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Killing 70.000 as revenge for 1200 is not particularly blurry. Neither is ensuring that Palestinians live in perpetual misery.
by xg15 6mo ago
Killing 70.000 as revenge for 1200 is not particularly blurry. Neither is ensuring that Palestinians live in perpetual misery.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago[flagged]
- xg15 6mo agoThen maybe we shouldn't go out of our way to support one of those sides and provide the overwhelming firepower.
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago[flagged]
- xg15 6mo agoGood to read that you see it this way. > There is bipartisan agreement on the first point. I don't see how this can be true. The last initiatives to stop weapon sales all died in the House (although with shrinking majorities). Meanwhile weapon sales, military and intelligence cooperation and diplomatic protection continue with no change. By now a majority among the US population has changed their mind on Israel - but the actual decisionmakers haven't and I don't see that they will in the future either. > And we should pass into law a process, subject to judicial oversight, that bars even weapons sales to countries systematically engaging in war crimes. This law already exists in form of the Leahy Law. Both Biden and Trump refused to apply the law to Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law#The_Leahy_Law_and_Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law#The_Leahy_Law_and_Is...
- JumpCrisscross 6mo ago[flagged]
- paulatreides 6mo ago[flagged]