Why is the US still sending an endless supply of arms to Israel without conditions? | Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
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The law requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

The law ( the Leahy Law) requires that the US vet any foreign military receiving US arms. However, that doesn’t happen with Israel

    • Toldry@lemmy.world
      176·
      11 months ago

      You can credibldy argue that Israel has an outsized influence of US foreign policy, but to call the US an “Israeli puppet state” is such a hyperbolic exaggeration that it sounds less like a valid criticism and more like the old “Jews control the world” antisemitic hate speech.

      The US has far more influence on Israel than vice versa

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
        61·
        11 months ago

        Its hard to tell sometimes whether somebody is using phrasing like that naively or as a dog whistle (which is why its an effective dog whistle). The reality is Israel plays a critical role in maintaining US empire and public image and Netanyahu is cashing in those in for a racist child-killing spree.

      • cannache@slrpnk.net
        31·
        11 months ago

        Agreed. The USA is simply too powerful to ever become anyone’s lapdog, they’re a force unto themselves

      • cannache@slrpnk.net
        2·
        11 months ago

        Let’s not commit to hyperbole. Netty is just a manipulative ass who needs Israel distracted with another war

      • SCB@lemmy.world
        212·
        11 months ago

        fucking oppressed palestinian people, how dare they resist genocide, right?

        There is no genocide of Palestinians. Less than 1% of Palestinians have been killed in this conflict

        • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
          31·
          11 months ago

          In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

          a. Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

          b. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

          c. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

          d. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

          I’m not totally convinced that this is Israel’s intent—most of what I’ve seen points to a brazen and sociopathic indifference typical of 7th graders and goofy “strongman” populists like Netanyahu alike—but the percentage of the population killed does not factor in determining whether it is genocide.

          • SCB@lemmy.world
            28·
            11 months ago

            They’ve killed 0.6% of the population, counting enemy militants.

            Gaza is 5x the density of Mosul, in which the US (who quite obviously was not committing genocide) killed ~10,000 civilians.

            Things can be shitty and not be genocide.

            • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
              1·
              11 months ago

              Again, I really don’t to weigh in on whether or not it is genocide, if only because I’m not gonna change anybody’s opinion here. Alls I’m saying is that the qualifications for genocide do not include the destruction of the entire, or even the majority of, the population.

              • SCB@lemmy.world
                16·
                11 months ago

                Any sane look at the situation makes it obvious it is not genocide

                • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  11 months ago

                  And I’m still not trying to argue with you on that. I’m just saying that the numbers you’re citing do not support your case. There are most definitely situations where killing 0.6% of a population would be considered genocide.

                  • SCB@lemmy.world
                    15·
                    11 months ago

                    Maybe, if they fit any of the other criteria, which Israel obviously does not

                • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
                  27·
                  11 months ago

                  Raz Segal is an associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University and the endowed professor in the study of modern genocide.

                  TIL A Jewish professor of Holocaust and genocide studies is insane.

      • sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
        720·
        11 months ago

        I must have missed the memo where raping women to death, slicing off their tits, and mutilating their vaginas is classified as “resisting oppression”.

        Hamas is bad. Very bad.