"Rightwing settlers and extremist nationalist Zionists in Israel have described top officials in Donald Trump’s new administration as a 'dream team' which will offer a 'unique and special opportunity' to expand Israel’s hold on occupied territory and p...

[philip_cardella@historians.social]

@wdlindsy this is a very important article, thank you for posting it.

It makes me so fucking angry.

I know too many "Genocide Joe" assholes on the Left.

[travler@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy But will automatically raise the possibility of an increase in violence by anti Israel Muslim nations.

[jeffreysmith@mastdn.social]

@wdlindsy

Of all the reasons to oppose a candidate, participating in a genocide seems to be the best possible one. I can imagine someone chiding the relatives of the jews of the Warsaw ghetto for not voting for Hitler when I read your writing. #Palestine

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"'This [i.e., Trump's election] is a big win for Christians, for evangelicals,' [Franklin Graham] says. 'We believe the president will defend religious freedom where the Democrats would not.'

The selection of Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel is already a hint that faith might shape some foreign policy. US evangelicals including Huckabee are among the country’s most fervent supporters of Israel."

~ Aleem Maqbool

#Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
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The Christians who see Trump as their saviour

Many churchgoers consider Trump their hope as more Americans turn away from religion.

(www.bbc.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Many of them believe that Jews should populate the whole of the area of biblical Israel, including what is now the occupied West Bank and Gaza, in order to precipitate events leading to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ."

#Trump #Netanyahu #Israel #Palestinians #Gaza
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@JeffreySmith You're suggesting that Trump and his ally Netanyahu will reverse the genocide? So that voting for Trump is a vote to reverse what's happening to the Palestinians? What evidence do you have to support that suggestion?Trump is a viable and refreshing alternative to Biden and Harris when it comes to the situation of the Palestinian people? The shock of Palestinian groups at what they now see unfolding with Trump is misplaced? This is what you're saying?

[sasyecat@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
Trump and Cruz handed Golan Heights to Bibi on a silver platter, I'm not surprised at all what they are doing.

[misomunje@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

Christians electing a rapist is a win?!?

Christians suck. They just suck. They are hypocritical asses that just want to tell everyone else what to do.

A Christian who voted for Trump is going to hell.

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@wdlindsy

You ever feel like Franklin Graham doesn't know what religious freedom even is?

[lupus_blackfur@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy

And there you have it...

- yay Jews
- boo Muslims
- Israel = Promised Land
- Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem
and other "Christian" extreme blah blah.

So much human on human horrible happens in the name of religion.

And it just might be that "Christians" are the worst perpetrators now and historically.

🫏🫏

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@401matthall It's clear that it's religious freedom for me but not for thee, isn't it, when it comes to Frank and his ilk?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@sasyecat Yes. That anyone who chose to vote for Trump to "punish" Harris imagined anything other than this happening is mind-boggling?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lupus_blackfur History certainly offers us many lessons about the potential of religious groups everywhere, globally, to spark violence and hostility — and also to function in precisely the opposite way.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@misomunje So Franklin Graham and a huge majority of white evangelicals think, yes — that it's a win.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Travler I think the concern Jason Burke is hiighlighting is the concern of Palestinians about what Trump's election is portending for them.

[zemsgram@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Is religious freedom the freedom to force your religion on the rest of us, Franklin? And do you really think God gave you Trump? And Matt Gaetz, among the other unholy bunch Trump is going to populate his cabinet with?

[coldfish@sfba.social]

@wdlindsy you know.... I think I always had a pretty low opinion of evangelicals, and even most christians in general, but now it's reached a point that I couldn't possibly imagine.

Honestly, I just hate them all. I simply despise the people that put him in office and most especially the ones that do it "in god's name".

fuck. them.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@philip_cardella Yes, I know some of them, too, and have found that they're impossible to talk to, because it's not about pragmatism and reason but about purism. Some of those folks simultaneously endorsed either Marianne Williamson or Jill Stein as they swapped around slogans about Genocide Joe. I truly don't understand the stupidity of many on the left who behave this way election after election.

[tofugolem@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
Of course. Trump is a rapist, a degenerate, likely a pedophile, completely dishonest, racist, only cares about wealthy people, and a traitor.

In short, he is the conservative Christian ideal, morally-speaking.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@old_hippie That's my viewpoint.