Recent remarks he made urging an end to the Gaza conflict, with no insistence on freeing Israeli hostages first, were another departure from conservatives’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    622·
    3 months ago

    I’ll translate from mob-boss-speak: when Trump says “finish up,” he means “complete the extermination of the Palestinian people quickly, before the anti-genocide opposition can finish mobilizing to stop it.”

    • Sizzler@slrpnk.net
      5·
      3 months ago

      “Donald Trump did not expressly direct him to reverse engineer financial statements, he ordered him to do so indirectly, in his ‘mob voice.’”

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      99·
      3 months ago

      what anti-genocide opposition?

      Biden hasn’t even stepped back an inch on supporting Israel even after all the protests, resignations, and blatant evidence of war crimes.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        I’m talking about the anti-genocide protestors in Israel and elsewhere who keep getting threatened, arrested, censored, etc.

        • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Ah I was confused because you said “mobilize” which made it seem like you meant opposition party.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            I mean, surely there are some political parties in Israel opposed to the genocide.

    • Thief_of_Crows@lemmy.ml
      23·
      3 months ago

      That’s incredibly speculative. What reason do you have to think Trump cares HOW the conflict ends? When has trump ever cared about anyone besides himself?

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        Well, for starters, Trump also said that Israel needs to “finish what they started” and what they started was a genocide, so…

        He also said Israel needs to “get it over with” and that’s something you say when you want someone to complete an unpleasant task rather than abandon it.