No question about it IMO.

At this point, I don’t even think they’d bother pretending otherwise. Trump would go on Truth.social and post an unhinged screed that pretty much boiled down to “Serves 'em right.”

And the media wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow.

I don’t doubt it for even a second.

Exactly as intended.

Imagine not recognizing that central authority is the problem.

Discworld, no contest.

By design.

And the 1% are going to ride it out in their purpose-built private enclaves, then buy the world at disaster auction prices and make themslves into feudal lords.

This isn’t even a political issue really.

Trump’s ENTIRE motivation is the prospect of his family making a fortune in Gaza waterfront real estate.

The psychopaths in power are afraid that Israelis might come to see Palestinians as actual human beings, which would complicate their genocidal goals.

“Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”

Wow.

It’s astonishing sometimes how deep the delusional evil runs in the Israeli right.

He starts that statement off trying to claim that the Gazans are “an animalistic society,” and then without missing a beat shifts to doing nothing but vividly demonstrating that in fact he and his allies are the actual animals.

They truly are among the most foul and loathsome and vile abominations to have ever crawled across the face of the Earth.

It’s not so much what Trump will let them get away with, but what Putin will let Trump let them get away with.

Just left to his own devices, Trump, strongman sycophant that he is, would let Netanyahu get away with anything. But there isn’t enough Israeli support for continuing to just grind away at murdering Gazans, which is why Netanyahu tried to expand it out to a regional war. And the problem with that is that any regional war is going to draw Iran in, and Iran is allied with Russia, so Putin isn’t going to stand for that. And Trump is Putin’s lapdog.

Well, so apparently the first possibility I noted is not the case, and the early reports weren’t just yet again blowing smoke.

So we’re down to two alternatives - it’s a legitimate deal that cedes at least some significant Palestinian autonomy, in which case Netanyahu will, as he already has in the past, sabotage it, or it’s just a long term con job that will leave enough of an Israeli presence that they can shift to West Bank style incremental conquest.

As if the oligarchs give a shit about international law enforcement…

Huh… that’s disappointing.

It was entirely predictable from Vichy Twitter and Meta, but I didn’t expect lemmy - even .world - to kowtow.

Oh gee, would you look at that - the country that’s so eager to torture Palestinians that they actually had riots when someone dared to say that their soldiers should not be allowed to rape prisoners, and that has been criticized for consistently targeting and destroying hospitals and thereby guaranteeing the deaths of that many more Palestinians, has suddenly trotted out some prisoner to try to make the case targeting hospitals is justified.

How… convenient.

Ah, the irony.

I hadn’t put it together before, but Israel is sort of an international case of affluenza - a spoiled, indulged rich kid who ends up a psychopath because daddy’s money has always given them whatever they want and shielded them from ever having to face the consequences of whatever they do.

It’s long past time to cut off their allowance.

And Netanyahu’s obvious provocation strategy is playing out exactly as intended.

Israel is a rogue state.

Can’t starve people to death if other people are allowed to give them food.

Well… yeah. Brazil’s the B in BRICS and Russia’s the R, so Brazil is officially pro-Russia.

And by the bye - China’s the C.