Britain trained Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What nobody has properly explained to me is why… why these Western governments fall over themselves to help Israel when they are clearly hell bent on genocide?

  Like what is the risk reward for them? Are they being paid stupid amounts of money? Is everyone in power blackmailed by Mossad? What is it to these countries like the US, UK, Germany, etc ? If Afghanistan or Iran came to us and said “Hey can you give us weapons and train our military so we can clear out these pesky people on the edges of our country and buy our goods and services made from occupied land for a shit ton of money” would we do that?

  I think I know the reason for this: good old fashioned racism. But it constantly baffles me why the UK risks being associated with Israeli genocide like this.

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  • Womble@piefed.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Racsism is likely part of it, but the real value is in having a solid ally that can be used as a base to project power across the largest oil producing region in the world.

    How long Israel remains seen as a solid ally given their recent unhinged and mask off behaviour remains to be seen. To me it does feel like there is a sea change in opinion on them, both from everyday people and from politicos.

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• MonsterMonster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Training as in “how to shoot 6 year old children whilst they scramble for food”. Here.

  Disgraceful.

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• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Western militaries have always and will always train the IDF

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