this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
615 points (95.0% liked)

World News

38790 readers
2594 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My sympathy for Israel is pretty much gone now.

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They definitely got played like a fiddle and did exactly what their enemies wanted them to do.

The ripple effects of this genocide is going to ruin their ability to have normal state relations and any semblance of security for generations.

Israel lost the long game, because they reacted and failed to choose to respond.

[–] effward@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is really weird phrasing that pretends that Israel has no responsibility for their actions.

They chose to do this, they are responsible for what they've done.

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Let me be clear. Israel is fully responsible. They were an obvious mark for manipulation (this is Israel's fault). Because of this, an adversary provoked them, and successfully goaded them into making a genocidal blunder. Also Israel's fault.

The Israeli government is unhinged, hateful and fascist and those qualities were leveraged by an adversary. It's an absolute embarrassment.

[–] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

Let me just clarify that this is my sympathy for the State of Israel that I'm talking about, not my attitude toward Jewish people in general who have nothing to do with this.