Comment on Israeli parliament votes to ban Unrwa from Israel within 90 days

• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, but trying to cut ties with un humanitarian services is going to erode their already shaky position with purported allies. No treaty or alliance can survive everything. At some point, the risk/reward analysis is going to turn against them, and even their allies that rely on them to be a force projection in the region are going to start abandoning them.

  Are they thinking that if they keep this shit up that they’ll get attacked full on and their tenuous alliances are going to jump into a world war for them?

  It’s such shitty long term thinking. Yeah, maybe they take Palestine fully before they lose backing, but what would they be left with? It wouldn’t gain them anything worth having long term, and could cost them so much if it goes wrong.

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  • guismo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    is going to erode their already shaky position with purported allies.

    As if… their history is full of stuff worse than this and nothing ever happened to them. Whatever chain they have in the ones they command is unbreakable. I think anything sort of nuking Palestine wouldn’t affect them.

    They can literally bomb their allies if they don’t do what they want with no consequences. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing

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  • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I believe their thinking is - they are tired of dealing with the escalation they provoked and aren’t going to get another chance to fully genocide the Palestinians if they don’t strike now. They have nukes and once they can settle the rest of the occupied territory it’ll be a fair accompli - they can de-escalate and re-establish international diplomacy at that point.

    I don’t think it’ll work out that way.

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