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naraburns  nihil supernum  7mo ago (text post)   29970 thread views

Israel-Gaza Megathread #2

This is a refreshed megathread for any posts on the conflict between (so far, and so far as I know) Hamas and the Israeli government, as well as related geopolitics. Culture War thread rules apply.

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Israel is simply one of the more stable and reliable partners in the Middle East, and it’s worth putting up with some lip to keep them that way. Of course, it helps that our enemies are by and large also their enemies.

There’s also the democracy angle- Israel is the only functioning democracy in the region and lots of the deep state genuinely mean what they say about supporting democracy around the world.

Their enemies are your enemies primarily because you back them. It's circular reasonig, basically.

Iran is our enemy primarily because they choose to be, not because we oppose them for opposing Israel. Syria is our enemy primarily for siding with Russia, and a lot of the armed groups Israel is busily repressing are our enemy because their friends blew up some buildings 20 odd years ago.

Russia was your enemy for no good reason at all back when Siryan civil war mess started.

American support for Israel was one of key reasons for 9/11 as cited by the organisers.

Russia was your enemy for no good reason at all back when Siryan civil war mess started.

Granted that this is true, the stupid reasons we had for opposing Russia at the time had nothing to do with Israel.

And 9/11 was partly revenge for American troops on Saudi soil, as much as for Israel.

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