Hamas strike on Israel - Threadbans in op - mod warning in OP updated 19/10/23

They may have if rockets were being fired into their country from that area daily/weekly.

Put cant compare as the scenarios are different.

Whether they are granting a right is debatable, they are certainly enabling them by supplying weapons. With this in mind the US justice department stopped short of confirming this in a report on the matter due to political considerations, but it was clear they thought weapons supplied by the US had more than likely been used in violation of international law.

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THe Israeli ambassador said Ireland could lose tech investment from their move to recognise Palestine.

I just googled and can't see any big Israeli tech companies. Am I missing something? Is she assuming all US tech companies are going to roll in behind her and leave Ireland? If so, she's an idiot.

When the mask slips, it slips. It's not bad faith to call out blatant anti-semitism wherever it rears its head. Surely, it should be possible to criticise current Israeli policy without stooping to that level.

Rwandans killed 700,000 people of a different tribe with machetes over a few weeks and I don't remember such hand-wringing on here. Was it because the perpetrators weren't Jewish?

or just maybe it’s because the site didn’t exist yet. Hell Quake didn’t even exist yet. Give the hell over.

It's not hypocritical to call out Biden for having no red lines and continuing to supply weapons , that he even admitted could have been used in violation of their own rules on the use of such weapons? You know full well that if it was any other country there would be sanctions on Israel already for their policies in the West Bank. If anything the hypocrisy is on the right for inviting a suspected War Criminal to speak in Washington. The ICC was praised by Biden when it indicted Putin. Yet Biden denounced it for seeking an arrest warrant for Bibi. Do you see any double standards there? Do you only see hypocrisy on the left because of your own views?

Has anyone here excused Assad? As far as I am aware there was a thread on boards about the Syrian Civil war with the majority of posts being critical of Assad. In any case how does the look over there defense excuse Israel. Is bad conduct ok, because someone might have managed to kill more people in another conflict? The reason Israel gets attention is because they claim to be a liberal democracy and are backed up by a superpower, who would be calling for sanctions if another country pursued the policies Israel does.

It's quite mad who some people can be so selective in these situations.

People are constantly putting up signs of boycotting Puma and Siemens because they are Israeli. Yet no body will discuss the elephant in the room that, on one hand Ireland has been one of the most vocal critic of Israel. Yet at the same time, Ireland has blood on its hand because it continues to accommodate US tech companies that are contributing to the suffering of the Palestinian people to the taxes they pay. The situation would not be half as bad as it is now without US support.

Why aren't people boycotting Apple or spotify?

Your “ point “ doesn’t stand… what actually is your point? Is it Israel can do what it wants because some other group of people in the past did worse?

Is this the last straw the Pro Israel side have to clutch?

Well Spotify is Swedish so there is that. I think a boycott of Israeli companies is a start but it would only really work if there was an international movement to do this.

I think the US government is more to blame than any US tech company.

That's true, had we told Israel to release the thousands of Palestinian hostages in their prisons or we will recognize the state of Palestine, that would have freed more hostages right? /s

In a way, countries who call for a 2 state solution but only recognize one side as a state is a little baffling.

People are deluded that if Hamas handed over the remaining hostages that Israel would just pull out. It will be 'we have to carry on to find the bodies of other hostages' followed by 'we have to carry on and eliminate Hamas' then it's the tunnels and the command centers etc..