Israel/Hamas War Superthread

[Belsnickel]

(03-26-2024, 07:32 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Does it, though?  Consider the alternative, which we just witnessed.  A massive political and propaganda win for both Hamas and Iran, enhancing their position in the region, while lessening that of Israel.  Now ask yourself the following, if other Arab nations sense that the US no longer has Israel's back, are they more or less likely to fund efforts to attack and destabilize that nation or less?  Everyone here knows, well almost everyone, that if they had the power Israel's neighbors would eliminate the country entirely.  Giving them more leeway to do so seems like a poor choice.

At some point we'll have to come to terms with the fact that the end game here is Israel dominant enough not to be eff'ed with or no more Israel.  There is some wiggle room in the middle, but the spineless move in the UN was not that and certainly contributed to the latter.

It does, because it looks like Israel gets to just walk all over us. When we continue to provide unconditional aid to a country that has explicitly expressed differences in position to the extent Israel has really makes us look like pushovers. I get what you're saying, here, but we were already looking like bitches and there is no graceful way out of that.