Trump would very much be worse for Gazans than literally any Democrat.
I’m hard pressed to see how. Obama was at least milquetoast on Israel carpet-bombing Lebanon, but Joe Biden clearly does not give a fuck and has done nothing except to enable the Netanyahu regime since he took office. There’s very little more that Trump could do that would be worse than what Biden’s already endorsed now that we’re in fully on ethnic cleansing mode.
Trump moved the embassy to Jerusalem lol.
We’ve been cutting checks on the order of $4B/year to the Israel government to arm up against its neighbors since the Bush Jr administration. Trump moving the embassy did nothing substantive. What really changed was the Israeli internal policy of arming settlers in the Golan Heights, which inflamed tensions in the West Bank, while tightening restrictions on import/export trade in Gaza to the point of actively starving out the population.
In August 2019, former prime minister Ehud Barak told Israeli Army Radio that Netanyahu’s “strategy is to keep Hamas alive and kicking … even at the price of abandoning the citizens [of the south] … in order to weaken the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.”
The logic underlying this strategy, Barak said, is that “it’s easier with Hamas to explain to Israelis that there is no one to sit with and no one to talk to.”
Neither Obama nor Trump nor Biden has made any material effort to discourage these policies. Unlike Reagan in 1982 (fucking Reagan of all people!), who threatened to withdraw support from Israel unless it backed out of Lebanon, no President of either party since appears interested in reining Israel in.
You think the man that literally included collective punishment as part of his initial campaign platform wouldn’t be worse for Palestinians than Biden, regardless of the tepidness of the current response that at a bate minimum at least gives lip service to concepts of proportionality and the avoidance of civilian casualties?
I’m hard pressed to see how. Obama was at least milquetoast on Israel carpet-bombing Lebanon, but Joe Biden clearly does not give a fuck and has done nothing except to enable the Netanyahu regime since he took office. There’s very little more that Trump could do that would be worse than what Biden’s already endorsed now that we’re in fully on ethnic cleansing mode.
We’ve been cutting checks on the order of $4B/year to the Israel government to arm up against its neighbors since the Bush Jr administration. Trump moving the embassy did nothing substantive. What really changed was the Israeli internal policy of arming settlers in the Golan Heights, which inflamed tensions in the West Bank, while tightening restrictions on import/export trade in Gaza to the point of actively starving out the population.
This, while Netanyahu undermined the Palestinian Authority in order to push more local support to Hamas
Neither Obama nor Trump nor Biden has made any material effort to discourage these policies. Unlike Reagan in 1982 (fucking Reagan of all people!), who threatened to withdraw support from Israel unless it backed out of Lebanon, no President of either party since appears interested in reining Israel in.
You think the man that literally included collective punishment as part of his initial campaign platform wouldn’t be worse for Palestinians than Biden, regardless of the tepidness of the current response that at a bate minimum at least gives lip service to concepts of proportionality and the avoidance of civilian casualties?
Guarantee his first action will be something like barring Palestinians from immigration via executive order.
Afterwards, he might put existing Palestinian immigrants into camps if they protest his actions.