Jon Stewart nails it: Immediate ceasefire, Hamas ain't going away, METO in the Middle East

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Jon Stewart on Israel - Palestine | The Daily Show

I would never underestimate the power of grassroots and spontaneous action in both Israel and the United States to force change.

In Israel, there is this:

The reason that could work is this:

Opinion polling for the next Israeli legislative election

People are ready to dump Bibi The Butcher.  If an election were held today, Gaetz would win a commanding plurality. He could likely form a coalition with Lapid and a few other minor parties, if these numbers hold up.

As that chart indicates, time may once again be working in Netankillyu's favor.  Support for Likud plummeted, but appears to have hit bottom and may be starting to come back.  Bibi is a master at dancing and pausing and saying whatever the fuck he has to say in order to keep surviving until tomorrow and eventually get much of what he wants.  He has managed to block any real attempt at peace that way for about a generation.  So the people demanding immediate change and an immediate election are smart.  Nothing can get better under Netankillyu.  He brought Israel to this point.  He empowered Hamas.

There is overwhelming support in Israel for an election "as early as possible."

Israel Hayom poll: Overwhelming support for early election, Right loses majority

Whether they actually intend to or not, polls of young voters in the US are basically starting to say this:  "Either Bibi goes, or Biden goes,  Your choice."  Bibi wants a permanent occupation and siege.  As Stewart says, that's not peace.  It means next time they'll try to kill 30,000 Jews, even if they have to do it with kitchen utensils.  The idea that Hamas, or the ideas that empower Hamas, are somehow going to go away is idiotic.  Especially after the IDF just killed 30,000 Palestinians, with the body count growing by the day.  The idea that more and deeper hopelessness and hatred - not for days, or weeks, or months, but for years to come is somehow going to end with "peace" is ridiculous.  

The most idiotic thing many Israelis are saying is that somehow seeking peace now rewards Hamas.  Killing 30,000 Palestinians and counting, mostly women and kids, punishes Hamas.  Whether Palestinians or the world like it or not, it just happened.  Killing tens of thousands more Palestinians and creating as much hopelessness and hatred as possible is what rewards Hamas.  Netankillyu has been an expert at doing that.  Which may be why Israel is finally ready to fire him.

Stewart may be older.  But he is the adult in the room now, calling on the adults in the room to act.  He's right.

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One of the tower's 300 residents told Reuters that Israel gave them a 30-minute warning to flee the building at night.

"People were startled, running down the stairs, some fell, it was chaos. People left their belongings and money," said Mohammad Al-Nabrees, adding that among those who tripped down the stairs during the panicked evacuation was a friend's pregnant wife.