• Frog@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Israel has a huge intelliegence network that the US help them build by giving them billions of dollars.

    The US relations with that area is already really poor. Pulling support of Israel will bring the US back decades of relationship building, billions of dollars invested, and losing the location. The location is important because Israel is in the center, near water, and isn’t an island.

    Morally, being allies with Israel is not good, logically it makes sense.

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      4 months ago

      Sounds a lot like sunken cost fallacy. We might be better off making other allies.

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        4 months ago

        The president role is 7 years. Knesset seat is 4 years. Would you give up decades of relationship building for one presidential term?

        Also how often would you switch allies if they commit genocide defined by the Genocide Convention?

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          Over an active genocide? I would immediately end a friendship with a country and as many times as it takes to not be responsible for enabling a genocide. Allies don’t let allies commit genocide, everyone knows that. Besides it takes more than a president to do a genocide.

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            How much time needs to pass before a genocide is no longer an “active genocide”?

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              I knew this would come up, which is why i specified this. Might as well as cut the head off the “every country has committed genocide at some point” argument. Not every country is actively committing genocide, Israel is. America is their chef supplier of power. America is actively Shielding them from the consequences of committing genocide.

              So we should stop backing a country that is actively committing genocide full stop. No money, no weapons, no blocking sanctions, no threatening countries and organizations trying to help the victims. This is the literal bare minimum, as we should be sanctioning them, we should be guaranteeing humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

              When is it not an active genocide? When the genocide stops.

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                Let’s say we stopped being allies with them and stopped funding. So if they stop tomorrow, then the US should have them as allies again?

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                  Possibly, at that point it would be based on trust that the administration would not continue genocide actions. If Israel changed the ruling party and immediately stopped their genocide then that would be the fastest means to return. I have issues with the land grab into Palestine for the same reason i side with Ukraine. But genocide gives me more than just issues.

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                    Okay you have an issue with the land grab so you stop being allies with Israel. They won’t stop the genocide. Israel will continue with the weapons they already have. Now they think they absolutely need to take over Palestine because they can’t have neighbors that are controlled by Hamas.

                    Was that the right choice? Should the US stop the genocide by sending troops and money to government of Palestine? Maybe the money that was intended for Israel?

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      It being that important, surely somebody in the US government and intelligence have thought that they might not be abusing only that importance for funds, but the ties themselves for influence. In the sense of spying at the US, corruption and such.

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        They could very well be doing those things. Israel is a technology powerhouse now. Being allies allows more political accountability.