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Originally Posted by Dunyain
Meh. You can make the argument of American allegiance for a lot of conflicts neither leftist or Muslim activists care much about at all.
Our relationship with Saudi and our involvement in the Saudi conflict with the Houthis is a pretty good parallel, except for the amount of human suffering of the Yemen population is actually exponentially more than the Palestinians. And the energy around the outrage from the left and Muslim world isn't 1/1,000,000 the outrage concerning the Palestinians.
I of course believe, like Palestinians, the Yemen are mainly responsible for their own situation, and they are reaping what they are sowing. But we know the left and Muslim activist crowd certainly doesn't believe this, and if the left and Muslim world was actually just outraged by "American allegiance," there is certainly no reason they wouldn't be just as concerned about the Yemeni population as the Palestinians.
We are strong military and economic partners with Turkey, and honestly minus what happened in Rwanda they are pretty much the modern world kings of genocide, and have been for the last 100+ years. And no shits given by leftists or the Muslim world.
We give tons of military aid to Qatar, and our main military installation in the Middle East is in their nation. And they literally used human slaves to build soccer stadiums, and no shits given by the left or Muslim activists
The list really is endless. Sorry, "American allegiance" is not a good explanation. Maybe "hatred of western civlization" itself works better, as many of our "allies" are not perceived by the left as part of the western world, whereas Israel is.
But honestly, Jew hatred is the simplest explanation for what is going on, especially from the Muslim world, and hence probably the most accurate.
I don't really understand how this justifies the current genocide not being called genocide. That's rafiki's point. That this is only being called genocide because of Jew hatred. This is being classified as genocide because it is genocide. You admitted as such and I've respected your point of view because we agree on a lot itt.
I get what you're saying. People don't really pay attention, but Israel-Palestine is a provocative subject. It isn't due to Jew hatred. It's due to the extreme polarization making for good television. There was no "that Sudan **** is totally cool with me" attitude to stage debates.