₦airaland Forum

givedemwotowoto:
DOA. Premature. Shouldn't pass. Palestine needs freedom from Hamas first. Giving them a state is as good as handing a country into the hands of Hamas. Next thing, Iran will ship weapons to them to launch more attacks on Israel

Efuaye:
For years, the Palestinians advocated for Israel's complete destruction and rejected the idea of a two-state solution.
Now that they have lost every war with Israel, the Arábs believe that "half bread is better than none."

mascot87:
Two state solution will never see the light of the day. Giving Palestine a state is like giving Boko Haram a state in the North. It will be a suicide mission.

esnbrutality:
Same People shouting free PALESTINE can't FREE KWARA

Anyway, ..@op, when the same USA recognizes BIAFRA don't choke and start asking for Nigerian senators and house of reps to push the motion.

Just know that everyone is taking NOTEs

SmartPolician:
That two-state solution is long overdue. Since the days of late Yasser Arafat, it has been a burning issue. It's surprising that up till now it hasn't been implemented. The region needs sustainable peace. The two parties should embrace it and coexist.

Democrats plan to introduce the Senate’s first-ever resolution calling for the U.S. government to recognize a Palestinian state, escalating a push from the party’s progressive flank to take a firmer stance as Israel resumes its full-scale war in Gaza.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (Oregon) will unveil the measure Thursday, ahead of a similar effort next week by Rep. Ro Khanna (California) in the House.

“I recognize it will be a handful of us who will sign this initial resolution, but I think support for America to weigh in will grow,” Merkley said in an interview. “It’s probably way past time.”

The resolution calls for a “demilitarized” Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders and governed by the Palestinian Authority. It has five co-sponsors, mostly hailing from the party’s progressive wing.

The largely symbolic measure is expected to fail but marks the latest attempt by lawmakers on the left to preempt the rapidly changing politics toward Israel within their party. Almost two years into the war in Gaza, which has killed more than 65,000 people according to the Gaza Health Ministry, Democrats are torn over their historic support for Israel and a young progressive base that is appalled by the conflict’s toll on civilians.

Progressive groups protested the Biden administration’s support for Israel across the country last summer. Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has cracked down on such demonstrators and publicly backed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump represent America’s future,” Khanna said in an interview last week. “We’ve had the unfortunate coincidence of being covered by 80-year-olds for over a decade.”

Still, at times even Trump has been frustrated by Netanyahu’s relentless campaign against Israel’s enemies.

“I’m not thrilled about it,” Trump told reporters last week, following Israel’s strike against Hamas leadership in Qatar.

At a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Thursday, Trump said that recognizing a Palestinian state was one of the few areas of “disagreement” between the two leaders and that his main priority was to secure the release of the remaining hostages still held by Hamas.

“I want it to end, but I want the hostages back,” Trump said of the war.

Since losing the Senate and White House last year, Democrats have debated whether the party’s stance on Israel contributed to an electoral drubbing. Many lawmakers have also grown increasingly alarmed at the dire humanitarian conditions within the Gaza Strip, which is experiencing critical food shortages and mass evacuations as Israeli tanks and jets launch a new offensive to occupy Gaza City.

Merkley and Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) visited Israel and the West Bank in August, saying the Israeli government was carrying out an “ethnic cleansing” of the Palestinian people.

Their position is growing more mainstream among even vocal supporters of Israel within the party. Rep. Adam Smith (Washington), the moderate top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, called for the U.S. to withhold some security aid from Israel to pressure the Netanyahu government to end the Gaza war.

“I believe it is time for the United States government to stop the sale of some offensive weapons systems to Israel as leverage” to force a ceasefire and increase humanitarian aid, Smith said in a statement.

Similar measures by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) in late July failed, though more than half of Senate Democrats voted in favor.

In interviews, Merkley, Van Hollen and Khanna referenced recent polling that shows a plummet in Israel’s favorability among the American public, especially among younger voters. They predicted the issue could unite Democratic voters with the more isolationist wing of the Republican Party.

On the right, some Republican lawmakers have also grown increasingly critical of Netanyahu, with MAGA-aligned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Georgia) the first in her party to label Israel’s war a “genocide.”

Greene had submitted an amendment to block U.S. military support for Israel in the House’s major defense policy bill, which passed last week, but a House panel did not allow the measure to come up for a vote.

In recent months, longtime U.S. allies from Canada to France have publicly committed to supporting a Palestinian state while trying to pressure Netanyahu to end the Gaza war. That group includes Britain, where Trump is making a state visit this week.

Commentor:
The walls are closing in.

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Elusive001:
Israel WILL reclaim her Judea and Samaria and Gaza. Just relax and see how it happen.

mikeapollo:
You can continue to deceive yourself.
Where were you when Israel bombarded Iran and killed hundreds of their top generals in 12 days?
You should rather tell Iran to try and fire missiles at Israel once again and see what will happen to them. If you do not know, Israel is still in full air dominance over Iran and they can fly their warplanes in and out of Iran and nothing will happen to them.

sweetkev:
America will deny you visa if you are interested in going there with all these comments.

GiftofGod77:
It is irrational in every ramifications. I know they have an unwritten policy of collateral damage to serve as deterrent but for how long can it go on in the face of the international community....and what could be the wider implications for the whole world? Do you know it can cause a global war? If not handled well ...

ElonEmpire:
It is not a conspiracy theory it is fact. Mossad carry out Oct 7 attack.
How on earth will u believe that Hamas has means and resources to plan and execute attack of such scale at Israel back yard without Israel notice?
It is not possible

owobokiri:
Lots of innocent Lebanese, Iranians and Palestinians have been killed but that is no "red line" for a brainwashed Nigerian like you..

It becomes and absolute provocation once American lives are involved. So I ask you; where the Americans created on Sundays and othere were created on a bad day?

How can you as a Nigerian so happily accept that your life is of less importance to that of another human being.., so much so that you gingerly and proudly espouse such inebriated opinion without caution?

What level of Inferiority complex propels this generation of Nigerians that has made you guys so susceptible to western mental colonisation and eternal manipulations? People died and you are not perturbed. You are more offended by the "Americans" that died!? Are the Americans some sort of extraterrestrial beings whose lives have become more important to the rest of us??


Nigerians watch too.much CNN shaaa

PepeXKermit:
They are the people that end up beimg the terrorists you see tomorrow. Imagome if i had my family killed im palestine as a palestinian. I must be hamas by force.

Kukutente23:
Lol
Starmer is now your new lord and saviour
Same Britain that gave the land back to Israel

Geovanni412:
The UK is the number one cause of the problem

They annexed Israel to the Zionists for the support of the Rothschilds in world war Ii

Don't trust the obroni

Don't trust the British man, he lies a lot.

Phnuel007:
Fake numbers as usual. fake data

tpain121:
you wish !😁 how Iran wan take stop them ?
The same Iran that are still in shock, still licking their wounds and have started minding their business?
Do you hear them make noise again?

BodyCount:
Dogs have eaten dogs


The world is definitely a better place within terrorists.

One day Palestinians will seek vengeance too

jaxxy:
Lebanon government should work with Israel to flush out terrorists harbouring their state.