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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The immediate pressing concern is to stop the fighting and get aid in to alleviate the famine and other humanitarian concerns. You can’t hold an election while over half your population is displaced and homeless with tens of thousands wounded and a famine. The situation needs to be stabilized, and there is going to have to be some external party there to enforce the peace and start that work. Some of the proposals involve a regional peacekeeping force from Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, etc

    As a party engaged in the fighting, if you want it to stop you’re going to have to be discussing and coming to agreements with Hamas. But yes, in the longer term there should be free and fair elections in Gaza and the whole of Palestinian territory. But that’s steps down the road, for sure.

    The alternative is to continue on the path we’re on. Sure, you might destroy Hamas as an organization, but you will have either created the breeding ground for much worse to come in the future, or gone all-in on genocide.






  • If true that’s an encouraging development, but I’m withholding judgement until it’s confirmed as true and the reasons behind it are revealed. Whether it’s part of a larger message about offensive aid in relation to Israel continuing to signal an imminent large ground invasion of Rafah, or one of the baby steps of sanctioning individual military units, or if it’s just some logistical holdup.

    If it’s anything but the latter the administration really needs to work on their public messaging. Even if you’re playing hardball behind the scenes to reduce harm, continuing with the public line of “We support whatever Israel does 100% of the time every time.” makes anything else ring hollow.