"U.S. border agents allowed him and his family to enter the United States on what is called parole, usually given for humanitarian reasons." (He is fleeing criminal investigations in his country!) "Trump said later that afternoon that Mr. Bolsonaro had been given 'a pass' to enter the country."

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Not an excuse but: Even in general lots of people are just not equipped to understand statements like "these two concepts are irreconcilable," even if they might be sympathetic. That's liberal arts shit.

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By all means I sincerely and genuinely think if the pro-Israel lobby wants to insist on having this debate on these terms we should do so. It just so happens that my position is way more popular and theirs is putrid to anyone who isn't a crazy right winger already.

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It is usually extremely difficult as a Palestinian to convince Western liberals that Zionism and liberal-democratic egalitarianism are actually juxtaposed to one another within Israeli discourse, but here is the FDD saying exactly that, except they want you to choose Zionism over liberal-democracy.

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One thing I've always genuinely believed is that actions like this are the right thing to do in a totally unilateral sense, ie the Iraqi government and Algeria etc should endeavor to do this as well. It should be done w/o any tying of it to the question of the Palestinian right of return as well.

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