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Elise Stefanik, President Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the UN, stated during her confirmation hearing that Israel has a "biblical right" to the occupied West Bank, aligning with far-right Israeli officials.

Stefanik sidestepped support for Palestinian self-determination, blaming their leadership for failures.

Her stance signals a shift from Biden-era opposition to Israeli settlements, with Trump lifting sanctions on Israeli settler groups and nominating pro-settlement figures like Mike Huckabee for key roles.

Stefanik also vowed to audit UN funding and block aid to Palestinian refugee agencies.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

therefore american indians have a birthright to 100% of the united states, right? right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't say so in the Bible though, tough luck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Not in that new-old-fashioned one, but the Book of Mormon's got them covered.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, no, not like that. The whites had manifest destiny!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Mormons seen nervously filing away all that "Native Americans are the lost tribes of Israelites" real quickly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The white Native Americans who sailed over from Jerusalem. The dark-skinned ones are cursed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ha, i forgot about that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't trump want to get rid of birthright citizenship? We can just retroactively do it to 1500AD, and give the land back. What's that? Not like that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hmmm I’ll have to check what Moses said about that

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

We did it, Patrick. We saved Palestine.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let the shoulder patting commence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

As recently as yesterday, someone on Lemmy was showcasing to me the cease-fire Trump skillfully engineered in Gaza, with his straight-talking diplomatic skills, as an example of what Biden could have been doing any time he felt up to getting on Trump's level, and a reason why Trump was better.

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[–] towerful 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Kamala would've nuked it.
You know, hormones and the predisposition to genocide, or whatever.
Great work everyone.
As a bonus, we get to:


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Declare everyone as biologically female (because at inception, all embryos are female. It's only after 6-7 weeks that the y chromosome kicks in an makes it biologically male. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK222286/, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/ - note the "at conception" points)).

As somebody who has done courses in gender studies it is painful how plain wrong and unscientific this is. Sure will be true for a lot of the other ones (especially climate). The sex ideology one (and contrary to their claim they of course are the ones with an ideology, because that is what you have when you ignore reality and make up your own truth based on falsehood) will do a lot of harm on the short term. There are real people out there who's whole existence just got denied. My heart goes out (without a Sieg Heil, but in an empatic way) to all the Transpeople, Intersex People, Non-Binary People and all others who just got their identity denied. Please stay safe and hold tight. There are sane cis people out here who know you exist and stand by your side. For what ever that will be worth in the time to come.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And so has Russia to the Donbas, and so has China to Taiwan, and so has North Korea to South Korea, ans so has Germany to Silesia and Prussia and so have native Americans to America.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'd expect that she's not saying "they lived on it a long time ago", but rather "God gave it to the Israelites according to the Bible".

Exodus 23: 27-31:

I will have the terror of me precede you, so that I will throw into panic every nation you reach. I will make all your enemies turn from you in flight, and ahead of you I will send hornets to drive the Hivites, Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. But I will not drive them all out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you. Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you have grown numerous enough to take possession of the land. I will set your boundaries from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates; all who dwell in this land I will hand over to you and you shall drive them out before you. You shall not make a covenant with them or their gods. They must not live in your land. For if you serve their gods, this will become a snare to you.

Like, divine will and such.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This particular god is obviously genocidal. People who worship him are immoral cowards at best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, the guy is the god of the Abrahamic religions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religions

Christianity is the largest Abrahamic religion with about 2.5 billion adherents, called Christians, constituting about 31.1% of the world's population.[158] Islam is the second largest Abrahamic religion, as well as the fastest-growing Abrahamic religion in recent decades.[158][159] It has about 1.9 billion adherents, called Muslims, constituting about 24.1% of the world's population. The third largest Abrahamic religion is Judaism with about 14.1 million adherents, called Jews.[158] The Baháʼí Faith has over 8 million adherents, making it the fourth largest Abrahamic religion,[160][161] and the fastest growing religion across the 20th century, usually at least twice the rate of population growth.[162] The Druze Faith has between one million and nearly two millions adherents.[163][164]

That'd be most of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

So, what's your point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That there are a lot of them doesn't make the other poster wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mongolia has joined the chat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Germany, because I'm German and my God told me so.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

what a disgusting thing to say.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Who released the leopards?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These fucking cunts either pretend to believe in fairy tales or really do believe in fairy tales, and I’m not sure which is worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Right doesn't it feel like seeing grown ass adults believing in Santa Claus?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You know what the bible also says, Elise?

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.

-- 1 Timothy 2:12

Please STFU Elise Stefanik as is your biblical right, nay duty, thus sayeth your lord.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In that case, Spain has a divine right to all parts of the US west of the Tordesillas Meridian. The pope said so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish I could live to see the day where citing the Bible in support of an argument gets you laughed out of the fucking room.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ive waited for that day since I was a child

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure she's not as amenable to all the biblical rights that men have over her.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Bitch, stop using those antique salt-crusted scrolls for modern law making, and put them back in the museum. Where they belong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Felon rapist using Bible to promote genocide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The bible is just a story book, and if you take it so seriously that you support what is happening over there right now then you're fucked.

Fight me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Then don’t be surprised about Muslims following the Quran to the letter

• Surah Al-Hajj (22:39-40)

“Permission [to fight] has been given to those who are being fought, because they were wronged. And indeed, Allah is competent to give them victory. [They are] those who have been evicted from their homes without right—only because they say, ‘Our Lord is Allah.’ …”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

So they don't have a right to it is what you're saying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Giving the history of US voting in the UN on anything Israel related being No, this doesnt make any difference.

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