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What are they supposed to do? Invade Israel?
Yes, why not? But realistically we could stop enabling them, isolate them, sanction them. These are three ways Israel would really feel hard. But who am I kidding that such thing might happen, right? Because, apparently, West is happy with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity happening as long as they are committed by our friends.
Edit: grammar
None of them sell them weapons and they all are perfectly happy to fault them diplomaticly. Only the USA and Germany actually sell weapons to Israel these days. So it really is not the entire West doing it, but two countries and even then the US is really the big one.
You'd think so, eh. Here, a headline: "Macron calls to halt arms deliveries to Israel in Gaza war" dated 6 October 2024. Then there is Italy which is still honoring pre-oct-7 deals and god knows how much traffic goes unnoticed. But it's not just enabling them, even ignoring the horrors by watching the other way or even sympathizing with Israel, is helping them. As per US is really the big one - yes, and they have a weapons supply for decades to come. Germany is not that small as well.
Just read this "Spain cancels multimillion ammunition deal with Israel following media leak". ShOCKEd!
Not sell them weapons or bomb their enemies, would be a good start. Maybe gasp sanction them like Apartheid South Africa.
None of them sell weapons to Israel. As for bombing enemies of Israel, Slovenia helped the US in bombing ISIS. There also are training missions against ISIS and in Mali against islamist groups, which Spain and Norway are involved in. Other then that peacekeeping in Lebanon and shooting down Huthi missiles in the Red Sea. None of those groups being fought, have a problem with committing genocide.
So it is pretty obvious who you support.
Yes exactly. That's bombing Israel's regional enemies. And then they've been bombing Iranian targets in Iraq and Syria, among others, since forever. Now I don't support Iran in general and believe they should get the fuck out of the Arab world, but America definitely supports Israel against its regional enemies.
I haven't heard of the Houthis committing genocide so I'm not sure what you're talking about. If anything it was US-backed Saudi Arabia committing genocide against Yemen.
In other words you support the Houthis attacking ships in the Red Sea. Since you are against shooting down missiles launched to attack those ships.
We are talking about Spain, Norway, Ireland and Slovenia here and none of them have activly bombed in Syria or Iraq. Slovenia gave a bit of aid to the US, when they attacked ISIS.
I have not said they commit genocide, they just call for it and clearly have no problem with killing a lot of people.
I mean yes exactly. I do think they should be more transparent and consistent about who they target, but I do agree with the principle. They're hitting Israel where it hurts and it's working.
Okay that's my bad. In my mind the conversation had shifted to Europe in general. Nevermind I don't have issue with any of these countries regarding Palestine.