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im not sure if it doesnt apply to israel, as much as it wouldnt apply to the US more broadly, since we've seen this stuff with proxy partners in the past, autralia during the iraq war i believe.
This seems to be a general theme in the US military going back through recent history with all the democracy spreading wars and what not.
Well, yeah, Israel is the 51st State. The law doesn't apply to Israel because it doesn't apply to the US. Even the US's own laws.
i mean, that's obviously not true. But this is a shitpost so that doesn't matter.
Admittance to the union though goes through congress (which also requires a majority vote), which has discretion over that event, so yknow, i'm not certain it would happen. Although if it did that would probably be beneficial because than israel would really have a good reason to stop committing war crimes.
What's not true? That Israel is an extension of the US empire? Or that the law doesn't apply to these war criminals?
They can torture and rape Palestinians in their dungeons for fun and there are no consequences, and it's because they are fundamentally part of the American project.
the statehood part, it's some form of extension of US power projection, but that's to be expected, every world power does this. Including russia and china. I believe russia runs a really large blood diamond ring, and china, well they do a few things. Natural resource extraction seems to be a big one right now though. The soviet union also did this.
They can torture and rape Palestinians in their dungeons for fun and there are no consequences, and it’s because they are fundamentally part of the American project.
that could be happening, but there is also a video of a wagner PMC guy having his head squished gently by a sledgehammer, so uh. Granted we don't directly provide aid, but we also do have Guantanamo bay still so.
Ugh, okay, obviously it's not legally a state. No shit. I call it a state to emphasize how integral it is to the US. It's not just power projection, like the Saudi allies or the Ukrainian allies, it's a fundamentally important component of the empire. The empire would be drastically different without Israel to act as a bulwark against African migration and unsinkable aircraft carrier to police oil and gas supplies and a laboratory of oppression for border technology and prison technology and surveillance technology.
The US values Israel higher than literally every other ally and vassal state put together. If the US somehow had to choose between sacrificing Israel or an actual state like Iowa, they'd happily nuke Iowa to keep Israel.
idk that they'd nuke iowa tbh. I think they'd probably nuke israel and then turn it into a US state, but that's just me. Exercising a little military effort is going to be vastly more popular than literally deleting iowa.
Israel's genocide isn't popular either but they're still doing it and they won't stop.
Israel is that important. Popularity comes second. What are people going to do anyway? Vote for the other guy? lol
and it's also not legally classified as being genocide? Which would probably be the biggest determining factor in this case. Also i'm not sure what you specifically mean by "popularity comes second" a very small minority of people on the left are die hard voters on this issue. The vast majority of people on the left would prefer it "stop" but that's a really complicated solution to a very long running and complex issue such as israel. For one thing we probably shouldn't just go and get rid of israel because, well, genocide.
the US historically doesn't abide by most formality when it comes to this stuff, like both Russia/China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Cluster_Munitions#Adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty
just two pretty pertinent examples here.
regardless of these facts, israel is definitely doing some amount of war crime, the settlements for example, likely to be highly illegal. Disallowing people from fleeing would be another significant one, but i dont know much about that one.
Also i’m not sure what you specifically mean by “popularity comes second” a very small minority of people on the left are die hard voters on this issue. The vast majority of people on the left would prefer it “stop” but that’s a really complicated solution to a very long running and complex issue such as israel. For one thing we probably shouldn’t just go and get rid of israel because, well, genocide.
It's hard to actually find up-to-date polling (big surprise) but only 42 percent of the US public would favor using US troops to defend Israel if it were attached by Iran (56% oppose). While a slim majority of Republicans would favor US forces defending Israel in this scenario (53%), only four in 10 Independents (42%) and third of Democrats (34%) agree. Yet, we're already putting carriers with US troops in region to threaten Iran in case they retaliate. This suggests, to me, that popular support comes second.
the US historically doesn’t abide by most formality when it comes to this stuff
These recent offenses are certainly more egregious than any violation that has come before, though. US policy on Israel is destroying international legitimacy of the US and its so-called "rules based international order" - and it's worth it to the US because Israel is more important than what any other country has to say.
It’s hard to actually find up-to-date polling (big surprise)
yeah im not really surprised lol.
but only 42 percent of the US public would favor using US troops to defend Israel if it were attached by Iran (56% oppose). While a slim majority of Republicans would favor US forces defending Israel in this scenario (53%), only four in 10 Independents (42%) and third of Democrats (34%) agree.
for one thing, this is iran directly, the US unilaterally does not like sending troops into overseas wars, this has been a thing since the vietnam war. The korean war was more admirable as it was a more supported war, since they were an existing territory. Things like taiwan and hong kong which want independence are also more popular as well. But even then sending troops would still be relatively unpopular. And when it does happen it's mostly border control reasons, not for actual combat. Similar to the US troops stationed in poland in the early ukraine war days.
Yet, we’re already putting carriers with US troops in region to threaten Iran in case they retaliate. This suggests, to me, that popular support comes second.
this is also not the same as putting troops into war, we do this with basically every potential military conflict, it's strategic power projection if needed. They're not pulling up carriers to the beach and sending soldiers in, though they might send a few planes over, the likelihood of either iran or palestine taking them down is, low. They might also send over a few missiles, who knows. But a direct troop defense is extremely unlikely. And it's certainly even more unlikely that a draft would happen.
"The one instance presented to Americans where a majority (54%) would still favor using US troops is in a peacekeeping scenario if Israel and the Palestinians reached a peace agreement. Democrats (62%) are most willing of all the partisans to use US troops in a peacekeeping manner, consistent with previous polling. About half of Independents (51%) and Republicans (48%) agree."
this is also a fairly interesting stat here. So there is some level of popularity here.
These recent offenses are certainly more egregious than any violation that has come before, though. US policy on Israel is destroying international legitimacy of the US and its so-called “rules based international order” - and it’s worth it to the US because Israel is more important than what any other country has to say.
i mean idk, the iraq war was pretty bad, we had the whole WMD thing as well. Again the vietnam war, those people literally considered us war criminals, rather than POW, but that might very well be bias on their part. We literally only joined ww2 when japan had decided to attack us. The US has historically had a policy of self preservation, as do most states. We're still the primary capital and defense force of the world, our navy is one of the strongest, if not the strongest in the world.
It might be true that this stuff negatively influences america, but i don't really think it matters on the grand scheme of things. This is certainly more admirable than a lot of stuff that russia does, and most certainly a lot of things that go on in china.