Great, then we should stop funding their government and military spending. If they won’t stop, we can. Of course we won’t, but we could and should.
Yeah seriously what the fuck is going on. Where’s the line, is there even a line?
There is none.
Not since Kissinger
I cannot find a single person on earth that can give a valid reason for sending them any money or armament whatsoever. We gain absolutely nothing from supporting them. Nothing at all.
Conservatives cry crocodile tears about “wasting money”. Every penny ever sent to Israel has been wasted. It’s not an investment. There is no return. There is no political or financial gain of any kind for us.
US gains an ally in a very important region of the world. They have huge strategic value. Saying there is nothing is misguided.
We have an ally next door, Jordan.
We’d probably have more allies if we dropped support.
What we are doing is equivalent to us deciding to support North Korea and being shocked that all of a sudden we lose regional support from just about everyone.
Israel, especially with an ongoing genocide, is toxic to stability and alliances. It isolates more than it gives strategic advantage.
Everyone keeps ignoring Jordan but it literally has the best cultural and economic relations with the US. Were they not even together in the anti ISIS coalition?
But nope, Israeli lobbying is stronger than all of our voices combined.
Like they really need an ally there to bomb middle east to rubble.
Looks like allying with Israel has only been detrimental to the US. It’s been great for Zionists who need the US’ protection, though.
Osama bin Laden cited US’ support for Israel as one of the reasons for the 9/11 attacks.
Think about the billions, or perhaps trillions, of dollars the US has lost out on because of its support of Israel.
We need to drop them like a bad habit.
Okay, what’s your point? I’m stating a fact. They have high strategic value. I don’t need to be convinced that it’s expensive or risky
Re-read my comment until it makes sense.
I was very clear about my point from the very beginning.
I re read it. I still don’t see why you decided to respond to me stating a fact with a rant. I don’t really care about your opinion and I’m not here to debate whether the US should still support Israel.
Drop that reddit shit and just explain when someone asks.
Lol, what?
You say they have value as an ally. What benefit has the alliance had for the US? Did Israel contribute soldiers to Iraq or Afghanistan? Did Israel support the Obama administration’s JCPOA or did they try to undermine it and kill it?
It’s a one-way alliance.
Had.
They had huge strategic value.
What do you mean, they are still there, the US can still use their shit if they need to.
Tactical value is fleeting. Israel is the reason we can’t afford anything for domestic civilians since 2001.
Maybe fuck off and mind your own business hey?
Why do we need to be involved in the region at all? We’ve only done more harm than good.
Why are you asking me this?
Because you said they provide huge strategic value. What value is that? Why do we even need to have bases in that area to begin with?
Because it’s part of the US power projection. Asking that is like asking “why does the US need to do anything outside their borders”.
Fair!
It’s not misguided it’s reactionary nonsense. It’s people who literally have no idea what they are talking about and it’s obvious to anyone that does.
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Keep protesting. It’s giving the political capital needed for US politicians to say “hey, maybe we should change our relationship with Israel, here”. I know that doesn’t sound like much, but in terms of world politics, it’s a huge change already for them to be able to say that.
Yes, there is. A lot of the higher-ups in government believe that Israel is necessary for the Rapture to take place. All the Jews will go there, and then get killed, and all the rich white men here will go to heaven.
I wish I was even joking, but I’m not. They’ll keep Israel going at all costs because of this.
Seven Mountain followers want this fight to end horribly. They’re actually attempting to hasten it.
I saw a comment the other day that she’d a lot of light on this. Us Military aid to Israel suppresses Israeli arms manufacturing, because they have less need, and boosts their reliance on US arms. It essentially promotes US arms sales not just in Israel, but across the world, as Israel has a fairly strong military industrial complex as is.
Is this a good reason? That’s debatable. It’s a better reason than none though, and it makes things a lot clearer.
In theory, you could make an argument about defending the people living in a hostile region. In practice the government of Israel has been on a hard right slide for decades and have been openly denying basic human rights to the people stranded in Gaza.
In theory, you could make an argument about defending the people living in a hostile region.
There are vulnerable groups in the middle east. Why lavish only this one with billions of dollars of munitions? We do not have any valid reason to support them any more than any other vulnerable group.
The history of post WW2 era is the forcing function. For better or worse.
Strategic Military advantage and I assume access to massad or some collaboration with them and if we stopped every Muslim country would eradicate Isreal at which point the same people yelling genocide Joe would be screaming for us to help Isreal. It’s global politics and its not black and white. Oh and global weapons sales, after all the united states government is more or less just a weapons dealer
Sure you can you’re sticking your head in the sand.
It’s to maintain Israel’s defensive posture as to Iran.
Our weapons and money is not necessary for Israel to carpet bomb all of Gaza and the West Bank several times over before suspending aid altered Israel’s posture as to Gaza.
So right now cotinued support is America’s only leverage. See? Not complicated at all.
Sounds like Bibi is trying to implement some sort of “final solution” with regards to the Palestinians.
It is truly flabbergasting to watch the Israeli government categorically ignore the incredibly obvious and terrible irony here.
Ironically Israel was never really against holocaust, they just want to make sure that it’s Arabs instead of Jews.
It just proves to me that people are people.
How can we get to the root of our problems if we continue to group people from different regions as separate and distinct?
We’re all the same species. We’re humans dehumanizing humans to make killing humans easier under the leadership of a tiny fraction of our species fighting to go down in history. Same as it ever was.
Even when we do our absolute best to be good to each other, we still break ourselves into groups. “You can’t wear braids, that’s cultural appropriation!” The person who says that means well, but ultimately we have to stop treating each other as, well, other.
The only thing that makes us any different is actually something that we should strive to see as similarity. That is which individuals from which time influenced what area and how that don’t really matter and was just luck (or bad luck) of the draw.
So what if 3,000 years ago some dude thought it was cool to paint stripes on his face and wear a big hat which lead to millions painting stripes on their faces while wearing big hats over there in a distant land.
It’s the same damn thing as some dude over here thinking that a white wig and a big frilly shirt was rad and millions following in his footsteps.
It really is simple. Our cultures are built from people who came and went before us and folks following them and spreading the rad (or ugly) shit they did.
Our culture has to reach a point where it is considered a collective and shared human culture.
Who fucked who, where, and how much influence they left on their descendants and how much we give a shit about the where isn’t helping us. If an alien abducted 10 humans from different regions they wouldn’t even give a thought to how our history separates us. They’d just have 10 of a species from the planet earth.
I hope we get it together one day. It breaks my heart that those people are suffering so terribly right now. The malnourished kids in those photos remind me of the ones from the holocaust.
It would be nice if the people in power could relate their suffering to that of their grandparents. It really would.
Sorry I’m all over the place.
I disagree. You’re pretty on target with that.
The diversity we have as a species is -and always has been- our greatest strength. It means a subset of us can usually do at least “ok” under any given situation.
The same thing is what made some poxy little island able to rule a vast swathe of the planet. The UK took the best of everything it encountered, and added it to it’s own, like the Borg. Of course, like everywhere else that’s run by plutocrats, in an effort to keep us all divided anything “foreign” is currently bad, and to be shunned.
The UK took the best of everything it encountered, and added it to it’s own, like the Borg.
The Empire was built from the Agricultural and Industrial Revolution, and the +15 year head start the British got over the rest of the world. The coupling of massive domestic economic growth with an international system of spoils and conquest lead to the Age of Sail and the gilded era for Britain, not an adherence to objective, rational facts and ideas.
The advantage of developing earlier lead to much of the leading research, science and practices coming from Britain, but they certainly had enough hubris to ignore better ideas that weren’t their own
Easiest suction is to make first contact and turn an entire alien species into the ‘other’ we always need to have and hate. Humanity will learn to cooperate by force then
Same as it ever was.
Only since around 600BC when coin turned money from a quantitive measurement of debt into a protection racket against soldiers, mercenaries and thugs (military colonialism wouldn’t be possible without this redefinition of money). Yeah, there were always societies with ruthless hierarchies, but they weren’t the norm. Yeah, there was always inequality in wealth or physical ability, but wealth wasn’t always used to lord over and deprive from eachother. The norm for most of humanities 200,000+ years were societies of cooperation, a colourful carnival of experimental politics of the likes we couldn’t even dream of nowadays. Ruthless and brutal hierarchies famously collapse because communities actively decided to abandon them, move elsewhere, and create something new and better. Human history is marked by stories of societies who reject arbitrary authorities, the ability to go elsewhere, and most of all have the expectation that wherever they go they’ll be cared for. None of these freedoms exist anymore, so the question is how and why did we lose these freedoms? And who benefits from these losses of freedoms? After accepting that society is what we make of it, defined by rules on how to live amongst one another in a bottom->up direction, then why are we so eager to blindly accept arbitrary authority, stay put, and fear our neighbors?
Israel has decided to implement a “final solution” to the “Palestinian question”.
Jewish Hitler.
actually…Israeli Hitler would be more appropriate. Not all Jews support Ben (and Israel in that matter) … But most Israelis do seem to support Ben, otherwise they could’ve just just gathered around the gov building and demanded his step-down.
No, he’s pretty unpopular there, most polls say that Benny Gantz would beat him easily in an election. That doesn’t mean that they object to his approach to Gaza, or that Gantz would be any better for the Palestinian people.
Sounds like he never lost his way and genocide was always the goal.
And what, pray tell, is “total victory”?
You know… Total as in “Final” and victory as in “Solution”. It’s more polite than saying genocide.
It’s when you win the total war.
Edit /s, as in reference to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportpalast_speech
Gaza’s army, navy and air force have all been defeated. I guess the rest is winning over the locals’ hearts and minds now, right?
I don’t think my sarcasm shone through to you. The term was used by Goebbels in a 1943 speech inspiring the German people for war until extermination.
And after all Palestinians in Gaza are murdered, Netanyahu will bring up that Hamas is also in the West Bank and Lebanon.
And after that, maybe Jordan. Then perhaps Syria. Fascists can’t stay in power without whipping up xenophobia.
He knows he has to. Otherwise people would not support him.
All Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, too? At this rate it will take Israel another 67 years! And then also Lebanon? Lebanon has a million more people than Gaza and the West Bank combined. Won’t check the math on this one but that’ll make it like what, another 90 years.
I’m sure AIPAC has told Netanyahu they won’t let US politicians stop the flow of money and arms to Israel (AIPAC is spending 100 million to keep progressives out of office). The criticism is just theater. Biden only started changing his language when people started voting “uncommitted” in battleground states, and he is still shipping arms to Israel every 36 hours. The Israeli blockade of humanitarian aid is barely mentioned officially, the air-dropped aid is woefully inadequate and little more than virtue signalling. 3 months ago, when Gazan civilian casualties were at 21,000+, Congress passed a bill making criticizing Zionism/Israel legally equal to antisemitism. All this shows that Netanyahu just needs to keep accepting aid and let Biden talk for political reasons until he’s re-elected.
Am I the only one who has been hearing the frustrations coming from democrats and Biden about Netanyahu? Reading these comments you’d think Biden has been best buddy’s with Netanyahu and all is squeaky clean in their relationship, which is very, VERY much not the case. You’d also think that democratic leadership didn’t just call out Netanyahu and suggest Israeli’s vote him out over Gaza.
It’s so weird that Biden is simultaneously Genocide Joe and Pro Hamas Biden.
I know talk is cheap and we are still sending military aid to Israel, but it all comes down to Biden facing daily trolley problems and balancing keeping friendly relationships with our one (nuclear capable) middle eastern country, taking the US seriously as a country that can stop a genocide by saying no to this (nuclear capable) middle eastern country, a reelection, and sending a message to the United States allies and adversaries of if we will or will not support who we say we will support.
The answer to stop sending arms to Israel is clear to us, but let’s not pretend it’s that easy. The rules for rulers are not that straightforward.
I don’t give Biden credit for resisting Netanyahu. During the Trump years we heard endlessly about Republicans who privately criticized Trump but publicly defended him slavishly. They get no credit, so why should Biden?
Biden’s policy was to publicly hug Netanyahu and hope that doing so would make him easy to pressure behind closed doors. It failed repeatedly. Biden is unwilling to pressure Netanyahu publicly and is instead taking the heat for him, with nothing in return. It’s pathetic and bringing down his campaign.
I was here when Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and then democrats used that as justification for why we should vote for Biden
Talk is not cheap, it is very much free of cost and carries no weight in the modern age of internet where evidence and first hand accounts are so abundant for the public to see.
The only critical reason Biden has an issue with Netanyahu is because:
- He’s damaging Biden’s election campaign
- He’s not directly controllable or influenced like how the leaders of the surrounding shill arab countries are (ex: Sisi), which is just an extension of the first reason
As long as Israel has money to pay for weapons and the US has an interest in Israel (military complex and lots of technology), very little will change even with strained relations.
The best chance of anything changing is if the conflict became wider and suddenly started costing the USA resources, which is what the Houthis were trying to achieve by sabotaging the red sea shipping lanes.
The second half of your comment shows you know the answer to the first half. Yes, it is that easy.
We almost have our four horsemen of the apocalypse:
Putin = war Trump = petulance (disease via COVID) Netanyahu = famine (at least it Gaza)
It’s pestilence, but I think petulance actually suits Trump better
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The US needs to stop funding terrorists.
The US needs to stop funding genocide.
Use the word. It’s important. It’s what it is. This is a modern holocaust happening before our eyes, and we are complicit in it.
How the fuck are ‘we’ complicit in it when our government only follows the average citizen’s will in 10% of their policies?
You’re just like the megacorps chiding us for not recycling our water bottle caps.
The American public isn’t trying to recall or remove politicians who support unrestricted arms sales to Israel. Both Biden and Trump are for unrestricted sales, it seems.
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If Biden wants to ignore the will of voters then he can win his own election without us.
I want Trump to lose too, but Biden has been really insulting to the pro-Palestine voters, which is unlike any presidents before him. He couldn’t even bring himself to acknowledge or pretend to grieve for dead Palestinians although he publicly hugs families of Israeli victims.
I want Trump to lose too
I kind of don’t believe you…
That cuts both ways. We don’t believe Biden along with his moderate and liberal voters are taking the threat of Trump seriously when they refuse to compromise with leftists and progressives they’re depending on for votes. If you believe Trump is half as dangerous as you say he is then cutting off weapon shipments is a bargain. Refusing to block strikes is a bargain. Pick a lane.
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Comparison to holocaust is a complete exaggeration.
Why?
Because the scale is not comparable. Here, we are fighting in a single city, not across whole Europe, we are not building concentration camps where we are tying together siblings and changing people’s eye colour. Also, the scale is not comparable and the escalation was started by Hamas.
So one is on a larger scale. Ok then it’s perfectly comparable.
Of course, by this logic we can start comparing a murder of 2 people to holocaust because both are murdering people.
Well that justifies your actions completely! Carry on then.
I have not said that. If I murder 2 people, my actions won’t be justified but the comparison to holocaust is completely absurd.
What’s absurd is holding the holocaust to such a standard that we cannot compare it to anything or learn anything from history.
It’s disrespectful to holocaust survivors, this shit I see posted here, especially to the ones saying never again now.
Don’t use the holocaust to make this genocide okay. That’s antisemitic.
So you’re just being pedantic
Hey stop being rational, instant emotional reactions only!
Ah yes, I guess this means a “small holocaust” is perfectly fine…
I thought the survivors said NEVER AGAIN. The scale is irrelevant. Israel created one of the biggest manmade famine in histroy at an unprecedented speed. Why destroy all roads and hospitals and stop aid? I’ll let you answer that one.
If the scale is irrelevant, then it’s completely irrelevant that Israel killed roughly 30k people because that’s just the scale.
Famine is, unfortunately, not so rare during wars, hence why especially poor regions that have troubles even without a war should not be aggressive.
I think that’s BS. Famine at this scale and speed is not common.
Out of curiosity, what is the actual limit for an acceptable quantity of genocide? Like, I’m trying to understand if there’s a hard number of murdered civilians that Isreal has to reach before we can make comparisons to the holocaust, or if it’s more just a vibes thing?
Israel is killing in Gaza at the speed of a large concentration camp at the peak of the Holocaust.
Compare size and population of Gaza and a concentration camp.
If you have enough square miles you deprive of food it’s not Genocide?
The definition of Genocide becomes the most arbitrary set of rules ever according to pro-israelis.
I agree that the word is appropriate, but it’s also problematic because it has legal definitions that are almost never met. Someone will inevitably argue with the use of the term, and the conversation will be completely derailed by a vocabulary debate
I just say genocidal actions.
Hard to disagree there
They can argue all they want. I really don’t care.
The legal definitions of genocide are only difficult to meet because they were written by countries with their own histories of genocide. That’s why it’s so hard to prove.
That’s not a standard we need to hold ourselves to.
Ignore them. You can’t patent the term genocide
Yes mein führer! heels click
It should be known as “The Israeli Self-Defense Genocide” in the history books.
The needs of the many outweigh the Netanyahu.
The needs of Israel outweigh the Netanyahu.
Him trying to doggedly ‘crush’ Hamas (an impossible goal politically) whilst refusing to see the larger picture is an outstanding dereliction of duty to the country as a whole
The northern border is increasingly heating up with Hezbollah targeting IDF bases directly and with larger ordnance - in a few months it has progressed from lowly ATGMs and 80s tech, to Grad and Burkan rocket artillery. There’s now more frequent attacks on northern towns and settlements because of their increasing firepower brought in
International condemnation is widespread, your neighbors to the east and south are publicly taking about ‘changes in security treaties’ with Israel and threatening unilateral action, an ICJ judgment that is sustained into war crimes investigations, and top US official and leaders are talking about ‘red lines’ and implicitly threatening continuing US military aid - that’s a big problem.
Even if you accept the ‘4D chess’ angle that Bibi is dealing with
IranHamas completely to remove that threat before taking care ofIranHezbollah, that ignores the global reality that the world, not just the Arab/Islamic world, isn’t going to sit by and let you ignore ~2 million Palestinians, today or tomorrow.Israel is totally capable of winning the battle against Hamas, no doubt. But by doing so they will loose the wider war, isolate themselves politically, and make their own survival harder without friendly nations in a rough neighborhood.
Good point, the scale of this military operation is useless considering the goal. Even if hamas is completely removed, another radical group would probably emerge somewhere nearby.
Netanyahu only sharpened the resolve of the Palestinian public. He banned peaceful protest, he punished Palestinians for boycotts or asking the UN for help. He sidelined moderates and undermined the PA. When you get rid of moderates and nonviolent protest, you can’t be surprised when people turn to violence.
May I ask what non-violent protest are you talking about?
The 2018-2019 nonviolent protests in Gaza that the Israeli military fired on and killed 226.
Are you referring to the March of return when they literally illegally crossed borders of Israel?
Israel creates racist apartheid laws and illegally starved Gazans in a blockade and you’re mad that people nonviolently broke some of those laws in an attempt to demand their human rights?
Human rights violations and unjust imprisonment of an entire population are not something anyone should be expected to just “obey.” Next you’ll be telling me Jews were breaking laws when they tried to escape the Warsaw ghetto.
Do I see a little moustache growing on Benny’s lip? Total Victory kinda sounds similar to “Final Solution”
He has had a sweaty combover and quadratic moustache implied since whenever the fucker was unfortunately born into this world.
He kinda has a similar face. I think this is a case of electric boogaloo.
I thought that was Putin.
Or Bolsonaro.
Or Modi.
Or Winnie the Pooh.
We’ve landed in a world wide rerun of “Fascists Got Talent”
Those three have different faces
“total victory” sure sounds like they’ve given some thought to their objectives and it’s no accident they’re killing lots of civilians
“final solution” vibes
I wonder how synonymous “total victory” would be with “final solution” if this guy was German in the 1940s
I wonder if Israel calls their apartheid blocks “ghettos”…
It surely reminds me of the Sportpalast Speech also known as the Total War Speech of Joseph Goebbles.
Do you believe with the Führer and us in the final total victory of the German people? Are you and the German people willing to work, if the Führer orders, 10, 12 and if necessary 14 hours a day and to give everything for victory? Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
“total victory” is no Palestinians and all the land.
Fucking religion and real estate all mixed together and killing innocent people…
Almost everything I hate about the world all in one disgusting package.
There are so many justifications for fascism within religions (Maybe most especially, but not exclusively, Abrahamic)
Sounds even better in German!
total victory sounds like “wollt ihr den totalen krieg”
