Trump delivers funny, warm speech in favor of genocide
Does anyone else think the slaughter of innocent people is funny?
Donald Trump recently addressed a crowd of 4,000 Christian and Jewish religious broadcasters and expressed his faithfulness to Israel. The report on this event in All Israel News was entitled With funny, warm & strongly pro-Israel speech, Trump wins over 4,000 Evangelical media leaders at NRB.
I read several reports on this speech and none of them, of course, mentioned the Israel-perpetrated genocide on Palestine. Nor did Trump address this issue in his speech. My point is that support for Israel today IS support for genocide and there’s no getting around it.
I assume he believes he can ignore the issue and keep right on wholeheartedly supporting the criminal regime in Tel Aviv without any blowback. However, in his town hall meetings, it is not unlikely that someone will ask him whether he as president would try to persuade Israel to stop randomly killing people in Palestine.
I feel the need to warn Trump that his Evangelical support – the most important pro-trump demographic – may not last long – maybe not even until November.
Here’s why.
Evangelicals have been rapidly changing their views on Israel.
First the older news
A poll from 2018-2021 showed that support for Israel among American Evangelicals under 30, fell more than 35% in just three years. …
Dr. Kirill Bumin, associate dean of Metropolitan College helped compile the three-year study. …
Three surveys led by Bumin and Dr. Motti Inbari at UNC-Pembroke from 2018 to 2021, indicate this change came during a pivotal turn in Israel-Palestine relations. …
As of 2021, roughly one-third of young evangelicals surveyed support Israel, compared to more than two-thirds in 2018. During that same period, support for Palestinians rose from 5% to 25%. Also, the number of respondents saying they support neither Israel nor Palestine doubled from 25% to 50%.
“What changed is this introduction of social media,” said Inbari. “Younger people now have a much more diverse opportunity to get information than the other generations in the past did not have.”
Another finding shows pastors are changing, including a drift in their support of Israel and how they interpret the Bible.
“And that change is from a more pro-Israel, pre-millennial dispensationalist position to one that really does not see much importance to the contemporary state of Israel or the Jewish people in the end times and the second coming of Jesus Christ,” Bumin explained. …
I do not have inside information on how US pastors think, but I have shown that the doctrine of “Christian” Zionism does not tally with Christ’s teachings. For example, while this doctrine teaches that the dateline of Second Coming is linked to events in modern Israel, Jesus was once asked by his disciples about his second return and He simply said He didn’t know, only the Father knew. If He himself didn’t know, how could any person living now, 2000 years later, be so cocksure of this timeline? At any rate, this doctrine is based on mixed and matched passages cherry-picked from the OT and NT obviously with the aim of supporting the Zionist agenda for the benefit of politicians.
As for the change in Americans’ access to news about current events in the Israel-Palestine conflict, social media has crashed through the barriers of censorship that had long been erected and maintained by the Israeli-American elites in government and media. I personally found several years ago that Facebook had a pro-Palestinian site that revealed the horrors of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in photos and videos. I began following it daily. Sites like this alone could account for the erosion of belief in Israel as a Holy Land and not a crime syndicate.
And now the more recent news
USAToday reports on Feb 25, 2024:
The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) recently released a poll that examined how religious groups view a cease-fire. This poll differs from prior ones because it focused on religious groups rather than solely political affiliation.
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White evangelicals also favor a cease-fire
But what's perhaps more surprising in the latest poll is that 58% of white evangelicals also favor a cease-fire…
I was not surprised by these results.
After all, Evangelicals are not completely brain dead, and reports on the Israeli genocide have been appearing daily since Oct 7, 2022. It would be surprising if the recent reports of Israel bombing homes, hospitals, schools, churches, and firing on even UN aid providers fell on deaf ears.
Knowing who the overly confident Trump is, I fully expect him to fall into a trap of his own making and assume that his Evangelical base has not changed an iota between now and November and refuse to amend his position on Palestine, insisting that the Muslims must be eliminated to keep his beloved Israel safe.
That rigid position could cost him the election if Biden adopts a more moderate position under pressure from the grassroots and starts insistently asking for a ceasefire.
On the other hand, even if Trump does wind up getting elected, if he then allows Israel to keep up the genocide or even sends US boots on the ground to kill Palestinians, he could face enormous blowback and become one of the most unpopular presidents ever.
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Our thanks to JS for this:
But Don, at the end of the day, will either Trump or Biden ever do anything more than provide weasel words on this issue?
Consider the most recent weasel word contribution from Tony Baloney Blinken:
“It’s been longstanding US policy, under Republican and Democratic administrations alike, that new settlements are counterproductive to reaching an enduring peace. They’re also inconsistent with international law. Our administration maintains a firm opposition to settlement expansion. And in our judgement this only weakens — it doesn’t strengthen — Israel’s security.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/23/politics/blinken-west-bank-settlements-international-law/index.html
Consider how the MSM, e.g. WashPost, characterized this carefully meaningless equivocation:
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced a reversal of the previous administration’s position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank on Friday, saying they are “inconsistent with international law.”
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U.S. officials said the decision to clarify Washington’s position on settlements had already been researched and planned as part of recent measures designed to express the administration’s growing discomfort with Israeli actions in Gaza and the West Bank.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/23/israel-west-bank-settlements-illegal/
Israel has been building illegal settlements for 57 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_settlement_timeline
Not one presidential regime has done anything at all meaningful during that time to oppose these illegal activities except, from time to time, to denounce them as illegal.
The U.S. approach to the question of Israeli settlements has varied over time and across different administrations. While influenced to some degree by the Israeli prime minister of the day, generally the U.S. has opposed the building and expansion of Israeli settlements, largely viewing them as illegal, illegitimate, and an obstacle to a peaceful resolution to the conflict. With few exceptions, U.S. opposition has remained direct in rhetoric. But American willingness to go beyond statements and diplomatic engagements has waned significantly over the past two decades, mainly because of a changing global and national order of strategic priorities, innate pro-Israel tendencies, fear of domestic political implications, and an aspiration that a resolution to the conflict would end the need to butt heads over this most contentious issue.
Over the years, American diplomats have held hopes that addressing the issue of borders within the framework of final-status negotiations would also pave the way for a resolution on settlements. This has been the case from the early years of President Johnson, when the matter gained prominence, to the dynamic attempts of President Bush George W. Bush to curb settlement expansion, to the near exclusive focus on a settlement freeze during President Obama’s first term that ultimately failed, to President Trump’s almost full departure from longstanding U.S. policy, to the full-frontal challenges faced by the Biden administration today.
SOURCE: https://israelpolicyforum.org/an-unsettled-question/
Biden is in deep doo-doo politically and will SAY anything to get elected. But once the votes are counted later this year, neither he nor Trump will ever DO anything to offend the Zionist Reich.
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Here’s your air strike update for Feb 25, 2025
Massive attack on objects on the territory of Ukraine on February 25. Rybar data
Throughout the night and morning, Russian troops carried out massive combined strikes on enemy targets in different regions of so-called. Ukraine.
The targets of the strikes were enemy personnel bases, industrial facilities and military airfields. Both kamikaze drones "Geran-2" and ballistic missiles were used for fire destruction.
Airfield infrastructure: attacks were carried out on aviation bases in Martynovka, Mykolaiv oblast, and Starokonstantinov, Khmelnytsky oblast, there is no information about the damage caused.
An attack on the Kanatovo airfield in the Kirovograd oblast was also reported: according to preliminary data, Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners managed to intercept all targets.
There is also information about the night operation of air defense systems in the Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kyiv and Zhytomyr oblasts, as well as in Zaporozhye. However, at the moment there is no information about hits.
Chernigov: a blow was struck at the territory of the Belkozin plant in Priluki - the only enterprise in Ukraine engaged in the production of collagen casings for meat products.
Sumy: in Shostka, a hit was recorded in one of the workshops of the Polykhim enterprise, which produces paints, varnishes and foundry materials.
The occupied part of the DPR: strikes were recorded at the Ukrainian Armed Forces' bases in Kurakhovo, Selidovo, Krasnogorovka, Seversk, Chasov Yar and Novoselovka Pervaya.
In Konstantinovka, a guided aerial bomb destroyed the local railway station and station infrastructure; the building cannot be restored. In addition, the temporary deployment point of the 22nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Ulyanovskaya Street was hit. Other targets included the territory of a boarding school (current school No. 8) and vocational school No. 39, which were also used by the enemy to house personnel.
The next strikes of the Russian Armed Forces on the rear oblasts of the so-called. Ukraine were aimed at weakening the industrial potential and combat capabilities of the enemy air force.
At the same time, the number of hit bases of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces in the front-line areas of the occupied part of the DPR has increased significantly, which is especially important during major offensive operations of the Russian army in this area.
TK Rybar @rybar
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“Many militants were killed”: a Russian missile hit a Ukrainian Armed Forces echelon
The station in Konstantinovka was turned into a sieve
Russian drones continue to methodically pound the Ukrainian rear. Even the media in Ukraine no longer respond to every strike. Is it possible that the military administration of the cities where there were hits provides residents with meager information about the explosions. On the night of February 24-25, such explosions were reported in the Kharkov, Donetsk (in the part still under Ukrainian control) and Nikolaev oblasts.
This morning, Ukrainian social networks were filled with photographs of the destroyed train station in the city of Konstantinovka, a part of the Donetsk region controlled by Ukraine. It is reported that the missile arrived there at a time when a train with reserve forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was on the tracks. “They were bombed while the Ukrainian Armed Forces train were being transported to the station. According to official data [disinformation], one was wounded and he was a civilian. In fact, many militants were killed,” writes the telegram channel “Slavyansk Z”.
On the morning of February 25, there were reports of an air raid on the Kharkov oblast. Moreover, Ukrainian public service pages and media reported about this. “Aerial bombs are being launched in the Kharkov oblast, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reports,” reported the Ukrainian portal Politika strany (Политика страны). Residents were asked to go to shelters. The consequences of the strikes have not yet been advertised.
Elena Gamayun
Yes, unequivocally, supporting Israel today is supporting genocide, war crimes and racist cruelty.