No, your where replying to
@Navarro, and the both of you were talking about the arguments being made by
@King Arts and myself. So your were talking about our perspective. Stop playing innocent and dumb, no one is falling for it.
Bring it on.
And given what monsters Hamas seem to be, they certainly deserve it.
And explain to me why that makes this okay. Seriously, explain this to me.
Why should us Westerners be held to blame for stuff our ancestors did that we have no control over?
Or is wanting to stay out of a war between Israel and its neighbors ‘anti-semitism’ now?
Don’t know. Probably in all those nations not in the Middle East that don’t explicitly hate their guts.
Why is Israel and it’s safety the West’s responsibility? As far as I know, the West hasn’t signed a binding and unbreakable treaty that pledges us to defend Israel.
If anything, given how previous Western interference has made things more difficult for Israel, it’s all the more reason we should stay out of it.
I’m not so sure.
To play Devil’s advocate here: what does Israel lose from this?
For a comparative handful of lives, many from foreign nations, Israel gets massive advantages. Any sympathy towards Palestine from within their nation is gone. Same goes for most other nations towards Palestine.
In exchange for a bloody nose and temporary embarrassment, Israel get a 9/11 -type rallying point for their people and sympathetic Western powers and peoples. Those same foreign politicians will send Israel money, weapons, aid and maybe even troops to fight in the war for Israel.
Israel also gets to finally and possibly definitely deal with issues that have been plaguing them for decades. Issues that many Western governments held them back on out of a desire, misplaced it might have been, to have peace and co existence between Israel and Palestine.
Now Israel gets let off ‘the leash’ so to speak. As Hamas has given them plenty of justification*. And anyone -in or out of Israel- who questions any of this gets made to look bad.
Even if Israel or various people haven’t lied about anything, this conflict stands ready to give Israel pretty much everything they ‘want’ in regards to Gaza and the like. At least that’s my understanding for this hypothetical.
As I said this is a hypothetical look at the situation Israel is in and at current events. Israel is a small nation surrounded by those who hate its existence.
*assuming that things like the water pipes mentioned above are true. There is a reason why it is said truth is the first casualty in war. And it’s not as if Israel hasn’t (
allegedly) lied about stuff in the past. (See below-note that the video came out 5 months ago).