this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
309 points (97.0% liked)

World News

38188 readers
1978 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 [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


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
[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What, like we're going to break our streak now? To governments, human lives are spreadsheet entries at best.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man, you'd think that if it was all spreadsheet shit we'd at least have the sense to side with a horrifically oppressive country that gives us something of value in return instead of just spitting in our face and demanding more support.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We're pretty convinced they give us leverage in oil energy. We'll do just about anything for literal power.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We’re pretty convinced they give us leverage in oil energy.

I don't think they do, though. And I'm pretty sure the US government knows that.

Ah, domestic politics. What a fun way to ruin international politics.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not disagreeing - what's your basis for the US not believing it and do you have an alternate explanation for the continued financial support of Israel? The only alternate theory I've heard is Christianity propping up Zionism to incite the 2nd coming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Domestic politics. SInce the 1980s refusing support to Israel has been an absolute non-starter due to a mixture of a stronger Israeli right-wing, the rise of evangelical influence in US politics, increased hostility towards Muslims, and improvement in Israeli PR and lobby work in the States.