Yeh TBF I didn't look super hard for higher quality stats, but as you say, it's hard to get data. Ideally you'd want something comprehensive you could run ad-hoc queries on, but I didn't see anything like that 😅. I guess some subletting will be going on without any official paper trail, so the lower end of rent probably won't be visible anywhere (e.g. renting from relatives) -- I doubt there's any way to collate that data at all...
It's been Labour policy for over a decade that Palestine should be recognised, but that was in conflict with a governmental position that only states that 'exist' in some stable sense could be recognised. The balance tipped, I guess, and now the former outweighs the latter. Don't think it's quite as suss as made out.
I think it's one of those things which technically enables some stuff (embassies or some shit? The reframing of Israel as literally invading another country, rather than committing sins against ppl whose homeland exists but doesn't exist?) but probably won't have much on an impact and is more designed to say 'hehm. Ackshually it is not totally super cool what you guys are doing'. But then we probably continue to sell them components and widgets that ultimately get used in war machines because dude have you seen the way predominantly-English-speaking nations act towards those that aren't? But like I think it as at least something, and will likely have implications of technical legality that make some enablement of Israel more difficult or even impossible as the new setting takes hold. Maybe.
Of course by that time...
But let's hold onto some tiny modicum of hope, because what else is there. Even a teaspoon of water in the desert is better than mouth of sand.
Of course you're already know this because you're super duper smart and awesome and just such a font of moral wisdom, there are never any grey spaces with you, it's amazing the clarity that comes to me in those brief moments where you're here to help guide me
Good stuff, hope you find this a productive way of engaging yourself in discussion. Would hate for you to have to see a rude word (that you hadn't yourself posted, Obviously. You're special and get special rules because you're so great and we all love you)
Mate. The point I'm here to make is : calling what's happening in Palestine the worst genocide since the Holocaust of the Jewish people is not a strictly accurate claim by most metric I would expect to measure it by (total death count or proportion of population being the two most obvious ones, hence Cambodia because that was fuckinc rough). Will it eventually achieve that notorious level of savagery? I hope not. I hope the cunts are shamed into behaving. But it behoovs you you remember that there are many many terrible things going on and which have already gone on, and some sweeping statements with no basis in anything quantitative can look very much like erasure.
That's Cambodia I'm talking about btw. It's one of the other genocides. Of which there are far too many to be remotely comfortable. One is evil incarnate. Do not think for a second I am trying to make excuses.