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>When I say they have similar goals I mean they are both trying to sway public option to support their agenda. Ok, but that's every politician (and many people

by Braxton1980 2y ago

>When I say they have similar goals I mean they are both trying to sway public option to support their agenda. Ok, but that's every politician (and many people as well). What their specific goal is matters. If one political party supports Israel 40% [4] and the other 80% then there's a difference. It's possible to support Israel and the Palestinians at the same time as well so it's not a clear "this or that" >yield similar results. If you are saying something like "Israel is still attacking Palestinians no matter who is elected" yes but to the same extent? What about aid to Palestine? In 2018 Trump cut $200m worth of aid to them [1] then in 2021 Biden restored it [2]. I can understand if the issue is that neither party are going as far as you might want but that doesn't really make them same and not voting [3] doesn't make sense if you care because it can only make things worse for the Palestinians Your argument reads like a general frustration with politics, which I get, but it still exists and will always exist. Not participating is the worse option imo. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-cuts-more-than-200-million-in-us-aid-to-palestinians-idUSKCN1L923C/ https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-cuts-more-than-2... [2] https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210407-us-restores-aid-to-palestinian-cut-by-trump https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20210407-us-restores... [3] Not accusing you here [4] Just a made a fake scale of support from 0 to 100 for the example

Retric 2y ago
> In 2018 Trump cut $200m worth of aid to them [1] then in 2021 Biden restored it [2]. I am not referring to US politicians here. This has nothing to do with republicans and democrats. I am referring to what propaganda from Israel and Palestine directly + groups paid and unpaid supporting their agenda. > Ok, but that's every politician Politicians don’t just talk about the same thing one may highlight poverty and another jobs etc. Here each side (Israel, Palestine) is taking about the same topic (location, war), trying to gain sympathy by talking about bad things that happen to specific people recently, etc > Your argument reads like a general frustration with politics If I was equally uninterested in politics and everyone was always talking about the deficit I might feel the same way. But this really does seem unusually similar.
- kurthr 2y ago
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Retric 2y ago

> In 2018 Trump cut $200m worth of aid to them [1] then in 2021 Biden restored it [2]. I am not referring to US politicians here. This has nothing to do with republicans and democrats. I am referring to what propaganda from Israel and Palestine directly + groups paid and unpaid supporting their agenda. > Ok, but that's every politician Politicians don’t just talk about the same thing one may highlight poverty and another jobs etc. Here each side (Israel, Palestine) is taking about the same topic (location, war), trying to gain sympathy by talking about bad things that happen to specific people recently, etc > Your argument reads like a general frustration with politics If I was equally uninterested in politics and everyone was always talking about the deficit I might feel the same way. But this really does seem unusually similar.

kurthr 2y ago
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