Hi Fester,

You asked why do I believe UNRWA and not Israel?

Because for more than 70 years UNRWA has provided support
for Palestinian refugees across the Middle East despite
the organizations clash with Israeli officials over its
work.

Israel has repeatedly accused UNRWA employees without
providing proof and also by its continued blockades of
humanitarian aid. UNRWA has been a victim to a fierce
disinformation campaign to portray the agency as a
terrorist organization and yet the organization has
delivered two thirds of all food assistance and
provided shlter to over a million displaced people.

Banjo,

This is just a case of taking some words that you consider to be derogatory and then applying them to people you disagree with, without the slightest effort to show how they apply.

And then amazingly, while making a list of authoritarian, illiberal, imperialistic leaders, you somehow manage to leave Putin and Xi OFF the list. Anyone doing that has no place claiming to have " a keen sense of justice and humanity" let alone "perspective".

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Aries creates a little fantasy scenario around GITMO and then proceeds to pretend its the real world. I'm not sure he can tell the difference.

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Trump's been in power for a week and the usual crowd have already forgotten how bad his predecessor was, how corrupt that regime had become, how low the US had fallen and how much work will be required to fix it. But being on the left has always meant having a very short memory.

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"we all know that the Gallop poll is a ' ... left wing Marxist plot ...' don't we?"

Aries returns to his fantasy world. He must find it comforting there.

Meanwhile Rasmussen finds Trump approval at 53% and most surprisingly, higher among blacks and Hispanics than among whites.

See Aries, we can all cherry-pick our data if that's your bent.

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Oh BTW, why aren't all those who whined for over a year that we needed a ceasefire in Gaza praising Trump's efforts in achieving it. Or would their heads explode if they did that. I guess we're in for four years of the TDS crowd never actually seeing his successes. We've been there before.

This has sparked an outcry. Why aren't you condemning that?
Foxy,
Because I see it it as the best opportunity yet for these economic refugees to return to their homelands & rebuild them rather than keep running away. The outcries are from the western do-gooders who have no intention of helping them.
What would be the ultimate outcome if no stop is put to such migration ? I'm certain that you'd be one of the last to take in refugees & outnumber you in your own home. If the Woke are as compassionate as they demand others to be why don't they offer to work in those countries & help build them up so that refugees reduce in numbers asap !

"This has sparked an outcry"

There was no outcry.

There was the usual tantrums from the usual crowd for the usual reasons. But most USians fully support Trump's efforts to get the violent members of the illegals the hell out of their country, their cities, their communities.

What Trump's critics fear most about him is that, unlike other politicians, he keeps his promises. A majority of Americans knew that he means what says, and they installed him in a landslide.

Trump doesn't play by the established rules of politics, as the lefty media and the lunatic left expect all politicians to do; and they will keep screeching and pulling out their hair for the next 4 years when, hopefully, JD Vance will take over, giving us another term of entertainment from the nutbag losers.

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Dear mhaze,

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You wrote :

1. « This is just a case of taking some words that you consider to be derogatory and then applying them to people you disagree with, without the slightest effort to show how they apply »
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Perhaps you’re right, mhaze. The reason I provided definitions for each of the words (populism, authoritarianism, illiberalism and imperialism) was, as I indicated to Zero, to allow the reader “to compare the precise description of each qualifier with what Trump actually says and does”.

As you say, I could have gone a step further and provided a complete inventory of Trump’s corresponding words and deeds – and deliver the final product – not just a DIY with a user manual.

I preferred the DIY method because it allows the reader to judge for himself.

As for Trump, I can’t say I have ever had a very favourable opinion of him. I found him surprisingly vulgar and stupid at times for someone of his intelligence and social status. He seems to reflect occasionally with his reptilian brain (primitive, instinctual brain), far too often (for my liking) with his limbic system (mammalian, emotional brain) but, happily, on a more regular basis, with his neocortex (rational human brain).

I made this observation when examining his words and deeds. That is how I proceeded, not the other way around. I did not commence with a predetermined conclusion and apply that to Trump as you suggest.
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2. « … while making a list of authoritarian, illiberal, imperialistic leaders, you somehow manage to leave Putin and Xi OFF the list »
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I did not make a list, mhaze. I simply indicated the names of three political leaders to illustrate my point. I could have cited Putin and Xi but felt that they were better described as tyrants. Perhaps you will agree that Trump, Orban, Erdogan and Milei have not yet reached that stage of development - and hopefully, never will.
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