The bipartisan support Israel and its powerful lobby have enjoyed for decades in the US—with lawmakers from both parties insisting the federal government must help Israel “defend itself” with nearly $4 billion per year in military aid—is likely to shift considerably in the coming years as public support for the country continues to collapse, particularly among young voters, in the latest Pew Research poll.

The survey was taken last month as the US-Israeli war on Iran, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly pitched to President Donald Trump in an unusual Situation Room meeting in February, was escalating and spreading across the Middle East. It found that overall, 60% of US adults had an unfavorable view of Israel.

That share has grown considerably since 2022, before Israel began its US-backed war on the population of Gaza in retaliation for a Hamas-led attack. That year, just 42% in the US viewed Israel unfavorably.

Public opposition to the country’s government has also gone up by seven percentage points since last year, according to Pew. The share of adults who describe themselves as having a “very unfavorable” view of Israel has gone up by 9% since 2025 and has nearly tripled since before Israel began waging war on Gaza.

If only this dislike would transform into political decisions.

^It’s difficult for me to acknowledge the ‘right to exist’ of a country that can’t (or won’t) define its own borders. I mean, we KNOW where other countries start and stop.

Boru

(April 9, 2026 at 1:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^It’s difficult for me to acknowledge the ‘right to exist’ of a country that can’t (or won’t) define its own borders. I mean, we KNOW where other countries start and stop.

Boru

Countries don't have right to exist in the first place. It's not a concept recognized by international law*. That aside only right that genocidal, warmongering regime should have in my view would be a right to a fair trial.


*https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/5/no-state-has-an-inherent-right-to-exist-not-even-israel

(April 9, 2026 at 1:59 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote:

(April 9, 2026 at 1:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^It’s difficult for me to acknowledge the ‘right to exist’ of a country that can’t (or won’t) define its own borders. I mean, we KNOW where other countries start and stop.

Boru

Countries don't have right to exist in the first place. It's not a concept recognized by international law*. That aside only right that genocidal, warmongering regime should have in my view would be a right to a fair trial.


*https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/5/no-state-has-an-inherent-right-to-exist-not-even-israel

I’m finding it harder and harder to disagree with that.

Boru

(April 9, 2026 at 2:03 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(April 9, 2026 at 1:59 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: Countries don't have right to exist in the first place. It's not a concept recognized by international law*. That aside only right that genocidal, warmongering regime should have in my view would be a right to a fair trial.


*https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/5/no-state-has-an-inherent-right-to-exist-not-even-israel

I’m finding it harder and harder to disagree with that.

Boru

As far as I am concerned it is time for world to wake up. israel ain't light of the nations, settled by chosen people. It's murderous, genocidal regime shitting on international law and cynically using atrocity that was Shoah to silence it's critics.

It's nothing more than rogue state.

Christians need to uplift Israel for their end-times prophecies to come true. As long as there is a powerful Christian lobby playing watchdog to prevent anyone undermining Israel, there isn't going to be any significant change.

The right to exist is not the same as the right to commit genocide. If you can't tell the difference, you probably shouldn't have either.

As Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum moves forward with a plan to enact universal healthcare for her country’s more than 130 million people, a longtime advocate for Medicare for All in the US called the development “both inspiring and frustrating.”

“Inspiring because it shows what is possible,” Wendell Potter, a former insurance company communications director who has become a leading critic of the industry, told Common Dreams. “Frustrating because here in the US we are going in the opposite direction.”

[...]

Beginning in 2027, her government plans to unify Mexico’s public health institutions into a single Universal Health Service, allowing patients across the country to receive care from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), the Social Security Institute and Social Services of Workers of the State (ISSSTE), and the IMSS‑Bienestar program, which provides free services to those without employer-provided insurance.

It's good to see that politicians at least sometimes actually do something good for citizens.

^And then there's this -

Quote:"It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said. “We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Boru

(April 11, 2026 at 2:30 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^And then there's this -

Quote:"It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said. “We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Boru

It would be height of naivete to expect anything else from fascist, neoliberal walking sack of shit.