Poll: New York Dems side with Mamdani on Israel, Netanyahu

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2. A year ago:

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 39% of Israelis say Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has been about right, while 34% say it has not gone far enough and 19% think it has gone too far.
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/05/30/israeli-views-of-the-israel-hamas-war/

I understand why some are motivated to absolve Israeli's for Bibi, but the majority of his predecessors were no better.

When people are oppressed, they will fight back, even knowing it will ultimately lead to disaster. It is desperation, although still unforgivable and criminal. The United States' ironclad relationship enabled this end.

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The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1996-2006, a book of Said’s key writings that I co-edited with Andrew Rubin, both of us former students of Edward’s, has seen an elevenfold increase in sales since 7 October.

On X, a 1986 conversation between Salman Rushdie and Edward Said at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts has resurfaced in various posts. In the clip, Said describes an encounter with Benjamin Netanyahu, then the Israeli ambassador to the United States. “I was invited to a television debate with the Israeli ambassador,” Said explains, but not only would Netanyahu “not sit in the same room with me; he wanted to be in a different building, so as not to be contaminated by my presence.” Netanyahu demanded this bizarre separation, claiming that Said, as a Palestinian, wanted to kill him. “It was,” as Said notes, “really a totally absurd situation.”

Said was often alone in his analysis. History has since vindicated him
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/edward-said-palestine-israel-gaza