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The Israel Defense Forces releases surveillance camera footage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thai citizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7 to the medical center.

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[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're a fellow American, please stop weighing in on this whole thing. We shouldn't be propping up Israel to begin with. We shouldn't be involved in this at all.

Our support of Israel was certainly factored into Hamas's decision to escalate things. And the blowback we'll get from unconditionally supporting Israel is completely, COMPLETELY predictable.

Covid gave us an opportunity to turn the page on the war on terror, and now our unwavering support for one side of this conflict is going to prompt some yahoo to commit something stupid, and start the war on terror up all over again.

There is no upside in supporting one side over the other in this one - we need to sit it out. Stop sending billions to Israel every year and providing a pretext for some sort of revenge attack on us. Saudi doesn't care what we think anymore, OPEC is going to do whatever it wants.

The US foreign affairs community seems to be of the opinion that our involvement in Israel and its recognition by KSA or any other big player in the region is going to secure the status of the petrodollar. But de-dollarization is going to happen anyway, thanks to BRICS.

So we'll continue to sell arms to Saudi Arabia while they continue to not supply us with enough oil to keep prices low, and we'll continue to prop up Israel while they continue to piss off the entire region.

And everyone is just... okay with this?

[–] Jamil@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

There is no US and Israel. There is only US-Israel.

Israel is an extension of US foreign policy. The politics between them is all theatre. All Americans are culpable for its actions.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And everyone is just… okay with this?

No, I'd like to see more US intervention, pretty much worldwide. Isolationism is stupid and destructive.

But de-dollarization is going to happen anyway, thanks to BRICS.

Lmao no