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In reply to the discussion: Representative Rashida Tlaib, what exactly did you accomplish by refusing to endorse VP Harris? [View all]
LetMyPeopleVote
(183,632 posts)38. Netanyahu Gambled on a Trump Presidency. Will It Pay Off?
With trump back in power, Bibi will be free to do what he wants in Gaza
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https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts/2024-11-06/ty-article-podcast/netanyahu-gambled-on-a-trump-presidency-will-it-pay-off/00000193-01b9-dc77-adb3-9bbbf9ee0000
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "gamble" on extending the war in Gaza in anticipation of Donald Trump winning the U.S. election seems to have paid off, according to Haaretz senior military analyst Amos Harel.
In conversation with Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Harel said that Netanyahu "kept promising total victory, what he actually had was sort of a Forever War. It was not forever, but he was waiting for November, and for January 20 and for his friend Trump to be back in the White House."
What is the Israeli premier hoping to get out of his bet? Harel believes that in renewing the Bibi-Trump bromance, Netanyahu believes he can win U.S. support for measures that will stop his criminal trial - Trump after all, will certainly sympathize - and move ahead with the judicial coup that will damage Israeli democracy.
In the security and military arena, the Israeli leader aspires to achieve "more aggressive goals in the region, whether it's striking Iran or persuading the Americans to strike Iran, or pushing forward against the Palestinians and against Hezbollah and Lebanon."
In conversation with Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer, Harel said that Netanyahu "kept promising total victory, what he actually had was sort of a Forever War. It was not forever, but he was waiting for November, and for January 20 and for his friend Trump to be back in the White House."
What is the Israeli premier hoping to get out of his bet? Harel believes that in renewing the Bibi-Trump bromance, Netanyahu believes he can win U.S. support for measures that will stop his criminal trial - Trump after all, will certainly sympathize - and move ahead with the judicial coup that will damage Israeli democracy.
In the security and military arena, the Israeli leader aspires to achieve "more aggressive goals in the region, whether it's striking Iran or persuading the Americans to strike Iran, or pushing forward against the Palestinians and against Hezbollah and Lebanon."
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Representative Rashida Tlaib, what exactly did you accomplish by refusing to endorse VP Harris? [View all]
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
OP
palestinians oughta try and crash the party anyway.maybe talib could be their spokesperson nt
msongs
Aug 2025
#1
I doubt they will even get out of the airport with the orange dictator in charge.
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#3
Big difference. The mayor of a city and the President of the United States. Mamdani is going to be Mayor of NY,
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#5
No difference at all. You either endorse or you don't. It's a personal choice. nt
Autumn
Aug 2025
#10
More than a tragedy. One can completely dismantle our Democracy, and frankly is in the process of doing so
lostincalifornia
Aug 2025
#24
If you don't know the difference between a city mayor & the President of the US, it's hard to know what to say at all
Hekate
Aug 2025
#31
Not a bit of difference between an endorsement for a president or a congress person.
Autumn
Aug 2025
#11
You think she wanted the continued slaughter and starvation of her own people? I see. N/ T
AloeVera
Aug 2025
#42
I have no idea. She knew what she was doing. Did she not think that Trump would win?
LeftInTX
Aug 2025
#49
I have no idea. She knew what she was doing. Did she not think that Trump would win?
LeftInTX
Aug 2025
#50
What I really think is that implying a Palestinian Dem Rep is a psychopath who wants her own people erased....
AloeVera
Aug 2025
#56
As with Hillary, the election was lost on the margins, in places where the 3rd party candidate(s) won...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#35
Heh. "Endorsements don't mean much. " In this thread we have someone who will never forgive...
Hekate
Aug 2025
#45
It doesn't matter if you're "economically leftish" if you're nutso righty socially
gulliver
Aug 2025
#57
Trump presidency consequences (death, chaos, destruction, suffering) not important.
betsuni
Aug 2025
#25
And what about all those lazy white Christians who couldn't be bothered to vote? (/s)
Duncan Grant
Aug 2025
#36
MaddowBlog-Trump's new plan to 'take over' Gaza condemned as 'deranged'
LetMyPeopleVote
Aug 2025
#37