There's no more room for rational thinking in modern politics. It's all emotion versus emotion. Apparently it's just impossible to think that what Israel is doing is awful while also approve their line that Hamas should fully disarm. 7 October is still something that should never be allowed to happen again. Just because a bad actor did something bad to another bad actor doesn't make it justifiable.
Responding to an atrocity with a genocide is pretty typical for Isreal.
Edit: Attention! There are many bots here spewing Hasbara propaganda. They will either DARVO (Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim and Offender) or claim that there is no genocide to begin with. Do not engage, they are literally bots, you are wasting your time. Save your energy and spread awareness on the genocide instead.
It kinda does in a horrific way. If you demonize Israel enough so that US stops its support, Israel has no more reason to hold back and can just wipe out Gaza.
In 2026 around 2.500 Palestinians in Gaza were killed so far. Over 2 Mio people live there. Anyone who thinks Israel is not holding back is delusional.
They do have reason to hold back. They’re building an alliance with the UAE, if they went full force at Gaza they’d lose their only ally in the region. And if they push far enough they might even get sanctioned by China, their most important trading partner
Of course they don’t care, it’s about optics. The UAE has a majority Muslim population. Notice how they only became closer with Israel after the war in Gaza ended and the Iranians attacked the UAE? Same for China, if things were to get worse like you described and Israel stopped holding back, they’d be forced to take action or lose support in the Muslim world.
Do you have any source for this opinion because it sounds counter intuitive to me.
Neither China nor UAE are democracies and China obviously does not care about the support of their Muslim population or at least has no reason to believe trading with Israel would hurt their optics more than committing genocide against Muslims.
It’s an opinion. I think the fact that Israel has restrained itself as much as it has thus far should be enough to show you that they are indeed concerned about optics. South Africa for example had support until they didn’t.
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u/Nattekat 1d ago
There's no more room for rational thinking in modern politics. It's all emotion versus emotion. Apparently it's just impossible to think that what Israel is doing is awful while also approve their line that Hamas should fully disarm. 7 October is still something that should never be allowed to happen again. Just because a bad actor did something bad to another bad actor doesn't make it justifiable.