• leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Very charitable but valid interpretation.

    Extremely poor choice of a loaded word if so.

    Either way, reason to be disappointed with him.

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      9 hours ago

      Seems to me like it’s a good way of trying to make the idea of a free palestine appeal to zionists.

      (This is my best attempt at apologism.)

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      11 hours ago

      That’s where “when from” becomes significant as well. The political calculus around Zionism was pretty different 10 years ago - being anti-Zionist was basically a fringe ideology in the West, and in the mainstream was conflated with being anti-Jewish.

      Saying “Zionism” but interpreting it as a two-state solution was kind of a moderate-left take on things.

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      1 day ago

      Extremely poor choice of a loaded word if so.

      Totally agree. And tone deaf too. I imagine how ridiculous would it be to call for an “American exceptionalist” Canada.

      Very braindead to hope for a future empathetic view of the agressor if the aggression hasn’t even stopped yet.