Why is the US still sending an endless supply of arms to Israel without conditions?
Why is the US still sending an endless supply of arms to Israel without conditions?
The law requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel
The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel
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The US is an Israeli puppet state.
You can credibldy argue that Israel has an outsized influence of US foreign policy, but to call the US an "Israeli puppet state" is such a hyperbolic exaggeration that it sounds less like a valid criticism and more like the old "Jews control the world" antisemitic hate speech.
The US has far more influence on Israel than vice versa
Its hard to tell sometimes whether somebody is using phrasing like that naively or as a dog whistle (which is why its an effective dog whistle). The reality is Israel plays a critical role in maintaining US empire and public image and Netanyahu is cashing in those in for a racist child-killing spree.
Agreed. The USA is simply too powerful to ever become anyone's lapdog, they're a force unto themselves
Lmao IDF on damage control
Dumbass
True fact.
what an unfortunate truth
for america to do anything less would be intifada holocaust 2 electric boogaloo anti semitic. and if you blame one individual who practices judaism You are attacking every single jew down to the last just recently conceived children getting pumped hard into an achey clown car vagina. how many kids do hesidic jews have? a literal circus.
but Palestine?! they are so so so bad we gotta zion up or ship out only real patriots allowed in Israeli tank vs palestinian rock fight.
fucking oppressed palestinian people, how dare they resist genocide, right? AND TO TOP IT OFF THEY EXPRESS THE DIRENESS OF THEIR SITUATION BY ATTACKING THEIR PRISON GATE KEEPERS Against Jews!?! NOT ONE JEW, THORIN NOT ONE JEW COIN LOST. A SINGLE JEW TOKEN IS WORTH MORE THAN THE ENTIRE POPULACE OF PALESTINE.
...i need to turn off the news
Let's not commit to hyperbole. Netty is just a manipulative ass who needs Israel distracted with another war
I must have missed the memo where raping women to death, slicing off their tits, and mutilating their vaginas is classified as "resisting oppression".
Hamas is bad. Very bad.
Edit: I should have included the sauce.
must have missed the memo where raping women to death, slicing off their tits, and mutilating their vaginas is classified as "resisting oppression".
I missed the proof this happened
I did too, but what we do have proof of, in the form of hours and hours of grisly trauma-inducing footage, is quite bad enough. While we can rightly condemn its overuse, there is no universe in which the Israelis can be blamed for reacting with force.
Video testimony of an eyewitness
Police have privately shown journalists a single horrific testimony
this isn't proof
Fog of war. All information about the war is provisional at this point. The full truth will come out eventually. In the meantime, I can at least believe that the BBC saw what they say they saw. If the footage itself was faked, we will find out at some point.
BBC saw what they say they saw
the bbc saw someone claiming to see something. it's hearsay.
Yes, that's true, did you read my comment?
Also, I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of news is hearsay. Only relatively few things are ever subjected to the level of scrutiny required by western courts of law.
so why spread lies?
Here you go. But be warned, it is hard to read.
both extremist sides are bad. it will resolve itself naturally. israel takes gaza, Egypt and/or saudi takes israel and so on and so forth. todays winners are tomorrow's losers.
Yes, I agree with you. It's a tale as old as time.
Song as old as rhyme
Beeyu-tee aaaand...the Beeeast
fucking oppressed palestinian people, how dare they resist genocide, right?
There is no genocide of Palestinians. Less than 1% of Palestinians have been killed in this conflict
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a. Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
b. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
c. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
d. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
I’m not totally convinced that this is Israel’s intent—most of what I’ve seen points to a brazen and sociopathic indifference typical of 7th graders and goofy “strongman” populists like Netanyahu alike—but the percentage of the population killed does not factor in determining whether it is genocide.
They've killed 0.6% of the population, counting enemy militants.
Gaza is 5x the density of Mosul, in which the US (who quite obviously was not committing genocide) killed ~10,000 civilians.
Things can be shitty and not be genocide.
Again, I really don’t to weigh in on whether or not it is genocide, if only because I’m not gonna change anybody’s opinion here. Alls I’m saying is that the qualifications for genocide do not include the destruction of the entire, or even the majority of, the population.
Any sane look at the situation makes it obvious it is not genocide
And I’m still not trying to argue with you on that. I’m just saying that the numbers you’re citing do not support your case. There are most definitely situations where killing 0.6% of a population would be considered genocide.
Maybe, if they fit any of the other criteria, which Israel obviously does not
Please point to where I said anything explicitly disagreeing with that.
Raz Segal is an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University and the endowed professor in the study of modern genocide.
TIL A Jewish professor of Holocaust and genocide studies is insane.