Israel/Palestine Thread

US ambassador to Israel says it would be fine if Israel took control of much of the Middle East.

There is a 'Greater Israel' movement on the Right which calls for this.

Christian Zionist Huckabee is trying to open the Overton window even wider (pushes the boundary), so people begin to consider the unconscionable.

Then it’s all becomes acceptable in public discourse, that’s how it works.

I say, close the Overton window on this huckster.

By  SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY
Updated 5:25 AM GMT+8, February 22, 2026
https://apnews.com/article/israel-ambassador-huckabee-middle-east-arab-muslim-e88a235c48bfb904f0ee7f8a72edf250

“Huckabee, an evangelical Christian and strong supporter of Israel and the West Bank settlement movement, has long opposed the idea of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinian people. In an interview last year, he said he does not believe in referring to the Arab descendants of people who had lived in British-controlled Palestine as “Palestinians.”

MARCH 2025
By  MATTHEW LEE, FARNOUSH AMIRI and STEPHEN GROVES
Updated 8:16 AM GMT+8, March 26, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/israel-ambassador-congress-mike-huckabee-trump-gaza-a448937b9550f0f89c6d96d330286f6f

"Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of the pro-Israel group J Street, which has previously criticized the Biden and Trump administrations’ handling of the war, echoed that sentiment, saying that Huckabee’s views “would undermine American interests and the administration’s own stated commitment to pursuit of long-term regional peace and security.”

"He added, “Mr. Huckabee’s embrace of annexation, extremist settlers and fanatical Christian Zionism stands in stark contrast to the Jewish, democratic values held by the overwhelming majority of our community — and in stark contrast to Israel’s founding values of justice, equality and peace.”

If Trump were a Manchurian Candidate working for China he could hardly have done a better job making that country look like the more reasonable superpower.

Settlers outKlan the KKK

“I can only imagine it as something akin to the atmosphere Black families described in parts of the Jim Crow South, where the Ku Klux Klan rode at night, the law often on their side, delivering warnings in fire and blood,” said Nathaniel. “Lynchings were staged to strike maximum fear into the hearts of entire communities—to enforce racial hierarchy, crush political participation, and drive families from land and livelihoods they had built. The message was unmistakable: you have no protection here, and whatever you have can be taken”.

Nathaniel explained that unlike the American south, settlers “operate not with tacit protection from the law, as the KKK did, but with the visible backing of soldiers and a state apparatus.”

Christians and Muslims are also descendants of Abraham. I don't get this stuff at all. Shouldn't they have the right to return too?

Ben Givir personally handing out 2 hour eviction notices to Palestinian people.

The US embassy will now facilitate Russians etc. coming and going between Palestine and whatever hellhole they came from.

The US State Department will begin providing on-site consular services to Israeli settlers in West Bank settlements for the first time, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the US embassy in Jerusalem.

“Consular officers will be providing routine passport services in Efrat on Friday, February 27,” the embassy said, referring to an Israeli settlement south of the city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Two years later, the courage of Aaron Bushnell is still alive.

Aaron Bushnell was an active-duty US Air Force serviceman stationed in Texas. Born in 1998, he grew up in a religious community and later described himself as politically engaged and deeply troubled by US foreign policy.

On February 25, 2024, Bushnell traveled to Washington, DC, and positioned himself outside the Israeli Embassy. Wearing his military uniform, he began livestreaming on the platform Twitch. 

In a brief statement, he said he would “no longer be complicit in genocide,” referring to Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza and the United States’ political and military backing of it.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-longer-complicit-remembering-aaron-bushnell-two-years-after-his-death/

Evil

More than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. However, a broader examination of the death toll suggests significantly higher figures. A recent study by The Lancet, based on a population survey, estimated that 75,200 violent deaths occurred between October 7, 2023, and early January 2025. It concluded that violent deaths “substantially exceeded official figures.” Researchers noted that women, children, and older people comprised over half of those killed, and that violent deaths represented roughly 3–4 percent of Gaza’s pre-war population.

These are not abstract statistics. They exist as names, photographs, funerals, orphaned children, and destroyed neighborhoods. They circulate daily across digital platforms, carried not only by journalists but by survivors themselves.

This is hugely significant. Tucker Carlson keeps pointing out Zionism and AIPAC are a busted flush in the US and will never recover. Virtually the only people cheering for Israel at this point are the evangelical Christian nutters and the deeply corrupt pro-Zionist mainstream media - they are losing the PR battle everywhere else.