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  • Germany understands how self-destructive hate politics can be.

    Hamas is a hate movement. What has Hamas accomplished? Gaza now looks a lot like Berlin did in 1945. Do you rationalize Hitler the same way you rationalize Hamas? Or do you think the politics of hatred was the root cause of the destruction of Germany?

    Why do you rationalize support for a group that wants to eliminate Jews from what they consider to be their land with blood and soil narratives?

    Germany is a nice place to live now. It didn’t get like that by perpetuating hateful politics. How do we get to a point where Palestinians can recognize that hatred isn’t making their lives better as the German people did? It won’t be from people on the sidelines in the west promoting hatred. It looks to me that too many people in the west want yet another generation of Palestinians to march into the meat grinder to perpetuate their own personal hatred of Israel.


  • Unfortunately trust doesn’t work that way. When you betray alliances, trust is broken and it would take a fundamental change in the US political system and many decades to rebuild that trust.

    This isn’t Trump’s first term. This isn’t an interruption of America being it’s true self. Biden was the interruption, Trump is the new normal of what America is to the world. Even if a Democrat wins the next election (if there is one) no one can trust that the US won’t go back to someone like Trump in a future election.

    The US is at best an unreliable ally and at worst an adversary. That’s just how it is now.