cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/41590
The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.
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And that’s basically it!
A whole nation of genocidal maniacs. Just as racist and murderous as the Nazis.
There are a handful of decent humans there who oppose it all. They have protested and been beaten up.
Mostly young people. Not very many of them. But I think that's pretty courageous considering they are literally surrounded by wolves.
What must it be like to live in a country surrounded by insane fascist. ?
Oh... Nevermind I guess I know.
Well.
But at least most of my fellow U.S citizens aren't in support of it.
I think Israel must feel like literally everyone is maga except like 2 people you know.
It's a good time to recommend the Discworld book Jingo, which remains just as relevant as when it was written.
And another quote from Feet of Clay:
(And then there's The Fifth Elephant that's so painfully spot-on that I'd rather not spoil a single moment of it. Terry Pratchett was amazing and I wish he was still around to share his humor and wisdom. We could use a few laughs right now.)
Seems like a lifetime since he died, I hope his books are still popular in a hundred years. Gnu pterry.
Only 60% oppose an unprovoked attack targeting schools and hospitals?!
And their reasons:
I am from the other side of the uniparty so I dogmatically am against anything the other side does.
The gas prices are going up!
We are sending our poor little innocent baby killers to die for israel!
No, your country isn't better.
Also at best a handful of decent people, the US should be nuked just as hard AFAIC.
It's a little better. I honestly feel that most of my community is not insane. That's something.
What country are you in bloomcole that your hands are clean?
Belgium, to humor your whataboutism
Shall we ask a couple of countries in Africa whether Belgium has clean hands?
Like I haven't heard that feeble argument from an americunt when he looked up Belgium to try some whataboutism.
Bravo you've found ONE straw to grasp at from a long time ago where the circumstances are in no way comparable.
We're talking about support of the people.
For one, what did people know back then about the private endeavour of a royal or about anything remotely distant from where they lived?
Yes that definitely is the same as the people of the US shithole supporting nearly all their violent imperialism and terrorism while they have every opportunity to know they're wrong.
Oh, and BTW, it's your cancer shithole that took over in Congo and about everywhere they could in Africa.
So you can fuck right off with your ridiculous gotcha attempt.
That was a long way to say yep we fucked around in Africa.
'we' didn't do anything.
you and all your miserable population are war criminals.
Glad you're eating shit and circling the drain, you fully deserve it
Belgians sure did, do we need drag out Belgian colonial history
no asshole, not humoring your whataboutism about totally irrelevant history when talking about US war crimes and their reprehensible barbarian population being complicit.
So fuck off, you've got nothing of relevance to offer.
You were super quick to pat yourself on the back then super annoyed when I pointed out Belgian history.
You can criticize America or any country, heck you can get big mad but there is no country that doesn’t have blood on its hands
I guess it's fine then
Even the Nazis weren't "a whole nation of genocidal maniacs." In both Israel and Nazi Germany there is/was opposition to the atrocities committed by their leadership, just not enough. In Israel in particular "do you support comically evil thing" polls tend to get 60-80% support, except the Iran war which at its outset had 93% support. That's not a whole nation of genocidal maniacs; that's a nation of mostly genocidal maniacs.
It's not all of them, but the lack of people speaking up over there is chilling. I hope it's just media suppression, and the numbers aren't as bad as it seems.
Sad how abuse begets abuse, innit?