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Listen to this: https://thefirethesetimes.com/2025/04/23/doikayt-hereness-now-w-molly-crabapple/

I'm not expecting harmony immediately, I'm advocating for a political project with outside pressure to get to it eventually. Israelis like to talk about deradicalization of the Palestinians, but Israeli society itself needs to be deradicalized.

There is nothing cosmically exceptional about this conflict compared to other conflicts. If Bosnia and Herzegovina can be a society for Bosniak, Serbs and Croats and if Rwanda can find reconciliation after a genocide, so can Palestinians and Israelis.

This: "Why Rwanda is held up as a model for reconciliation, 26 years after genocide" | CBC Radio https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/why-rwanda-is-held-up-as-a-model-for-reconciliation-26-years-after-genocide-1.5842139

If we can't imagine this horizon and if we don't have the courage to work for it, what are we even doing? If all we can imagine is death and hatred, we are creating a self fulfilling prophecy and precluding ever going beyond it. We need moral courage and ambition, that's all I'm saying.

The NDP's problem is not the candidate, it's the lack of policy alternative. We just spent 10 years on very incremental small potatoes. Sure non-universal dental and pharmacare is absolutely not nothing but these are not normal times. We need some Mamdani style policy proposals, a morally ambitious program to reform Canada.

Things like:

• am aggressive tax policy to curb income and wealth inequality, which is a ticking bomb for our democracy
• massive increases in non-market housing to address the housing crisis
• free university to expand and train our next generation of doctors and nurses
• a decisive energy transition and an actual war on the fossil economy, from the wells to the pumps
• a new urban strategy framed around transit and active transport
• a restorative economy and actual reconciliation and land back to indigenous people
• a program for opening our borders aiming to grow and renew our smaller towns and cities
• a renewal of our glorious Peacekeeping tradition and a positive role in the world based on an uncompromising commitment to international law

We are facing a slew of crises from the climate, to fascism, to billionaire dragons siphoning capital and throwing us into economic stagnation.

If we don't argue for our ideals, who will?

The NDP needs to do its job and present a brave democratic socialist vision for Canada and start shifting the Overton window to a future where the Liberals would be the right and the Tories the minor party.

Bad idea.

Nothing is "viable" if you just extrapolate the present, except I guess genocide.

To take a step back, moral ambition and political courage are necessary. If Ireland could reach a Good Friday Agreement, if South Africa could overcome apartheid, so can Palestine/Israel.

A plurinational democratic state with equal rights for all, with a truth and reconciliation process, and with strong international support is the only way the middle east can ever reach peace.

And if we are putting on big boy pants and imagining a better world, why not envision the Mediterranean Union becoming a force for democratization and stabilization allowing the free movement of people throughout the region.

When realism is dystopian, fuck realism and pick utopia. Otherwise, why even live?

My pro-palestinian praxis is making sure my Jewish neighbours have no reason to even think about aliyah. Jewish safety? It's here. Reverse doikayt.

US booze? Bah. I'm here skipping US cauliflower.

Oh I'm sorry, I thought the recent moves deepening the existing framework was proof enough. You want to go back instead.

Let's try this one: https://aje.io/78f3r5

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqg440v0gxo

They are not doing the bombing in Gaza. They are protecting the ones doing the bombing in Gaza.

There is only one context in which Palestine Action is "a terrorist organization such as Hamas" and that's the depraved legislation that the idiots in Westminster passed. The bravery of the 83 year old priest this article is about lays bare the depravity and stupidity of this absolutely idiotic legislation. Your comment on the other hand, by using this idiotic comparison buys into this aberrant degeneracy. Why do you do that?

Damaging equipment that is being used to conduct genocide is not vandalism, it's human fucking decency.

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