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Elise Stefanik, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the UN, stated during her confirmation hearing that Israel has a "biblical right" to the occupied West Bank, aligning with far-right Israeli officials.

Stefanik sidestepped support for Palestinian self-determination, blaming their leadership for failures.

Her stance signals a shift from Biden-era opposition to Israeli settlements, with Trump lifting sanctions on Israeli settler groups and nominating pro-settlement figures like Mike Huckabee for key roles.

Stefanik also vowed to audit UN funding and block aid to Palestinian refugee agencies.

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[–] Saleh@feddit.org -4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

As it stands in terms of manifested actual political effects, not virtue signaling and token efforts, Trump managed to push for the ceasefire Biden was unwilling to apply pressure for.

We will see, how the politics of Trump look, when it comes to material on the ground effects, but Biden proudly stood by and gave more bombs while watching daily how women and children are murdered with them and millions of people have their everything destroyed.

So so far Trump did much more for Palestinian lifes than Biden. That is not a big achievement of Trump. It just shows that Biden indeed is genocide Joe, who chose every day to continue this, despite all it taking to end it being a phone call.

Also as Biden delivered weapons while Israel was murdering US aid workers he directly violated US laws.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Trump managed to push for the ceasefire Biden was unwilling to apply pressure for.

So so far Trump did much more for Palestinian lifes than Biden.

You know they've still been shooting people in Gaza past Sunday, right?

An Israeli sniper just shot a kid. Yesterday or today I think. They also air-struck a refugee camp in the West Bank, which hasn't been happening recently.

I don't even know why I'm still here, having these conversations. This place is very weird. On most of Lemmy, it's kind of isolated spots of "yay Trump he fixed it, Israel's gonna be good now" from time to time, but mostly it just gets laughed out of the room. On !world@lemmy.world it's like a mob of it.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

An Israeli sniper just shot a kid. Yesterday or today I think.

That is, unfortunately, just what happens when Israel accepts a ceasefire. It's definitely not good, but it's better than when the genocide was going full steam ahead.

They also air-struck a refugee camp in the West Bank, which hasn't been happening recently.

The ceasefire doesn't cover the West Bank. Again not good, but this is how Israel does things and isn't an indication that the ceasefire is going to fail.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org -3 points 8 hours ago

I didnt say Trump fixed it. I said that Biden put the bar so ridiciously low, that it was easy for Trump to step over it.

And while i hope that murder who sho the kid in Gaza will be punished for it in this world and the next, it is certainly a much smaller extend than what Israel was doing daily for the past year with full support from Biden.