This is sick and disgusting comparison. what does what i like in a video game story have anything with a genocide of children. When i mention the US i'm talking about the funding and the ones in power. with out the US funding this massacre in gaza would have suffered maybe 6000 deaths instead now we are near 30,000. you do realizes also the US has veto'd for a peaceful 2 state solution for the past 17 years while 90% of the world has passed the resolution.     

The US is not in full support, in fact most Americans want a ceasefire

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/12/5/voters-want-the-us-to-call-for-a-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-and-to-prioritize-diplomacy

A Majority of Voters Think U.S. Should Call for a Permanent Ceasefire 

When asked how knowledgeable they are about the Israel-Palestine conflict, 25% of voters say they have either an “extensive” or “proficient” level of knowledge, while 35% say they have a “moderate” knowledge level. Voters who get their news from social media are especially likely to consider themselves knowledgeable: 36% of voters who get news from Instagram, 33% of voters who get news from TikTok, and 30% of voters who get news from Facebook say they have extensive or proficient knowledge about the conflict.

Sixty-one percent of likely voters, including a majority of Democrats (76%) and Independents (57%) and a plurality of Republicans (49%), support the U.S. calling for a permanent ceasefire and a de-escalation of violence in Gaza. 

Those poll results were from late November, no doubt more people support a ceasefire now



It is however the majority of US congress that is either uniformed, sucking the teat of Aipac and/or too afraid to say anything.


And it's not just the USA that supports this war, many other countries buy and sell weapons from/to Israel and are now ready to defend the Red Sea from Houthi attacks, which would not happen if the war was ended.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-red-sea-taskforce-gets-limited-backing-some-allies-2023-12-20/

https://www.reuters.com/world/more-than-20-countries-now-part-us-led-red-sea-coalition-pentagon-2023-12-21/

WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - A total of more than 20 countries have agreed to participate in the new U.S.-led coalition safeguarding commercial traffic in the Red Sea from attacks by Yemen's Houthi movement as more nations join the effort, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

Still, the new Pentagon total would suggest that at least eight of the countries who have signed up have also declined to be publicly named, in a sign of political sensitivities of the operation as regional tensions soar over the Israel-Hamas war.

Yea when i talk about the US im talking about the one in control. I realize most americans don't care. its just not Palestine. the US has killed millions in the middle east cause it doesn't recognize Palestinians as human beings. imagine if the US was just somewhat  fair in this  conflict 9/11 would not have happened, and the war on terror which killed over 5 million would have been prevented along with isis. 

Without US funding and using its veto 42 times to block resolutions criticizing Israel, this would indeed never have gotten this far. The USA, influenced by Aipac, has created a feeling of impunity among Israel's right wing Zionist politicians and allowed the far right to take control of the government.

It has gone so far that the high court is removing its ability to review government decisions

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-27/ty-article/report-high-court-justices-poised-to-nullify-key-judicial-coup-law-passed-last-summer/0000018c-ac99-d22d-a3dd-bdf985e20000

Israeli High Court Justices Poised to Nullify Key Judicial Coup Law Passed Last Summer

According to the report, eight out of 15 justices support to nullify the law that removes the court's ability to conduct judicial review on government decisions. A final ruling will be announced in the coming weeks. Israel's Judicial Authority refused to 'acknowledge' the 'unverified leaks'

The amendment to Israeli quasi-constitutional Basic Law, abolishing the reasonableness clause was approved by coalition lawmakers in July, and stands as a cornerstone in the judicial overhaul spearheaded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yariv Levin since the beginning of their term earlier this year until the October 7 attack and the ensuing Gaza war.

The reasonableness clause pertains to a provision that requires government actions to be reasonable and proportionate, and served as a benchmark for legal evaluations and judicial reviews of government decisions.



If anything, this war is a stark warning to Europe, voting for right wing politicians as a protest vote to current government woes is a terrible idea.

It's not as anything like this came as a surprise
https://www.liberationnews.org/israel-at-75-fascist-apartheid-and-genocidal-watchdog-for-us-imperialism/

That's from May, many months before the war

9/11 itself was blowback for earlier meddling from the CIA and other crap during the cold war. Terrorists already tried to take the WTC down in 1993.
See the second part of this article https://www.liberationnews.org/israel-at-75-fascist-apartheid-and-genocidal-watchdog-for-us-imperialism/

Hammering Arab liberation

Nowhere has Israel’s role as a watchdog for imperialist interests more benefited its sponsor than in the Middle East. Israel has been an ever-menacing hammer against the Arab countries — especially more progressive governments — that won real independence in the two decades after World War II.

Israel joined with the British and French imperialists in attacking Egypt and the new Nasser government in 1956.

Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, when it took over the West Bank, Gaza, Golan and Sinai, was a major blow to the more progressive nationalist forces, especially in Syria and Egypt. It was after this war that the U.S.-Israel alliance became what it is today.

In the mid-1970s, Israel intervened to support the fascist elements in Lebanon’s civil war. In 1978 and 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. In 1982, Israel occupied Beirut and carpet-bombed the capital throughout the summer. In 2006, Israel’s five-week assault on Lebanon deliberately destroyed much of the infrastructure, which had just been rebuilt after years of civil war that Israel helped fuel.

Israeli bombers destroyed an Iraqi nuclear power plant that was under construction at Osirak in 1981. This was at a time when the Iran-Iraq War was raging. The U.S. government was publicly “supporting” Iraq in its war against Iran — where the U.S.-installed Shah had been overthrown in 1979 — and did not want to take responsibility for such an extremely hostile act. As the Iran-Contra affair later revealed, the United States was supporting Iran as well as Iraq in the hopes that they would destroy each other.

In a thousand different ways, the existence of the state of Israel as an artificial and colonial state in the heart of the Arab world has profoundly distorted regional development for the benefit of imperialism, and to the detriment of the Arab and other peoples of the region. Today we are witness to frequent Israeli attacks in western Syria.

The leaders in Washington are above all businesspeople or their representatives. They are investors, who do not hand out money based on sentimentality or generosity. Sentimentality and imperialist diplomacy are mutually exclusive categories. As it has often been said, great powers have no permanent friends, only permanent interests.


It all goes back to the arrogance of the UK and France, carving up the middle East in the Sykes-Picot agreement in 1916, then the aftermath of WW2 where Russia and USA went from briefly working together to hating each other. The 'Red scare' further proliferated by the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan of 1947.

In 1949, anti-communist fear, and fear of American traitors, was aggravated by the Chinese Communists winning the Chinese Civil War against the Western-sponsored Kuomintang, their founding of the Communist China, and later China intervenes (October–December 1950) in the Korean War (1950–53) against U.S. ally South Korea

However the 'fear' of communism came earlier from the all too familiar fear of immigrants:

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which led many to fear that immigrants, particularly from Russia, southern Europe, and eastern Europe, intended to overthrow the United States government; The end of World War I, which caused production needs to decline and unemployment to rise.

As always, blaming immigrants for economic setbacks. Preying on people's fears to keep their support and to stay in power.


Will the cycle of fear, distrust, violence, oppression, genocide ever be broken? :/

Blame Columbus, if he had stayed home, the US would be very different today. Not colonized by the scum of Europe at the time. Although Great Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, Norway and Belgium would have still gone on colonizing to leave us the mess we have today.

‘Gaza has been destroyed… we have nowhere to live’

Displaced Palestinians found little to celebrate on New Year’s Eve in Muwasi, a makeshift camp in the mostly undeveloped area of southern Gaza’s Mediterranean coast designated by Israel as “a safe zone”.

I have pointed out few times that the situation as it is, is definitely not what the majority of the people anywhere in the west want, but I would hard pressed to say our governments are not in full support of genocide, 3 months into the conflict, this is not a question anymore. Even statements like "passively complicit" are wrong. 

I don't know what it is exactly, greed, fear of the Muslim world or caught like a deer in headlights. Western governments have always been pro Israel and not immune to Hasbara either. Some might simply refuse to believe what's actually happening, politicians are just people after all and maybe even more easily influenced by propaganda and dogmatic thinking. Politics are the original echo chambers.

Governments are also full of old people, most set in their ways, rigid in their thinking. Most of the opposition voices come from the younger generations, more resistant to propaganda and disinformation, more used to the lies of the internet and far less prone to take government officials and major news outlets at their word. Which are just as complicit with their self censorship, selective coverage and pushing their own agendas.

The irony

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-palestine-bbc-news-coverage-bias-gaza-war/

Broadcast journalists are sometimes accused of bias against Israel.

Such claims have been made, among others, by the pro-Israel media monitoring group BBC Watch and the right-of-centre press. More recently, the BBC was criticised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and a former BBC executive for not referring to Hamas as “terrorists”.

Academics analysed Israel-Palestine coverage and found Palestinian perspectives were given far less time and legitimacy

...

In 2023, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reaffirmed the centrality of the conflict’s backstory when he stated that the 7 October attacks “did not happen in a vacuum” and were related to the history of the occupation: “The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation,” he said. “They have seen their lands steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence, their economy stifled and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.”

Yet the BBC repeatedly gives reports of events without such context. For instance, on 23 November BBC Online reported that: “The conflict began when Gaza-based gunmen from Hamas attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 people and taking about 240 others hostage.”

The BBC’s coverage locates the origin of the conflict in the recent actions of Hamas – but Palestinians see themselves as resisting the actions of Israel stretching back decades.

In our earlier studies, which covered nearly five months of BBC One and ITV1 mass audience bulletins, we also found that, in the absence of context and history, BBC journalists would report the Palestinian “side” in terms of the suffering caused by the fighting. But the Palestinian perspective in terms of the reasons for the conflict was absent. The Israeli rationale, on the other hand, was often foregrounded in news reports.

I doubt most people in congress are pro genocide, but they took a stance for Israel early and now either have to somehow fool themselves into believing it was the right choice or admit that it's time to right the ship. A lot probably still refuse to see it as real, not allowing themselves to believe what's happening, it must be terrorist propaganda, can't really be that bad, we're the good guys!

Support is also highest in the USA and India, USA from the national trauma of 9/11 2001, India for 26/11 2008, both drawing parallels to October 7th, both never really looked into why those attacks happened. Or at least never told the public the rationale behind the attacks.

Oh look it's the UK again, about Jammu and Kashmir in particular
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/why-was-british-india-partitioned-in-1947-considering-the-role-of-muhammad-ali-0

Jammu and Kashmir is a region administered by India as a union territory and consists of the southern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.



There has also been a shift of not taking official organizations serious anymore (if they ever were). First the long campaigns discrediting global warming, then discrediting the WHO during Covid and even blaming them for the pandemic. Both eroding public support and political belief in the alarm bells these organizations ring. And of course the long culture of exaggeration, either trying to shock people into doing something or just to get clicks. Most people have shut themselves off from politics with the constant mud slinging between politicians.


The internet isn't helping either. Far too easy to get sucked into echo chambers, perpetuated by AI algorithms spoon feeding people their feeds. Nothing malicious in the algorithms, they simply serve up what you've been looking at before to get more of your attention. So once you lean to one side, you will only get more exposure to that side. Before the internet news papers were of course also biased, but people still talked more to neighbors instead of posting in echo chambers.

The internet is a great tool to find opposing views, yet far too few people do just that. It's so easy to get sucked into "recommended for you" and watch the next bias confirming video.


And those who know all too well how all of this works are the ones manipulating social media, mainstream media and politicians with targeted propaganda and disinformation campaigns. Social media is also complicit in genocides around the world.


The best new year's resolution is, think more for yourself.

Israel is further escalating the regional war with a drone attack in Beirut

Senior Hamas figure killed in attack in southern Beirut

US State Department denounces comments by far-right Israeli officials on resettlement of Palestinians

The US State Department on Tuesday rejected comments by far-right Israeli officials —Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir — calling for the resettlement of Gazans outside of Gaza, denouncing them as "inflammatory and irresponsible. We have been told repeatedly and consistently by the Government of Israel, including by the Prime Minister, that such statements do not reflect the policy of the Israeli government. They should stop immediately," State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said in a statement.

Miller noted in the statement that the department has been "clear, consistent, and unequivocal that Gaza is Palestinian land and will remain Palestinian land, with Hamas no longer in control of its future and with no terror groups able to threaten Israel. That is the future we seek, in the interests of Israelis and Palestinians, the surrounding region, and the world," he said.

The State Department’s comments come after Israeli cabinet ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition made remarks advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza.

On Sunday, Smotrich, called for Palestinian residents to leave the Gaza strip, making way for Israelis who could "make the desert bloom," according to Reuters.

Ben Gvir expressed support for resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip abroad, declaring that the war presents an “opportunity to concentrate on encouraging the migration of the residents of Gaza” during a political meeting.

Ben-Gvir says Israel is not ‘another star on the American flag’

Blast in Beirut risks triggering a wider war

A blown-out building in the Lebanese capital flashed on local TV channels as plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky. Hamas said this was the aftermath of an Israeli drone strike that killed one of its most senior officials, Saleh Al-Arouri, and several other members.

The Israeli military has not yet responded to CNN’s request for comment on the reports. If true, Arouri would be the most senior Hamas official killed by Israeli forces since the start of the war sparked by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

In addition to dealing a blow to Hamas’ leadership, the apparent attack also risks further broadening the arena of the Israel-Hamas conflict. It would mark the biggest Israeli strike on the Lebanese capital since the 2006 war between the two countries.

The apparent strike hit a popular neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs, which are also a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah. It reportedly struck a Hamas office, killing Arouri — one of the founders of the group’s military wing — during a meeting.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called it a “new Israeli crime that aims to drag Lebanon into a new phrase in confrontations,” referring to the ongoing, months-long tit-for-tat conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in the Lebanon-Israel border region.

Israel not claiming responsibility

Israel has "not taken responsibility" for the attack that killed a senior Hamas figure in Lebanon, a top official said Tuesday. During an interview with MSNBC, Mark Regev, who is a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said "Israel has not taken responsibility for this attack. But whoever did it must be clear that this was not an attack on the Lebanese state. It was not an attack even on Hezbollah," Regev said.

Meanwhile, a former ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, praised Israeli security agencies for the “assassination” of Arouri and Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari skirted a question from a reporter on the death of the senior Hamas leader.

Israeli officials celebrate attack on al-Arouri

Israeli finance minister claims all of Israel’s enemies will "perish"

US congressman hails killing of al-Arouri

Protest in Ramallah against the killing of Saleh al-Arouri

Al-Arouri’s killing is ‘an act of terrorism’: Haniyeh

Lebanon to submit complaint against Israel to the UN

‘Israel wants this escalation’

Another distraction from the ongoing genocide, meanwhile in Gaza

‘Stop bombing Gaza,’ US senator says

WHO chief condemns Israeli attack on Khan Younis hospital

‘Everyone in Gaza is hungry’: UN agencies

More than a million people are now seeking safety in the already overcrowded southern city of Rafah, according to UNRWA, with hundreds of thousands sleeping in the open with inadequate clothing or materials to keep out the cold.

Palestinian Health Ministry: Respiratory and skin diseases continue to spread in Gaza amid humanitarian crisis

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in West Bank has provided its latest update on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Its information is draw from data supplied by hospitals and other sources in the Hamas-controlled territory. The ministry cautions that obtaining accurate data is difficult given how many people are now living in the streets. The latest update says: