• Drusas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I support protesting, but I really don’t understand how these people in other countries expect that their protest is going to sway the Israeli government or Hamas. The war would go on even if we didn’t aid Israel.

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      1 year ago

      The US is still, to some extent, a democracy. The US also has major influence over what israel does. Protests show that a non-trivial fraction of the population does not support our current stance. It may not change anything yet, but it’s a necessary step.

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      1 year ago

      Not true.

      Israel is totally dependent on American and European support, but especially American support.

      They are basically the last western apartheid style colony, after the West pulled the plug out of South-Africa and Rhodesia, those regimes imploded.

      Which is why I don’t think Israel is viable as a state in its current form.

      European support is rapidly evaporating and concentrated among older voters. We will probably switch to boycotting them within 20 years.

      American support will probably last longer, but is also concentrated among older generations.

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        after the West pulled the plug out of South-Africa and Rhodesia, those regimes imploded.

        This. I don’t think most people realize/remember just how supportive governments in countries like the US and UK were towards Apartheid South Africa before the people made it clear we don’t want to support that stuff.

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        1 year ago

        How much monetary support does Israel receive compared to how much does it earn from exports? I’m looking up their industries and Israel is into diamond cutting, which carries its own ethical issues

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        1 year ago

        You are delusional if you think all of this hasn’t increased Israeli support. Hell being anti-Isreal just makes you look pro-terrorist at this point. Isreal isn’t going anywhere, they would wipe Palestine off the map before they would even contemplate leaving.

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          Being anti-israel is being anti-imperialist, anti-apartheid, and anti-capitalist

          The fuck you lying about? Lol the people side with the people suffering, the Palestinians.

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        1 year ago

        Luckily they are getting tons of support to prevent their own genocide