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Literally yes. If Israel didn't have unconditional US support they'd have run out of bombs a long time ago. And probably gotten partitioned by their neighbors.

My Egyptian ass be like: My time has come. Let's see...

Turn the pot on its mouth, the girl turns out like her mother (no idea why it's like this, literally no purpose other than that it rhymes). Used when a girl is like her mother, basically what it says on the cover. The guy version is "This cub from that lion", which can't be used for girls because lioness is an insult for some reason (kinda like bitch but stronger).

The winds come with what ships don't want: Not everything happens as we want it to.

Going around and spinning: To try to trick someone or dodge a subject by making the conversation go in circles and not touch an important point. Speaking of spinning,

To spin around oneself: To be in trouble and really busy/not know what to do.

To pretend to be from Banha (a place in Egypt): To pretend you have nothing to do with what's going on.

A black (sometimes blue or white) day or night: An unpleasant time/experience. Used as both a statement and a threat (like "your day will be black today" after your parents catch you doing something you're not supposed to).

Have them for lunch before they have you for dinner: Attack before you're attacked.

The monkey would've benefited himself: When you ask someone for something they would've done for themselves if they could.

Kahka with sugar: Zero (on exams). Kahk is an Egyptian biscuit-like sweet eaten on Eid, and it's circular like a zero.

A pot with a hole is emptied on the one that lifts it: If you do something dumb you suffer the consequences.

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To get spanked: To fail.

To slam (your ass): To make up something (probably incorrect) in the moment. Comes from the idea of slamming your ass onto an exam paper and leaving whatever comes up as the answer.

Yeah which is why they said the scale is different. They're talking about the mindset because let's face it, Israel wants to turn Gaza into Lebensraum. They've been pretty clear about that.

Honestly if he stops this mess now he should get enough lesser evil votes. Gotta also revert his position on the border and other things, but he still has time to save his campaign.

Who cares about a possible WW3? What do you think happens if Iran gets involved?

It's only WWIII because Israel is capable of dragging the US into it. Otherwise it's just a regional war, and honestly if that's what it takes to get one of the largest factors in regional instability in the middle East to behave themselves it's worth it.

If stopping Israel in Gaza should be everyone’s top priority, that implies that a US invasion of Israel is on the table. Are you down for that, or are there maybe some other things that are priorities?

I mean a threat of invasion would work wonders so I wouldn't object to it (would ironically be one of the most peaceful ways to end this whole mess). But we don't even need to go there.

100k protest votes from the primary, which usually had less turnout compared to the general election. In this year's primary you had uncommitted as 13% of the votes. Can Biden afford to lose 13% of his voters in the general election?

It's not just Michigan. There are many battleground states where his campaign is at risk without Muslims and Black people, and there's no way he's winning at all without high young progressive turnout (one of, if not the, most important factors in his 2020 victory). Also the Jewish community in the US is very much not a monolith regarding Israeli aid.

Yeah I think I'll believe the UNSC votes.

I think most people who call them Nazis are doing so because of the mindset. Israel is forced to exercise a modicum of restraint while Nazis had none at all, but their actions and rhetoric are extremely similar. Not saying no one thinks the IDF is doing things on a similar scale to the Holocaust (I did until like five minutes ago), but that's not really the reason for the comparison. "If it looks like a Nazi, walks like a Nazi and quacks like a Nazi, it's a Nazi" is a pretty logically sound line of thinking.

To repeat myself just in case, the Nazis' industrialization of death was on a level on its own that hopefully won't be repeated again, but the Lebensraum aspect of Nazi ideology is replicated almost exactly as a core tenet of Zionist thinking. This is why they're called Nazis.

Okay good point. I guess I underestimated the Nazis.

The Nazis killed more people out of more people over a larger period of time. In Gaza at least 30000 people have been killed, and that at least is doing a lot of heavy lifting, in less than five months. There are also at least 60000 wounded, again at least. Now remember that all of Gaza has 2.5 million people. Leave Israel for four years and in relative terms they'll be about as bad as what the Nazis did.

Keeping others in the region from “taking action” is a good thing. The top priority in all of this for the US has been keeping it from escalating to a region wide conflict.

And who cares about the US's top priority? The top priority for everyone should be to stop Israel's genocide, not keep a facade of "peace" (read: US supremacy) in the region.

Yes, that's why they have bullet holes in their heads.

Ah, yes, and Israel will just continue their occupation and genocide of Gaza indefinitely. There's a reason Hamas exists you moron.

Because it is.

I guess it's not half (yet).

And for that the dead bodies are necessary. This is a (successful) Israeli attempt at reducing the legitimacy of reports of Gazans' plight by making sure most "reputable" sources can't access the Strip.

I mean hopefully both. The Yemeni genocide is also pretty bad so if we could do something about that it'd be nice staring at SA and the US.

Republicans are more zealously loyal than Democrats. They'll vote for Trump in the general election because as horrible Biden is he doesn't advocate for hunting the homeless for sport.

Edit: Also in the Republican primary did Trump run uncontested? If not then the comparison in the first place has no basis in reality.

Yes many of those uncommitted voters won't be voting for Biden in the election. They've said as much.