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Trump posts video of Jeffrey Sachs condemning Netanyahu for dragging the US into endless foreign wars.

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— AF Post (@AFpost) January 8, 2025

Trump posted the following video of Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who refers to Netanyahu as a "deep, dark son of a bitch".
- How can this be interpreted? Trump presents himself as the best friend of Israel, but he wants to end the expensive forever wars pic.twitter.com/Lcmk7O1Aud

— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) January 10, 2025

And yes, we gained absolutely nothing from that war. They didn’t attack us on 9/11. In fact, they were mortal enemies of Al Qaeda. They didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. But the Israel wanted regime change in Iraq. So we spent trillions to do that for Netanyahu.

— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) January 8, 2025

Sachs. The Columbia professor and defender of the Palestinian protest encampments, university Presidents, and the phrase "from the river to the sea".

https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/l52lk2typbcbezafys88s88abnsjje

Social media bomb throwers and right wing anti-Semites revived this left wing nut job as someone worth listening to. He's the neo-Noam Chomsky.

ATL Bear said:

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Sachs. The Columbia professor and defender of the Palestinian protest encampments, university Presidents, and the phrase "from the river to the sea".

https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/l52lk2typbcbezafys88s88abnsjje

Social media bomb throwers and right wing anti-Semites revived this left wing nut job as someone worth listening to. He's the neo-Noam Chomsky.

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Professor defends free speech, gets smeared as a commie.

Some things never change.

There is a difference between defending free speech and supporting genocidal terrorists. Anyone who understands the phrase "from the river to the sea" knows it is an example of the latter.

historian said:

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There is a difference between defending free speech and supporting genocidal terrorists. Anyone who understands the phrase "from the river to the sea" knows it is an example of the latter.

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I'd post a source debunking that claim, but ATL already did us the courtesy.

Because Jeff Sachs's web site is an objective source of info on issues related to Jeff Sachs. Gotcha

historian said:

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Because Jeff Sachs's web site is an objective source of info on issues related to Jeff Sachs. Gotcha

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I don't know that the meaning of "from the river to the sea" is an issue particularly related to Jeff Sachs, but feel free to point out his error regarding the phrase.

You referenced ATLBear & it's in your most recent post quoting him.

historian said:

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You referenced ATLBear & it's in your most recent post quoting him.

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Right, but you're not really countering his argument just by saying it's on his website. A lot of people post their own arguments on their own websites.

I was merely referencing your post. Nothing more.

🇺🇸 Bernie Sanders admits US senators refused to vote against arms sales to Israel because they knew AIPAC would end their careers…

Sanders stated that both AIPAC and Pharmaceutical Companies were using huge amounts of money to defeat political opponents..

“The American… pic.twitter.com/zuURN1s0Ka

— Pelham (@Resist_05) January 12, 2025

Former U.S. diplomat Hala Rharrit said she documented images coming out of Gaza for the State Department – “fragments of U.S. bombs next to massacres of mostly children.”

Warning: This clip contains graphic images from the war in Gaza. https://t.co/pz2AaVoPnl pic.twitter.com/ZGIYPSCMaf

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 13, 2025

Sam Lowry said:

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ATL Bear said:

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Sachs. The Columbia professor and defender of the Palestinian protest encampments, university Presidents, and the phrase "from the river to the sea".

https://www.jeffsachs.org/newspaper-articles/l52lk2typbcbezafys88s88abnsjje

Social media bomb throwers and right wing anti-Semites revived this left wing nut job as someone worth listening to. He's the neo-Noam Chomsky.

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Professor defends free speech, gets smeared as a commie.

Some things never change.

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Everyone is free to say dumb ***** I'm addressing those who buy into it.

boognish_bear said:

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🇺🇸 Bernie Sanders admits US senators refused to vote against arms sales to Israel because they knew AIPAC would end their careers…

Sanders stated that both AIPAC and Pharmaceutical Companies were using huge amounts of money to defeat political opponents..

“The American… pic.twitter.com/zuURN1s0Ka

— Pelham (@Resist_05) January 12, 2025

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Of course we can trust the word of a commie politician.

CBS is another fascist propaganda outlet. They aren't trustworthy. They haven't been for years. I remember when Dan Rather destroyed his career using fake documents in a hatchet job against W.

Redbrickbear said:

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Former U.S. diplomat Hala Rharrit said she documented images coming out of Gaza for the State Department – “fragments of U.S. bombs next to massacres of mostly children.”

Warning: This clip contains graphic images from the war in Gaza. https://t.co/pz2AaVoPnl pic.twitter.com/ZGIYPSCMaf

— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) January 13, 2025

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What you see there is stone cold irony.

We hear all the time that Israel owns USG policy in the Middle East. Yet, we hear little of an equal problem - Arab influence on USG policy in the middle east. The US Dept of State is structurally pro-Arab. Always has been. Likely always will be. Former State Dep geographyer Dr. Colbert Held taught a Political Geography class at BU. It was one of the best, most useful courses I took - how & why borders come & go, the forces that push & pull on them, the meanings of "nation" and "state," etc...... He was quite pro-Arab, described our pro-Israel policy as crazy...."why would we form a policy which alienates so many countries in the Middle East?" He didn't harp on it at all. Mentioned it only a couple of times.

He was a quite genial fellow, pragmatic, not at all an islamist or intersectionalist or anything like that. One of the top 3 or 4 favorite classes from my 6yrs getting 2 degrees. Just never understood why he couldn't see the weaknesses of the pro-Arab options. I suppose it was because he was trained as a Geographer, rather than in a national security portfolio. Morel likely, it was just that he was an academic - the academy is structurally hostile to a lot of things Americans at large support, particularly Israel. And then he went to Foggy Bottom and fell into the Arab sympathy mindset. You can google him. He's got a ton of pictures archived.

All Rharrit did was accumulate a compendium of Palestinian propaganda.
There is nothing unusual about "collateral damage" in war, particularly when one of the combatants hides amongst women & children.

If this is true, why were they kicking down the doors of J6'ers. https://t.co/3k2qheEXnH

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) January 13, 2025

Did Trump just end the war and free the hostages? Seeing news stuff starting to pop up.

Times of Israel: "Trump envoy swayed Netanyahu more in one meeting than Biden did all year"

Washington Post: "Truce talks aided by Trump pressure"

"A diplomat briefed on the ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas credited progress in the talks in part to the influence… pic.twitter.com/un8yRgPH0k

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) January 15, 2025

https://t.co/vhaBMY9jQv pic.twitter.com/JikVyeeDqx

— Philippe Lemoine (@phl43) January 15, 2025

Both sides know the Biden deal is pretty fair to each of them, that's why they didnt pursue it. They thought they could get a better deal. Their thinking now, is that Trump is too unpredictable to pass up a fair deal right now. Both camps have been saying they don't want a worse deal with Trump in charge.

And of course that is a good thing. Any cease fire means lives are spared, many of them innocents.

There will be 3 phases of negotiation, and this was the easiest. 30 something Israelis for probably hundreds of Palestinians.

The real challenge will be agreeing upon long term governance of Gaza, buffer zones, and on that topic, BBC was reporting that Trump is pro Palestinian statehood, so that might be interesting.

If Israel has weakened Hamas to the point that they don't see themselves as capable of major offensives against Israel in the immediate to mid future, they might actually go for some sort of co-existence.

It has been presented to them many times, but they always had rathered just kill Jews. This may be a real opportunity for something similar to peace.

Libs gotta be hating this. They have to virtue signal happiness but at the same time: orange man bad!

What a conundrum!!

IDF general credits Trump threat as 'big change' in securing cease-fire after Hamas rejected same deal in May https://t.co/YnEIs09Ma6 #FoxNews

— Jordan Sekulow (@JordanSekulow) January 16, 2025