• millie@beehaw.org
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    7 months ago

    I wonder if it’ll get to a point where some of the world leaders still backing Israel financially and with munitions actually have to do something. Like, is there any amount of cruelty and atrocity at this point that they won’t fund? Does it literally have to get all the way to concentration camps? Overt industrialized systematic genocide? Where’s their line?

    • The line is where the people in their own countries force them to stop supporting Israel while atrocities continue. This is why speaking up, in your communities, on social media, by joining protests and by boycotting companies that support the IDF, is so important. People outside Israel can not make the IDF stop. But we can pressure our governments to deny any further support for Israel or better yet sanction key players, to pressure Israel into stopping.

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      7 months ago

      They financially backed Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen where over 377,000 Yemenites were killed, but barely anyone protested over that.
      Palestinians in Lebanon are being heavily discriminated against for over 70 years, and yet no one protested over that.

      On the other hand, countries funded and supported the Kurds’ fight against ISIS, and are still somewhat helping them against several countries and forces that have been trying to wipe them out for over 100 years. And this one’s without anyone protesting.

      So similarly to how people protest according to the influence of geopolitics, countries also act according to geopolitics.

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      7 months ago

      Where’s their line?

      Based on WW2:

      • Cruelty and atrocity: nice…
      • Concentration camps: nothing to see here, everyone has them
      • Systematic genocide: who hasn’t done some genociding at one point or another?
      • Overt industrialized systematic genocide: …only if they attack you first.

      Luckily we now have the Universal Declaration of Human Rights… which everyone is ignoring. Oh well, we tried.