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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-08-02 03:03 pm

[ SECRET POST #2769 ]


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(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Out of curiosity, do any of you lovely people give a shit about, for example, the extensive killing going on in Syria and the hundreds and hundreds of civilians murdered?

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I hate these sort of implications.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
They're legitimate ones, tho. Israel gets a disproportional amount of attention for some of the, honestly, lesser crimes happening in the ME.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably because Israel is thought to belong to the western world, whereas Syria is not. I'm pretty sure there'd be a lot of loud international reactions if Spain bombed Basque Country, too.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know if that's the entire truth- Amerca's drone attacks in Pakistan haven't garnered as much attention as Israel's actions, despite having high civillains casualties.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Pakistan also isn't thought to belong to the western world, whereas Basque country does.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-03 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
But Palestine doesn't.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Whether yes or no, what does that have to do with the topic at hand, and why would we bring that up?

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm certainly concerned about the rebels that America is backing there, the war would be over already if we'd stayed out. Our "covert" support is just prolonging things. Same with our backing for Israel, it is just enabling greater loss of life. We need to stop underwriting other fighting forces. That includes those Nukes we lease to the Brits too.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I think, though it's just my speculation here, that Israel gets singled out so much because the deck is REALLY stacked in its favor in this case. When you look at the statistics of the conflict for example (from Wikipedia):

Israel:
63 soldiers, 2 civilians and 1 Thai worker killed; 400 soldiers[11] and 23 civilians wounded;[12] 1 soldier captured[11]

Hamas:
146 soldiers killed[13] and 1 soldier captured[14]

UN OCHA: 1,439 killed (926 civilians, 191 militants, 322 unknown)[17]

Gaza's losses are enormous and civilian/UN buildings are being targeted.

I think, to a lot of people, it's not that Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself. It's that its actions are seen as overkill.

That'd be my guess.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly if I ever manage to figure out what the hell the sides are on that or if there is anyone to be reasoned with who will not just get annoyed at us for interfering I will get back to you on that

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
if jews aren't involved, no

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
As someone who lives on stolen land, I really hope the anti-semites don't start getting introspective and demand America start compensating its victims as well. I just finished paying for this house.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
not everyone who is critical of Israel thinks Israel should stop existing

also i'm totally down with massive reparations to Indian tribes so IDK what yr point really is anyway

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Just Israel should learn to share A LOT better than it does. It would help if it withdrew to its legal borders too.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-03 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not a literally brain damaged person who can't clean my own house before talking about other people's!"

Good for you, but why did you think I was talking about you then?

(Anonymous) 2014-08-05 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
LOL shut the fuck up, it's the Arabs who didn't know how to share.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-02 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Britain is going to be real overcrowded if everyone gets sent back to the motherland.

(Anonymous) 2014-08-03 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
I see this a lot on Reddit.

"You care about the mindless massacre of Palestinians? BUT WHAT ABOUT SYRIAAAAAAAAA. WHICH I DON'T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT. BUT LOOK AT SYRIA. ANYWHERE BUT THE DEAD PALESTINIAN CHILDREN HELD BY THEIR CRYING PARENTS"