Newly sworn Minneapolis City Council takes on Israel-Hamas war

[sarisataka]

Newly sworn Minneapolis City Council takes on Israel-Hamas war

At its first meeting under new leadership, the Minneapolis City Council on Monday dove headlong into one of the most polarizing topics of the day: the bloody Israel-Hamas war.

In their first meeting after being sworn in for two-year terms, council members voted to discuss a symbolic resolution on the conflict — amid chants from a crowd of people critical of Israel's continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip following Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

The council did not vote to take a formal position. But what would normally be a largely ceremonial "organizational meeting" turned into a raucous affair when five council members proposed amending the agenda to tackle the issue.

Minutes after being elected by his colleagues, new Council President Elliott Payne marked his first use of the gavel trying to bring the meeting to order as some members of the crowd shouted over council members.

https://www.startribune.com/newly-sworn-minneapolis-city-council-takes-on-israel-hamas-war/600333297/

If Minneapolis decides to further take up this matter I desperately hope we will not see the naked antisemitism and falsehoods that have been seen at several other cities' meetings. I like to think we are better than that.

[Ocelot II]

1. Good grief, they need to stay the f*ck out of this.

Cities don't make foreign policy; whatever resolution the council might come up with has absolutely no effect on anything and won't do anything other than piss off some significant number of people. What Minneapolis needs to do do is hire more and better cops and fix a bunch of potholes, not embroil itself in an intractable and divisive international issue that it can't influence anyhow.

[question everything]

2. There seems to be widespread agreement.. to call for a cease-fire

What do they think existed before October 7?

[iemanja]

3. I hate grandstanding

This has f all to do with the city council. Their sense of self-importance is too much.