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Video Shows Girl Trying to Escape Inferno as Gaza Family 'Burned Alive' in Israeli Massacre
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I honestly think that the primary reason more Western Governments refrained from speaking out against Israel isn’t tacit support, but rather fear.
Israel is a nuclear armed nation with a notoriously efficient spy network (Mossad), finances, and next to no scruples.
I legitimately wouldn’t put it past them hold blackmail material against a large number of world leaders, or at the very least have credible plans to stage a false-flag dirty bomb explosion anywhere they see fit.
It’s the only cope I have as to why so much of the world remains paralysed while the Palestinian people of Gaza are systematically eradicated.
Israel is of strategic importance to project US power in the middle east to secure oil.
That's also the reason they were allowed to continue with their nuclear program.
It's not fear, it's power politics. Western powers actively support them. They are not uniquely evil, they are just what happens when fascism is sponsored and allowed to run unchecked.
This is Joe Biden making it perfectly clear: https://youtu.be/A-Ky3dPEnOE
Again this. There are other lands that could have worked just as good for US interests on the area.
Well sure, psychos with nukes are scary and there may be an element of the US losing control of their attack dog, but the idea that the Israelis are calling the shots is not really accurate. It cuts dangerously close to the antisemitic conspiracy theory that Israel through AIPAC controls the US government, which also conveniently lets the US off the hook for sponsoring them.
I just think it's important to remember that for all their brutality, Israel is not charge, and they are not the military superpower that has dominated much of global politics for the past century. They are a vassal state and they would listen if anyone in power had the will to tell them no, they are far too dependent on US support.
Isn't Israel already threatened nuclear Armageddon when Nixon dragged his foot on sending aid during the Yom Kippur war? IIRC around a dozen warheads are being primed for launch when the US aid confirmation came.
That definitely may have been the case post-‘70s oil crisis, but it does feel as though the current Bibi administration has gone feral.
The US is not going to ever admit that it has lost control of the leash, as doing so would probably hurt them more than tacitly endorsing the genocide - but I still would argue that fear is one of the primary driving factors.
They know that their time is running out. Younger generations of Americans are not pro-Israel, so political support will be drying up in the coming decades. And then there's the even bigger issue of climate change, which is coming for all of us but is going to hit certain areas sooner than others.
It's probably more like institutional inertia. It takes a long time to stop a ship that big.
A better explanation is that no one at the top cares. Their plight had been ignored for decades