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Diana B. Greenwald

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assistant professor of political science @ city college of new york | states and conflicts over them | local politics | palestine | political economy | maps | likes: music, chocolate, canines and other creatures | views mine but will strive to listen

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(Maybe a pipe dream, but who knows!)

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The first copies of my book have made it to Palestine. 🇵🇸 Now, to try to raise the money to translate it to Arabic. 🤞🙏

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Reporting from over a month ago on mounting concerns about Biden’s declining sharpness/health. WH staff have been trying to deflect attention from this for a while. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Reading recs welcome — not necessarily on Trumpism but ideology in general These Days™️. (In contemporary social science, perhaps much of this stuff is subsumed under the literature on populism…) /2

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I’ve been thinking today about ideology in the post-Cold War era and, e.g., the extent to which Trumpism represents a (semi-) coherent ideology rather than an opportunistic coalition of interest groups/voting blocs. Or is that all that “ideology” is? /1

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Strong “everything must go!” vibes

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The Biden debate disaster has been a reminder of the (small-c) conservative tendencies of many Americanists in my discipline. Risk aversion is perfectly defensible, but not if you’re only going to weigh the risks of one course of action (switching nominees) and not the other (staying with Biden).

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A couple reactions: 1) Biden didn’t just make a series of gaffes or seem under the weather. There were clear signs of cognitive decline. I am frankly shocked if anyone did *not* see that. 2) I don’t think it is only about electability, it is also about turnout. Gen Z, for one, has left the building.

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Love it when I fail at swaddling the baby and she just looks like she’s wearing a super casual toga

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Palestinians will, of course, continue to resist and fight for their liberation. /4

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To be clear, these are all variants of the same thing: recipes for indefinite Israeli military occupation, the continued decimation of Palestinian land, infrastructure & life, while those besieged & encircled by this regime are denied any means of self-defense, hope, or the most basic of rights. /3

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Former general Israel Zvi proposes “that Palestinians who are ready to denounce Hamas could register to live in fenced-off geographic islands located next to their neighborhoods and guarded by the Israeli military. This would entitle them to reconstruction of their homes.” /2

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WSJ reports on various plans circulating in Israeli government, military and think tank circles to containerizs Palestinians into “islands,” “bubbles,” or geographic sections of Gaza. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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“…support for the far right has always been strong among Toulon’s large community of “pieds-noirs”…The National Front’s warnings of French decline resonated with those who experienced economic hardship & a sense of betrayal after Algeria gained independence...” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

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“He’s become like a Palestinian but they don’t like him he’s a bad Palestinian“ Omg I’m dying 😭😭😭😂

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These two guys are running for what office exactly

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“[T]he authors recommend leaving Hamas’s middle management in place to run Gaza.” Of course they do, because there is no viable alternative.

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I am glad you are optimistic about, at the very least, possible elex leading to the formation of a new govt that could sign onto the existing CF framework. And glad you are optimistic about that 30% not holding the rest of the country hostage to their agenda. Yes, ending the war is the hard part.

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Really great, fog-clearing summary of where things stand, from Alex Kane with observations from Zaha Hassan, Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Mairav Zonszein, Daniel Levy, and Mohannad Ayyash: jewishcurrents.org/why-ceasefir...

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I wonder if removing Bibi is necessary but not sufficient. What would be a winning campaign message on how to “end the war” for a would-be PM? I.e. would a new government be able to ditch the impossible condition of destroying Hamas’s “military & governing capabilities” and survive politically?

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Both scenarios assume far-right (Ben Gvir, Smotrich, settler movement) is the primary impediment to Israel accepting the broad parameters that have been put forward for a CF. Is this true? I know they’ve been the most vocal in their opposition…

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Can you get me to the ceasefire part?

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There is a still-developing plan in the Biden administration to propose the establishment of a broadly defined "Palestinian Council", made up partially of PA officials but also other unnamed figures, to govern Gaza with Arab League peacekeepers led by a U.S. civil appointee. 🧵

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It’s hard to even want to answer these questions anymore. /END

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Of course, for the present moment, it is also quite possible that being Palestinian and living through 10/7 and the ensuing war on Gaza will swamp any generational effects. The trauma will be equally felt and impactful across cohorts. /3

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Mark Tessler and I found indications of generational effects in young men’s attitudes toward the PA in the wake of the First Intifada & Oslo, when resistance (temporarily) dwindled, and new Palestinian institutions were subordinated to the occupation: brill.com/view/journal... /2

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While age, not one’s generational membership, often seems to define political attitudes, something tells me that today’s Palestinian teens and young adults will indeed carry the scars of this era with them over their life course. www.wsj.com/world/middle... /1

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Room temperature never made sense to me as a concept. I have been in hot rooms, cold rooms, and moderate rooms.

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This is just to say You have not Completed The mandatory training That was due Friday Forgive me I have notified Your manager

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Some things truly are the sum of their parts.

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The only way I survived this with email was through Gmail’s introduction of tabs. They need to invent something similar for texts

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The amount of political fundraising and frankly spam texts I receive has reached new levels! Lose my number, all of you!

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Now, with the ascent of figures like Bezalel Smotrich and the Israeli government’s normalization of eliminationist, genocidal rhetoric and deeds, Israel seeks Palestinian intermediaries who are completely “denationalized”, subservient only to the Israeli regime of domination. /2

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From 1994 until recently, it was acceptable to successive Israeli governments that an entity called the PA could function as an intermediary in Israel’s colonial regime, policing Palestinians for Israel’s benefit and providing some basic goods/services. /1 www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

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Urgent call for assistance to avert water/sanitation/health catastrophe in Gaza City municipality. The baladiyya has been unflagging and resolute in its efforts to sustain basic services and repair damaged infrastructure until now.

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“The effort was sloppy…In at least two instances, accounts with profile photos of Black men posted about being a “middle-aged Jewish woman.” 😂
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/t...

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We've been a bit silent here but if you haven't yet, you really should give our Spring 2024 newsletter a read! Most of the issue is dedicated to Gaza and has 13 (!) incredible contributions + the intro of the symposium by @nerminallam.bsky.social @dbgreenwald.bsky.social & Noora Lori

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