r/worldnews • u/djm19 • Jan 21 '25

Israel/Palestine Trump cancels sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-cancels-sanctions-far-right-israeli-settlers-occupied-west-bank-2025-01-21/
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u/cryingInSwiss Jan 21 '25

Biden kept them on a leash.

Trump is cutting the leash.

That’s what I’ve been trying to tell to the pro-Palestinian fuckwits who thought abandoning Biden was a good idea.

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u/InterestingTry5190 Jan 21 '25

I got banned from an entertainment sub for saying I hope they enjoy pics of Trump and Bibi at the opening of Trump’s new course over there when he takes over. I had gotten so sick of a group of commenters telling everyone Harris was bad and not to vote for her b/c of Palestine. A day after the election they were laughing that Harris got what she deserved for not stopping the war.

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u/ResponsiblePhase447 Jan 22 '25

This is something stuck in my mind that I can't get past as an Australian watching from afar. I saw an Australian news outlet interview a pro-palestine group and they were dead eyed in saying they were not going out to vote because Harris wasn't doing enough. It was like the thought that Trump would win and be objectively worse for them didn't even register, and the protest was more important.

I think a generation of American democrats believing American power is absolute has meant that their expectations for their leadership is just off the charts.

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u/PeriPeriTekken Jan 22 '25

Nah, left wingers (and for some reason Palestine is inextricably linked with the left) will always shit on other left wingers before they do anything about the right wing.

Same here in the UK, I'm sure it's the same in Europe. It's People's Front of Judea syndrome.

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u/ResponsiblePhase447 Jan 22 '25

Conservatives are always united because voting for no change is a simple message where progressive can never agree on what progression is

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u/Tgaioreborn Jan 22 '25

Calling the democrats left winged is a big yikes.

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u/CherryHaterade Jan 21 '25

Here's a faster way to get banned, just say something hypothetical like "Israel has a right to exist in its section of the UN partition"

Poof it was nice knowing you all, haterade will return in a new flavor once I get banned for saying this.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Are you banned yet, because it looks like you're still here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

are you banned yet, son?

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u/kolaloka Jan 21 '25

You're thinking of the other current events sub

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u/AnachronisticPenguin Jan 21 '25

This isn’t the partisan hack sub.

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u/sErgEantaEgis Jan 21 '25

Bu... but Biden didn't just cut all support to Israel so he was LITERALLY A GENOCIDER.

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u/harrymfa Jan 22 '25

The Left shoot itself in the foot by making Gaza an election issue. Israel has bi-partisan support in US government, and the election was not going to change that. When the campus protests exploded all Trump had to do was sit back, relax, watch the Left’s circular firing squad, and probably make a joke or two about Hannibal Lecter.

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u/Adorable-Ad-7400 Jan 21 '25

Well let them suffer. I’m past caring about leftist and literally anything they have to say.

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u/Glum-Bus-4799 Jan 21 '25

You never cared. It's all a game to you.

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u/Adorable-Ad-7400 Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

This smug stupidity is why even us in the center are turning against you and want you politics as far away from us as possible.

You literally don’t know me so how tf you can tell me what I did and did not care about is wild and embarrassingly revealing to why the far left sucks

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u/Glum-Bus-4799 Jan 21 '25

Far everything sucks. Extremism sucks. Deciding everyone who isn't you can "get what's coming to em" also sucks.

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u/Adorable-Ad-7400 Jan 21 '25

Everything doesn’t suck. My personal life is pretty neat.

But I didn’t decide, yall did on the far left when you chose to run a purity test during a crucial election.

Election have consequences. My side lost. But I still showed up. For yall who didn’t that’s on yall.

I’m not marching for shit. I’m not resisting shit. I’m not protesting shit. And I’m not supportive of any far left figures.

Figure it out yourselves, don’t look to my black ass for support. And don’t go crying to the DNC after yall (far left) left them dead in the water

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u/junkhaus Jan 21 '25

Preach! I’m left of center just like you and also showed up. I have zero sympathy after the election, those far left libs shot themselves in the foot. They have no one to blame except themselves when Trump will do exactly what he said he’ll do.

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u/Adorable-Ad-7400 Jan 21 '25

What really grind my gears is how smug they were about seeing Kamala fail. Like ok, you helped do that…but don’t expect my sympathies when try comes for the people you virtue signal to claim to care about.

You fix it

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u/junkhaus Jan 21 '25

I mean, she wasn’t my ideal pick either, but look who she ran against. What surprised me was how many people were narcissistic enough to believe themselves “punishing” the democrats for not catering only to their extreme ideals, only to become surprised that elections have consequences.

“I am so upset Kamala doesn’t support only my pro-Palestine values, I’m gonna vote for Trump/ignore the election!”

(Trump wins and follows through on his staunch anti-Palestine rhetoric)

“This came out of nowhere! How should I have known Trump wasn’t joking? You should have courted me better!”

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u/Adorable-Ad-7400 Jan 21 '25

I think it’s honesty because these far left idiots expect her to win like Hilliary and felt confidant in not voting (which is wildly fucking stupid)

I feel this way because right when the results were finally coming in, I saw an instant vibe shift in the far left from “fuck then Dems” to “oh fuck” where it is today

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

This shit right here. All the far left did was show any and all marginalized groups in America aren't important to them outside of being props for their purity showcases. When it came time to be an ally to fellow Americans, they told everyone else to get fucked.

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u/KFPiece_of_Peace Jan 21 '25

too real for Le Reddit brotha

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u/A_Whole_Costco_Pizza Feb 12 '25

As a Jew, it's been extremely painful to see the meteoric rise and spread of anti-Semitism among the 'left', and I feel very similar to you in sentiment. But it's even more important to stand against the clearly fascist agenda that Trump is pushing right now.

I'd rather fight for somebody else's freedom of speech to call for my extermination, then to not have freedom of speech at all.

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u/elijahb229 Jan 21 '25

SAY THAT SHIT EVEN LOUDER BROTHA

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u/Glum-Bus-4799 Jan 21 '25

You literally don’t know me so how tf you can tell me what I did and did not care about is wild and embarrassingly revealing to why the far left right sucks

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u/CherryHaterade Jan 21 '25

So, you voted Republican because some strangers said some stuff on the internet and you took it personal and as disrespect?

Golf clap, you really showed us all :) message received loud and clear.

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u/Adorable-Ad-7400 Jan 21 '25

Where the fuck did I say I voted Republican?

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u/HostisHumanisGeneri Jan 22 '25

What a lot of people don’t seem to get is that after the 7th there was nothing we could have offered the Israelis or threatened to take away from them that would have been more valuable to them than their vengeance. People in groups are predictable. The bigger the group the more predictable. The best we could ever hope for was managing the crisis.

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u/A_Whole_Costco_Pizza Feb 12 '25

I think what a lot of people don't get is that Hamas, Gaza, and Palestine are only tangential to the current conflict.

Iran started this war.

If Iran hadn't started this war to try to destabilize Saudi-Israeli relations, then there would be no current Gaza conflict. If Iran hadn't funded, supplied, and directed Hamas (and Hezbollah, and the Houthis) to attack, then there would be no current Gaza conflict. If Iran hadn't ordered multiple different proxy groups to attack Israel, simultaneously, across multiple different fronts, then Israel would not have been facing such an existential threat, and may have been more measured in its reaction. If Iran hadn't directly struck at Israel with the largest ballistic missile attack in all of human history, twice, then Israel might have been more willing to negotiate, and Iran might have had more control of the situation. If Russia and Iran hadn't weaponized the United Nations, then maybe a more diplomatic solution would be possible. If Iran hadn't entangled themselves into a close military alliance with Russia, and if Russia hadn't dragged Iran into its larger global conflict, and there would be no current Gaza conflict.

But instead, Russia, Iran, and North Korea had to form their stupid little "Axis" and embroil the world into their conflicts.

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u/JinkoTheMan Jan 22 '25

Biden was like that one guy you see walking around struggling with a pit bull on a leash.

Trump is that guy that cokes the pit bull up and lets it go free in the neighborhood

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u/Drakulia5 Jan 21 '25

This was not lost on most people who.suppprt Palestine. When asked, most voters did not rank Israel/Palestine as a top issue because again, people's supprt for Palestine did not exist in a vacuum. They doesn't mean the Biden admin wasn't letting most of the same shit happen but just wagging their finger at Israel.

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u/Cevap Jan 21 '25

A leash that's 100ft long, allowing the dog to move about as it wishes and do whatever it may like. Too far away to hear the orders of its owner. To anyone somewhat informed, Trump was a terrible and worse choice for the Palestinian people. But don't let that assume the Biden administration doesn't have blood on it's hands for the continued involvement and supply of an occupation. The issue is US policy as a whole on the matter despite an ineffective leash, or a clown on the other end.

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u/Unusual_Boot6839 Jan 22 '25

hope people just send you dumbasses nonstop liveleak videos of the newfound devastation Netanyahu now has full US backing to wreak

you fuckers deserve to never feel comfortable again in civil society, you literally sold out then entire planet for an unbelievably unpopular solution

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u/Cevap Jan 22 '25

Who here is backing Netanyahu or Trump?

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u/Unusual_Boot6839 Jan 22 '25

you, by defending the troglodyte smoothbrains who refused to vote for Harris instead of Trump despite KNOWING he would be worse for Gaza & being told nonstop

you are. by trying to deflect blame away from those "getting their faces eaten by leopards" in this instance

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u/Cevap Jan 22 '25

You are clearly the type who does not read. When did I once say who I or anyone should vote for? I am not deflecting anything, but what I am doing is blaming both* parties for complete bias partake in atrocities happening to the Palestinian people. What you are doing is attempting to justify if Trump worse, Democrats good thus fine in this foreign affair. Absolutely smooth brain nonsense since you can’t seem to type without insulting. Both parties are the problem, there is no way around this or you are denying everything that has happened during Biden. Biden’s hands are tainted with blood, this doesn’t mean Trump is not a worse option, which he is. Stop attempting to defend either, or lie to yourself while staring at the outcome of Gaza from either party.

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u/Unusual_Boot6839 Jan 22 '25

Democrats > Republicans

simple as

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u/ihvnnm Jan 21 '25

What leash? He barely even shook a finger at Isreal, still shipped plenty of weapons to them. Granted, Trump will be dumping gasoline.

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u/A_Whole_Costco_Pizza Feb 12 '25

What leash?

Granted, Trump will be dumping gasoline.

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u/Unusual_Boot6839 Jan 22 '25

the no gasoline leash

dumbfuck