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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm still not seeing why Israel is being treated as a priority over or at least equal to Ukraine. Ukraine is up against a legitimately strong adversary using human wave tactics. Israel is dropping bombs seemingly indiscriminately on mostly civilians. Ukraine is fighting for its existence. Israel is getting revenge on its much, much weaker neighbor.

If Iran and its proxies enter the war, that might change the calculations, but that hasn't happened yet.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel is also rich as fuck with a strong military. They do not need financial support.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But politicians elsewhere need israeli support (to get voted they believe)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

NSO group would like a word with you

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Isreal doesn't need help putting the boot on helpless children.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It's a strategic foothold in the region for the US. And "Jeebus."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And the more support Israel gets to kill those civilians the more likely sympathetic regional neighbours would be inclined to join. And rightly so. It's genocide.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Republicans like Israel and don't (all) like Ukraine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Agreed. Even if Iran enters the war, it will be to stop a genocide. I don't understand why the US is so keen to tie themselves to Netanyahu's government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Iran is known as a moral beacon in the region, holding up human rights.

The only reason they would enter a war is, of course, to stop a so called genocide