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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

How’s that gonna change anything

It's not. But other stuff does. I e.g. talked about how Poland dealt with things.

Different actors in different situations require different approaches to change their behaviour. Is that such a controversial take?

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

And what did the other nation do? In particular German, UK, Australia, US?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Germany is effectively boycotting settlement products and has very deep ties into the whole of Israeli civil society and politics, doing our best behind the scenes to stop Israel from falling to fascism. We're also funding tons of projects in Palestine, along with generally speaking the EU. Because of history and to not risk those deep ties, don't ever expect Germany to play the bad cop.

All these are long-standing and long-term strategies. I mean to even threaten suspending UNWRA funds you have to be funding them in the first place, aren't you.

UK historically has been very friendly with the Arabs so Israelis are apprehensive of them, anyway. They're not a core player. Australia doesn't even register on the radar and the US is, as so often, being bonkers.

[–] fololzidos@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Very hot take. Our media narrative and political communication are incredibly biased towards the Israeli take, we have 100,000s of Palestinian citizens and millions of Muslim citizens whose voices we ignore. We actively cancel funding for peace activists and silence even Jewish Israelis who are anti-Zionist. We still deliver weapons to Israel and now also deny funding for innocent civilians starving & freezing to death. Germany is not only complicit, Germany and other western countries are actively enabling this genocide and it sickens me.

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