fordy 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(more radical aprts) 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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To say that other countries are no longer supporting Israel "because the US does" is a very illogical, ignorant, and borderline insulting stance. To say this is to denounce the foreign policy of said established states, which I seriously doubt would be to just "be against the United States".
Use a bit of Occam's Razor here. Why would Israel, formally in huge support, be losing support? Because the actions they take each time become more and more extreme, and conflict with more foreign policies of said states. To say that states' motive is to be against the US is saying that these states are too stupid to develop any foreign policy.
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That's not what Occam's razor is... not even remotely.
The nations I am talking about never widely supported Israel... most in fact mostly recognized Palestine as a country in the late 1980's.
Support has really only been slipping in Europe due to political realties on the ground and voting demographics.
Israel's actions even currently as in during this war, are a lot less extreme then back when they had Europeon support are you kidding me?
Look up some of the ridiculious stuff Israel did back when they had full backing unwavering Europeon Support.
The last 6 years or so have been moderate in comparison.
