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I hope that the international community refuses to acknowledge the seized land or borders having changed.
If it's not ok for Putin to do, it shouldn't be ok for Bibi.
The difference is, Israel has the US and EU’s backing. Might makes right.
Not the EU.
At most Germany (whose elites still seem to believe some races are superior and thus entitled to expand their lebensraum by taking from lesser races) plus a lot of neutral(ish) countries who are subservient to US interests, but Spain and the Republic Of Ireland have been demanding sanctions against Israel since it quickly became clear that they were mass murdering civilians in Gaza.
In practice the EU as a community is divided in this hence you don't see the EU acting on this and all that you see is some countries of the EU being Genocide-enablers, others being anti-Genocide and most just being silent about the whole thing.
They don't, haven't since 1967. But that doesn't faze Israel because there are no real consequences.
I dont understand why Israel, deeply reliant on US military assistance for its defense, also routinely humiliates the US in public.
They do it because they can.
Netanyahu in particular is famous for asserting that policy control flows from him to the US, not the other was around.
He believes that Israel controls the US, and he controls Israel. And for decades, that insane belief has been shown largely accurate.
The only humiliating thing is that the US still gives Israel money.
It's the same reason why fascist cretins like Trump and Putin humiliate their own supporters. As a display of power.
We need to cut off Israel from all aid. Obviously primarily because of the genocide, but secondarily because the main things they provide to the USA are domestic political interference, and damage to our international reputation.
Israel is in the comfortable position of having a sugar daddy who has a submission-humiliation fetish. And don't get me started on why the US loves Saudi Arabia so much
Ambassador Robert Ford (retired) spent his entire diplomatic career in the Middle East and North Africa since 1985, including being appointed as Ambassador to Syria by Obama, and by Bush Jr as Ambassador to Algeria.
AIPAC. We honestly need to ban foreign money in our elections at an absolute minimum, because the Netanyahu-Republican enablement allows an external power to force the hand of a President/diplomatic service. In this case it is tying us to a madman, whilst the US is trying to hold together Bretton Woods and the Pax Americana.
The ‘calculated support’ of Israel seen as necessary has isolated the US internationally and made us look like hypocrites - while the global south is watching.
Adding to what the other guy said, I'm theorizing but it could be because they want Netanyahu to fail. Israel wants Republicans in office so they can stop pretending to pretend to follow international law.
I don’t see how Israel can do this and expect not to be attacked by Palestinians. Palestinians are justified in retaliating.
They expect them to retaliate. They have been doing this settler-colonial genocide and then playing the victim bit for 80 years and we've been supporting them every step of the way.
Molasses holocaust, long game. Not genocide, if it's comparatively slow to the genocide that happened to us!
Molasses holocaust
This way of putting it is actually genius.
US keeps getting cucked and going back for more.
Nazis will nazi.
Remember kids punching zionists is not a right, it's a duty.