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What followed was a wave of shooting and arson attacks across 11 Palestinian villages in which a dozen homes and more than 100 cars were torched, thousands of animals were slaughtered, four people were shot dead and scores of others were seriously wounded.

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[–] shish_mish@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, I just finished reading and I don't understand why the world is not acting. Why can Israel act with impunity. The Western nations have clearly shown that the rules are different for non-white people and that their lives are not as valuable. The hypocrisy is shameful. These are people with dreams and hopes just like us. The language used by the government, describing Palestinians as vermin and animals emboldens the settlers. There seem to be few repercussions for killing a Palestinian, if any. Israel keeps saying ups this was a mistake and ups we bulldozed entire villages and ups, a mass grave. They say they will investigate but when they do, they find no wrong doing or just a misdemeanour or an error. The whole situation is a clusterfuck, any other country would be sanctioned at the least, and ostracised. And why are the other Arab nations not helping Palestine more? I understand the situation is complicated, but there are many diplomatic measures to put pressure on Israel without getting involved in the fighting.

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This is exactly what pisses me off about all of this... it's 2024, we see live footage on various platforms, and the "leaders" make eurovision-like decisions all over the past few months.

It's not 1945 where they used to make decisions based on hearsay, its 2024 ffs, with live footage.

They spread fakenews about beheaded babies without any proof and justified the killings. But the footage that clearly shows acts of crime isn't remotely considered to stop this cruelty.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Israel is enabled by the USA for the last 75 years. They vetoed every resolution even condemning Israeli atrocities.

[–] applepie@kbin.social 9 points 5 months ago

Arabs are in the pocket of the US, they would never sacrifice anything for this cause esp not US weapon supplies.

US too will have to face consequences for Israel's actions as we are the necessary condition for these war crimes.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There's multiple reasons:

  • Zionists have made it a priority to make sure they have their people / sympathisers in high places in politics and media. Anyone who even hints at considering calling Palestinians people gets pushed out.
  • Israel is a laboratory for 'policing', anti-terrorism and surveillance tactics. This technology and know-how is indispensable for both the 'democracies' in the West and dictatorships, including Arab dictatorships that pay lip service to the Palestinian cause, but don't actually do anything. If crowd control tactics work on Palestinians, they work on leftie protestors and civil rights movements in the West and popular democratic movements in authoritarian regimes.
  • people don't want to be called anti-semites (especially in Europe, where every country has a horrific history with that), which is why they've been trying very hard to conflate Zionism with Jewishness.
  • there's also a global right-wing nationalism on the rise, where people like Modi, Orban, Trump, Netanyahu, ... sort of espouse the same rhetoric that used to be limited to white supremacy, but it's just applied to their ethnicity/race/religious group. The neo-nazis are still anti-semites, but they see Israel as the place they can ship all the Jews to when the time comes. Israel's actions making Jews outside of Israel a target for retaliation plays into that as well.