1/ Tonight 8 House members and dozens of Senators called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. This is significant.
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2/ First, it's in direct contradiction to Biden's same-old same-old "we support Israel's right to self-defense" comment. Second, it's Congress assuming a Constitutionally granted power in foreign policy matters, a role it has mainly ceded to the president for decades.
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3/ All this represents a serious sea change - in how Congress sees the situation & how the American people see the situation. But it will not be enough to simply stop the bombing. There must be fundamental changes that go much further, & American influence is extremely important.

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4/ The US must do more than point out that the settlements are illegal; it must say WE CONDEMN the settlements. Same for apartheid conditions within Israel plus the occupation. The US needs to stop enabling Israel's wrong behavior. That is our greatest hope, perhaps our only hope
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OmG! With such keen insight into the diplomatic processes you should go immediately, straight into where the missiles are pointed and tell them how important this is to them. From your mansion here in the US they may not be getting your tweets.
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I am devastated by the actions of @POTUS. We are witness to genocide against the Palestinian people. We are witness to war crimes. This will mark the beginning of the end of America's hoped for new role on the international stage. It's the beginning of Biden and @VP unravelling
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Biden has failed miserably and the US looks weak. We can expect more of this. The next thing I see being threatened is the electrical grid. This would never happen under Trump. Scary times.
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If the Jews can have an ethnostate. then, the rest of us want one too!
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We can only hope it results in real change. It's a good start, but we have a long way to go. The last thing I want to argue for is more American intervention, but in this case it has been largely a result of our intervention in the first place that made the atrocity possible.
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This sounds good, but the same congress keep mute when African butcher men open slaughter fields for opposition politicians, examples are Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, just to name a few ..
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it's a helluva lot more than "influence" money talks bullshit walks
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Fundamentals rights When Israel was killing unarmed Palestinians. When Al-Aqsa Mosque is being martyred. When the religious sentiments of Muslims are being hurt. Is this a fundamental right? The United Nations Slavery of America. The independence of these countries is also jok