• Riccosuave@lemmy.world
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    The battle lines are being drawn in the court of public opinion. Now the question becomes how steadfast is the public support behind demanding a peaceful yet forceful resolution to this conflict and finally ending this apartheid regime.

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      1 year ago

      How successful the court of public opinion has been in influencing the outcome of Israel conflict before?

      • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works
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        Israel is a small country that relies on the implicit assumption that Western countries will defend it if a large invasion ever comes to be. If they didn’t need some considerable international support, they would have ethnically cleansed the whole of Palestine already.

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          And if support for Israel stops Palestine and countries like Iran will kill everyone they can in Israel and the country will be replaced by another extremist country lead by terrorists.

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      1 year ago

      Mostly to vent out anti-Semitic frustration in a way that is politically viable

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          In London, some of the protesters chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, despite a controversy around the slogan’s meaning.

          From the article.

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            1 year ago

            Nothing antisemitic about that. Wouldn’t matter what race, religion, ethnicity the apartheid occupiers were.