Comparing the height of an ant to the width of a hair becomes rather meaningless when you’re trying to get through the second-storey window of a burning building. What you have given is the lowest possible bar, as the person they’re supposedly better than is actively suborning genocide.
While the US directly supplies weapons, funding, and openly encourages escalation against Palestine, while we threaten and extort these countries from recognizing Palestinian statehood, you claim no discernable difference between these two stances. Maybe a timeless god would see things your way but here in this shitty reality this is about as stark as the contrast gets outside of the Middle East.
“There is no difference between any two things, you imbecile, you simple rube” is a very popular position that allows you to both appear smarter than everyone and also never change your mental state on anything
All of the ones in this cartoon are still sending weapons to Israel and the UK specifically is still flying surveillance flights over Gaza and giving the info to Israel as well as arresting old ladies as Terrorist Supporters when they demonstrate against this Genocide.
This action of theirs now is 100% performative and not just has zero effective impact on the suffering of Palestinians but possibly even has negative impact if it reduces the pressure of the Public Opinion in those countries to stop Israel and thus delays actual effective and meaningful action.
Some of the nations in this, most noteably the Brits have a policy towards the Israeli Genocide which is basically the US plus an extra thick layer of hypocrisy.
Don’t confuse the difference in façades for a difference in intention.
I don’t disagree that there is a difference, but setting the bar at “isn’t actively saying, with public, official statements, that they support the extermination of the native population of Palestine” is just too low a bar for me. As I’ve said in another comment here, from my perspective, this is nothing but a bunch of bullies who’ve been kicking some kid, and now that one of the bullies has clearly done permanent damage, they’re all saying “hey bro, it’s just a joke, bro, are you okay, bro?” Not even trying to stop the other two bullies who are still actively curb-stomping the kid.
As the comic implies, it just seems like a publicity stunt, because doing this now doesn’t appear to have any actual value any longer, because I don’t see how recognising a government-in-exile is going to meaningfully help any part of the plight of the Palestinian people. This just seems like a pragmatic thing that they think will drum up public support, while not requiring them to actually do anything, because they know that any actual enforcement of international law against the war criminals would require the US’ cooperation, so they’re “safe” to make these too-little-too-late declarations of “support”.
Comparing the height of an ant to the width of a hair becomes rather meaningless when you’re trying to get through the second-storey window of a burning building. What you have given is the lowest possible bar, as the person they’re supposedly better than is actively suborning genocide.
While the US directly supplies weapons, funding, and openly encourages escalation against Palestine, while we threaten and extort these countries from recognizing Palestinian statehood, you claim no discernable difference between these two stances. Maybe a timeless god would see things your way but here in this shitty reality this is about as stark as the contrast gets outside of the Middle East.
“There is no difference between any two things, you imbecile, you simple rube” is a very popular position that allows you to both appear smarter than everyone and also never change your mental state on anything
All of the ones in this cartoon are still sending weapons to Israel and the UK specifically is still flying surveillance flights over Gaza and giving the info to Israel as well as arresting old ladies as Terrorist Supporters when they demonstrate against this Genocide.
This action of theirs now is 100% performative and not just has zero effective impact on the suffering of Palestinians but possibly even has negative impact if it reduces the pressure of the Public Opinion in those countries to stop Israel and thus delays actual effective and meaningful action.
Some of the nations in this, most noteably the Brits have a policy towards the Israeli Genocide which is basically the US plus an extra thick layer of hypocrisy.
Don’t confuse the difference in façades for a difference in intention.
I don’t disagree that there is a difference, but setting the bar at “isn’t actively saying, with public, official statements, that they support the extermination of the native population of Palestine” is just too low a bar for me. As I’ve said in another comment here, from my perspective, this is nothing but a bunch of bullies who’ve been kicking some kid, and now that one of the bullies has clearly done permanent damage, they’re all saying “hey bro, it’s just a joke, bro, are you okay, bro?” Not even trying to stop the other two bullies who are still actively curb-stomping the kid.
As the comic implies, it just seems like a publicity stunt, because doing this now doesn’t appear to have any actual value any longer, because I don’t see how recognising a government-in-exile is going to meaningfully help any part of the plight of the Palestinian people. This just seems like a pragmatic thing that they think will drum up public support, while not requiring them to actually do anything, because they know that any actual enforcement of international law against the war criminals would require the US’ cooperation, so they’re “safe” to make these too-little-too-late declarations of “support”.