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May 2Liked by Jordan Zakarin

"'There are no half measures. [The Gazan cities of] Rafah, Deir al-Balah, Nuseirat – total annihilation,' Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Monday. ''You will blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven' – there's no place under heaven.'

Maybe a student should put that on a sign; it’s the only way it’ll get any attention right now."

What a stinging rebuke. What an absolutely absurd time to be alive.

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I think we all know that the 35,000 figure is a fantasy. The incessant bombardment has likely led to a multiple of this figure. Even if the war stopped tomorrow, the mortality rate will skyrocket.

Any shred of credibility we had with the African continent has been decimated.

Meanwhile, Biden is barrelling toward a Democratic convention in Chicago that will end in disaster...between bad-faith media, bad-faith right-wingers, and a wilfully blind administration, the signs all point to a domestic wildfire.

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