this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
763 points (97.6% liked)

World News

32285 readers
1 users here now

News from around the world!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Government attributes decision to war crimes and human rights abuses being committed in Gaza

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 106 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Basically every country, for the most part, wants to keep regular relations going with every other country. Doesn’t mean they agree with each other or really even engage in trade. They want to remain friendly and have open communications channels. Severing ties in this way means that there is no possible normal interactions between them again.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 72 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Good. Only ~215 countries to go. No one should have normal interactions with Israel or anyone who supports Israel.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being able to talk to a government is a far cry from supporting it or agreeing with it. Even if you dislike Israel, you should want there to be diplomatic relations - that is how other countries can exert influence and attempt to steer them off more radical courses, after all.

Case in point - if the West had no diplomacy with them, then the opening of the border crossing into Egypt would never have happened.

[–] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Counter example: America doesn't negotiate with terrorists.

load more comments (14 replies)
load more comments (18 replies)