• Wytchhazel08@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Wow, thank you for your reply. That all makes a lot of sense. I know Israel isn’t the most well liked nation in the middle east, so US support would definitely piss people off over there. All this conflict between the u.s and the middle east…feels like it will never end.

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      Israel isn’t the most well liked nation in the middle east

      That tends to happen when you colonize, apartheid, ethnic cleanse, and genocide people, yeah. Who’d have thunk!

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      They’re committing a mask-off genocide after 75 years of ethnic cleansing - all the while bombing and assassinating foreign citizens on foreign, sovereign soil.

      Tell me how any country on earth would like that.

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        Tell me how any country on earth would like that.

        How about you tell me. What have the Iraqi and Syrian governments actually said? The groups the US is bombing are proxies for another foreign power operating within their borders, so that does complicate it just a bit.

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      8 months ago

      All this conflict between the u.s and the middle east…feels like it will never end.

      To the war contractors who heavily drive this conflict, that’s kinda the point.

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      This description of US engagement with the crisis in Palestine is incredibly one sided. It’s either disingenuous or just curiously ignorant of US efforts to curtail the violence. Don’t get me wrong, the US has been putting it’s own interests first and Biden has said some pretty fucked up things, including reaffirming that he considers himself a Zionist. I’m just saying that you are not getting the full picture from that comment.

      The current genocide (and I do think that is the right word) is sadly very popular in Israel, and Netanyaho has wanted to do it for years. They wanted this, as did Hesbola when they instigated it. Realistically, none of the actions a lot of people are proposing would make a difference. The US could stop selling weapons and giving aid to Israel, and Israel would simply realign themselves to Russia or China. Short of sending troops in, the US isn’t stopping it.

      What the US has managed to do so far is contain the conflict, which has been the top priority. Israel would almost certainly be at war with Lebanon without US restraint, and that could easily bring Iran into the conflict.

      The title of this article is technically correct, but the wording frames the issue poorly and makes it sound like the US is attacking these countries. The Iraqi and Syrian governments don’t have control of all the military groups in their borders, and they absolutely recognize the difference between the US attacking these groups and attacking the country itself. Here is a better and less slanted article.

      https://apnews.com/article/attack-military-iran-iraq-houthis-229a735edbb7759ba9ade543013917df