| Ryuu96 said: I don't see a way out of this honestly and it's depressing so I've largely avoided this thread, I'm already very busy on Ukraine's topic as well and watching Ukrainians being slaughtered, I don't really want to witness it with Palestinians too but I know it's going on. Imo all offensive aid to Israel should be stopped but I'm fine with defensive aid because Israel is surrounded by terrorists who want to see it destroyed (Hezbollah, Houthis, might as well add on Iran as a terrorist country... ... I will say as well there is a massive hypocrisy in how Israel is being defended by the West vs Ukraine, Israel gets fight jet support from UK, America, France...No restrictions or rules on how they use their weapons, whatever damn weapon they want to buy or use, feels like Israel bombing the foreign aid workers just got swept under the rug too. |
This I can basically agree with. The double-standard Westerners (not just our leaders either) often apply to the situation in Gaza probably exists because, between the two sides, Israel is the (relative) democracy and Hamas is the gay-killing, woman-enslaving, Holocaust-denying religious fundamentalist cult and also started this particular war in the first place, in contrast to the Russia-Ukraine War wherein the more liberal democracy is the one fighting for survival against a relatively arbitrary invasion. I don't think that discrepancy matters right now to the civilian population of Gaza who compose most of the dead, displaced, and malnourished. Survival is what matters right now.
We should definitely cut Israel off from offensive weaponry. I'm not in favor of broader sanctions against the Israeli public, but I think if you cut off the flow of offensive armaments, even someone like Netanyahu will respond to that, much as he appears to have responded to Biden's implied threat to cut them off last month by pulling a division out of Khan Younis. (Make no mistake, the withdrawal was pretty much for sure the end result of Biden's phone call with Netanyahu over the slain aid workers.) This is the leverage we have as Israel's main and most important diplomatic ally and it should be exercised.
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