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  • If Netanyahu just says nope to Trump’s peace plan, why would he say yes to Biden’s?

    And Reagan didn’t achieve shit - Israel carried on building in the occupied territories regardless, and they only abandoned their war in Lebanon because it was going badly. Reagan did telephone the Israeli prime minister but the Israeli cabinet had already voted to stop the campaign that day, but of course Reagan wanted to take credit for that and announced how stern he was on the phone and the American news outlets of course delighted in fluff pieces praising the president for stopping the war. But that’s all it was. Fluff.

    So, no, your “American president can stop Israeli wars with one phone call” is BS,












  • I think you’re a closet racist who won’t give up comparing black people to violent dogs even when asked not to, and that you like to hide behind generalities.

    Three possibilities exist:

    1. that you accidentally made a racist argument comparing black UK citizens to violent dogs, and you didn’t realise, in which case on hearing that it might be offensive to compare black US citizens to violent dogs, you would obviously have realised, apologised and backtracked by now. These are the actions of someone who didn’t mean to offend.
    2. that you deliberately made a racist argument and you aren’t prepared to back down even when it’s pointed out to you. This is exactly how you’re behaving. For days now.

    I thought it was option 1 at first. It isn’t.

    The way you’re behaving reveals to me that it was your intent all along to make this false equivalence because you thought it was a cool own-the-libs arguing position. If that really isn’t you, I beg of you, take a step back and reconsider how you’re communicating.