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Jul 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
To blunt increasing pressure from the US left and the intl humanitarian and medical community, centrists (and the WH) embraced a “temporary pause” in Nov 2023 that explicitly did NOT end the “war.” This pause was later rebranded a “ceasefire” by Biden and Dem media in Feb 2024
tbc this REMAINS the mainstream liberal opinion. Instead of explicitly supporting the “war on Hamas” indefinitely (because this became impossible) the “ceasefire” rebrand demanded “Hamas have no role in post war Gaza” while nominally calling for a ceasefire which makes zero sense
Most Dems continue opposing a ceasefire as the term is traditionally understood they just rebranded the term to mean “Hamas surrender” and no one in our media ever bothers to point this out. It’s why activist demands shifted from calling for a ceasefire to supporting arms embargo
No one in polite company wants to acknowledge that an actual ceasefire would allow Hamas to have some role in “post war Gaza” because this sounds bad on CNN. I explained this dynamic last Oct columnblog.com/p/the-horrors-…

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Jul 31
If the word genocide “turns off allies” they shouldn’t be allies. it’s the conclusion of HRW, MSF, Amnesty and virtually all genocide scholars to say nothing of Palestinians who correctly assessed Israel’s motives while JStreet was threatening lawmakers calling for a ceasefire
If Gaza isn’t a genocide then the term literally has no meaning. If one wants to argue that the term itself ought to be retired they are welcome to make that argument but it cannot exist and also not describe Israel’s actions in Gaza. This is not remotely a credible position.
That calling Gaza a genocide makes some people uncomfortable is a product of racism and chauvinism. It’s about coddling the feelings of bigots, dipshits and—most of all—those directly responsible for mass murder. This can never be a reason to use a word or not use a word.
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Jul 31
Once again for the millionth time, demanding as a condition of a “ceasefire” one side surrender and disarm is not a call for a ceasefire. It’s a reiteration of surrender terms and an argument in favor of the pretext for the genocide (“war on Hamas”) to continue indefinitely
Liberals parroting this nonsensical position are being cowardly and very dishonest. this have your cake and eat it too-ism is the primary reason a consensus for an actual ceasefire cannot be reached. It’s an evasion, a cop out and a complete dodge of the central issue.
Palestinian militants will not disarm. And the collective punishment and mass starvation strategy is predicated on forcing them to do so via medieval siege warfare tactics. To reaffirm this as a condition of a “ceasefire” is to AFFIRM THE LOGIC of the starvation campaign.
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Jul 29
Not trying to be a moral hipster here but it’s worth examining why virtually no media outlets critically examined the fact that what the Economist says here (minus the “Iran humbling”) was also true in Oct 2023. Nothing changed except countless Palestinian lives are now destroyed
The fundamentals are the same, all that’s changed is 10,000+ more dead Palestinian children. This campaign was always, at best a nihilistic campaign of mass killing and, at worst, genocide. It turned out to be both. The nominal logic of the “war” never made any sense.
In Jan 2024 Blinken ADMITTED the fundamental (nominal) logic of Israel’s “war” was false and not a single reporter or pundit followed up on this. This should have been a scandalous story causing major outrage, but it was casually dropped in an NBC report and never mentioned again Image
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Jul 25
NYT's morning newsletter parroting @PatrickKingsley's absurd and deliberately credulous "failure to plan" framing. It wasn't the open pronouncements by Israeli officials they were cutting off food, or the bombing of and propaganda against UNRWA, guys, they just neglected to PLAN! Image
nytimes.com/2025/07/25/bri…
there is no "transitional authority" because (1) Palestinian militants haven't been defeated and cannot, by definition, be defeated absent ethnic cleansing. (2) Israel is the de facto authority in Gaza and they are committing genocide and believe starving people helps this end
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Jul 25
My sense is this is too optimistic. I think emaciated children is a bridge too far PR-wise. There’ll be pressure on Israel to allow the UN to do a fraction of whats needed, then it’ll return to the pre-March 2025 status quo and Dems will go back to ignoring/cheer leading genocide
If one reads the statements the demand isn’t an end to the genocide, or “war,” or an arms embargo or demand Trump compel a lasting ceasefire, it’s a return to the pre March 2025 status quo, a/k/a the NYT editorial board line demanding Washington Bomb Children On A Full Stomach
The Biden WH position, that of the NYT and Washington Post editorial board position, the position of Hillary Clinton, Jeffries, Schumer et al remains the far left of acceptable opinion: Israel Must Bomb Children On a Full Stomach
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Jul 20
I know the 2024 Dem pitch for Gaza was 10% less genocide but Trump’s been in office 6 mo’s, and accelerated the genocide for four, and the two most powerful Dems, Schumer and Jeffries haven’t issued a single criticism of Trump’s Gaza policy. Neither has Harris, Biden or Obama.
We have zero evidence of any institutional Dem opposition to Trump’s Gaza policy. At this point this can only be read as agreement. A letter proposed by Rep Tlaib opposing mass starvation in Gaza only garnered 18 Dems. 18. a LETTER. This means 239 democrats didn’t give a shit
I have no idea how Gaza will “play in 2028” but I think telling millions of liberals that caring Too Much—in any systemic way—about emaciated children on their timelines that theyre somehow Doing A Racism is sowing unprecedented amounts of cynicism with unforeseeable consequences
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