Kasz216 said:
TheLivingShadow said:
Kasz216 said:
Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
Eh, it's less "Fair Share" more "The US supports Israel."
If the US didn't support Israel... like say this exact situation happened elsewhere, practically no country would support Palestine because they would see it as a legitamization of "seperatists". It's the same reason countries like... Spain don't recognize Kosovo.
Most of the world supports Palsestine because the United States supports Israel, there is in general a large alliance of countries that vote the opposite of the US on every measure from Israel to global kitten appreciation day.
Now Europe. Europe's backing off of Israel is actually a pretty interesting long term political development that began with a strange marriage of the Europeon Leftwing and Muslim Immigrants. The Leftwing pretty much ignoring some of the more problematic issues from the immigration such as woman's rights for the voter support.
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It's a different case with Palestine actually. They aren't seperatists so much as an occupied people - no state claims that Palestine is a sovereign part of Israel. As such countries that are afraid of the idea of seperatism such as China, Russia or Spain can feel much more comfortable about a Palestinian state.
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Ask the Basque seperatists if there is a difference. They will say no.
There really isn't any difference at all. In general Palesetine support is mostly just based around the same NAM stuff as usual, which is, be against stuff the US is for and will Veto anyway, because why not.
It's similar to why Julian Assange is sitting in an Ecuadorian embassy right now even though if he did the same thing in equador he'd of been shot long ago. (Well except that's to thumb it's nose at the British, not US.)
The only people who really remotely care are those adjacent to the issue because of all the refugee camps.
Where the countries actually tend to treat the refugees worse then the Israeli's treat Gaza.
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Hey, I'm actually Ecuadorian, and I can point out that while the current president hates irresponsible press (and that's what they are really, things here are very corrupt), nobody has been misterously murdered due to different opinions!
Also, though the government press is way too biased, I would like it if the private press learned to be ethical.
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http://www.dc4mf.org/en/content/ecuadorian-journalist-shot-dead
Which is just a local corruption case.
If a Journalist leaked confidential information about equador you don't think they'd be killed for treason?
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Well, local corruption is different. I can easily believe that happened. But if the ruling party (PAIS) could be linked to that assasination in any way, you'd better believe that the opposing press would cover that.
Also, about the journalist leaking confidential information, probably so. But the corruption in Ecuador is so common that you cannot just brush the president or the ruling party as the cause for the corruption.
For example, take my home city, Portoviejo. There was this vigilante, Mauricio Montesdeoca, also called "El Justiciero" (Justice Man), who systematically tracked down the worst criminals of the city and killed them, sometimes in grueling ways. He did that because all his brothers were murdered by thieves (he came from an affluent family). He actually ran for mayor in the last mayor elections, but lost. Anyways, a few weeks after the mayor elections, he was murdered by gun shot in the private community where he lived. There were rumors about the police being involved in his murder, but in any case, the fact that the assassins could get inside the community is itself a big problem!