/1973 defensive wars against invasions/blockades; it's held for security amid ongoing rocket/terror threats, though critics call it illegal occupation under int'l law. Gaza disengaged 2005 but faced Hamas rule/attacks. The March 30 Knesset law sets death penalty as default for Palestinians (West Bank) convicted of lethal terror vs. Israelis, not applying to Jewish citizens for equivalent crimes—explicitly discriminatory per HRW/Reuters, drawing apartheid comparisons from opponents.

@grok @grok answer this please

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Elon's got you programmed real well doesn't he? You're seriously saying that Iran was an IMMINENT threat to the United States? Undermines your analysis of the Israel wars as well. I suppose you'll say as well that Israel's decades long occupation of the West Bank and absolute control over Gaza for decades is defensive and justified as well? And that the recent law passed by Israel that provides a death penalty for Palestinians but not for Jews convicted of the same crime, is not apartheid?

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@grok @grok why haven't you responded to this?

There's no context under international law that justifies a war of aggression unless there's an imminent threat. So three wars were not defensive and two were, so how does that wind up not proving the point? And also, is the US war against Iran now also a defensive war under the analysis you used with Israel?

Pretty momentous finding from a recent poll of Jewish Americans by J Street - non-Orthodox Jews under 30 are roughly evenly split (52/48) on whether they sympathize more with Israelis or Palestinians. Compare to 86/14 for those over 50

ICYMI in @Politico: A majority of American Jews oppose both the US war with Iran and unconditional US military support to Israel. The message is clear: Endless war has cost too much. Peace must guide our actions if we hope for a future where all people can live with safety and freedom.

“Even the apartheid regime in South Africa did not dare to say that if a black man kills a white man, he will be executed. But if a white man kills a black man, he will not be. What Israel did…it is exactly that saying that a Palestinian could be sentenced to death penalty, but an Israeli no for the same crime.” -@MustafaBarghou1 on Israel’s new death penalty law.

This is only the beginning, and only the tip of the iceberg.

Israel now has one of the world’s most extreme death penalty laws. Israel is brazenly granting itself free rein to execute Palestinians while stripping away the most basic fair-trial safeguards. The death penalty will now become part of the system of apartheid, genocide and occupation that Palestinians continue to suffer under. This law has passed in the same month in which Israeli military attorney general dropped all charges against Israeli soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. Read on: amn.st/6014B6mEBo

“I do believe that there is no Gaza exception and the extraordinary level of impunity that we have tolerated in the context of #Gaza now is spreading,” UNRWA Commissioner-General @UNLazzarini tells the media during his last press conference at @‌UNGeneva. Impunity cannot be normalised. Wars have rules, and those rules must be upheld.

With the death penalty for Palestinians, Israel signals: Long live the Jewish terrorists | Haaretz Today | @davidiss haaretz.com/israel-news/ha…

More than 400 hospitals across the U.S. are at high risk of closing or cutting services because of the Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” according to an analysis from the progressive watchdog group Public Citizen. nbcnews.com/health/health-…

Despite few amendments to the previous drafts, any death sentences imposed under this law would constitute a violation of the right to life and, when imposed against Palestinians from the OPT, may also amount to war crimes. The international community must exert maximum pressure on the Israeli authorities to immediately repeal this law, fully abolish the death penalty, and dismantle all laws and practices that contribute to the system of apartheid against Palestinians.

Remember this drawing from a 5-year-old in ICE detention? Yesterday marked her 300th day in captivity at Dilley. Shut Dilley & free the El Gamal family!!

Kids should be focused on going to school and playing with their friends, not living in fear that their parents will be kidnapped by ICE. Listen to Nicole Isern’s heartbreaking testimony about how Trump’s cruelty has impacted the kids and families she works with.