I wasn’t really thinking of them as part of “the Western world” tbh. I do understand that there’s a loud contingent for whom she’s just a stupid loudmouth FEMALE, maybe that is a fly in the ointment of my argument. I do think it’ll still have a pretty significant impact.
I actually don’t think that’s true. One of the rare bright spots in Trump’s generally unbroken record of catastrophe is that he is so unpredictable, and generally gives so little of a shit what happens to anyone outside himself, that the chances of Israel suffering some kind of great consequence and the US not bailing them out as we always do are greatly increased right now I think.
Also, yes, I think this is possibly the greatest fuckup Israel could possibly have committed right now. It may be what finally turns the tide against them, after so many decades of nothing. Outside of literally nuking Gaza or Iran or something, I honestly can’t think of anything worse for them than physically brutalizing a universally popular Western media personality for literally no reason at all.
This is a deliberate tactic.
I do feel like probably your strategy of just leaving the post alone instead of taking the bait and removing it is (in all seriousness) the right response to this.
(Which, of course, makes it hilarious that in the past you’ve been absolutely fanatical about applying the rules as they are supposedly written, but all of a sudden you are apparently using common sense and making exceptions now, when failing to apply common sense might result in a bad look for you.)
Amit Segal, another outspoken defender of Israel, cited the same report in raising a similar alarm, warning that a famine “would see Israel lose even its most strident supporters.”
Doubt
Yesterday on the subway I really thought about going and standing next to the man playing videos on his phone, with my own phone playing some video at top volume positioned right next to his head. And then, when he looked up at me, looking back at him and saying, “Kind of irritating? Isn’t it?”
Maybe I am cowardly because I decided not to. I thought about it for a while though.