Israel Gaza: China condemns US veto of call for immediate ceasefire at UN
www.bbc.com
Beijing suggests blocking calls for an immediate ceasefire gives a “green light to continued slaughter".
  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    622·
    9 months ago

    U.S. resident (me) also condemns U.S. veto of call for immediate ceasefire. Why are we embarrassing ourselves for Netanyahu’s headassery?

  • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    402·
    9 months ago

    It’s astonishing how the US concedes so much power and treasure to Israel and receives nothing but blame and ignominy in return.

    • DdCno1@kbin.social
      315·
      9 months ago

      That is a remarkably uninformed statement. Israel is a center of cutting-edge research and leading production. Name any field from biotech to semiconductors, from robotics to defense and there’s likely an Israeli research institute or startup at the forefront. That’s a huge asset to have. American tanks would not have a missile defense system without Israel, Intel’s computer chips would be significantly slower and the entire global drone industry, both civilian and military, would be set back by many years if it wasn’t for this small nation, just to name a few examples.

      So much power and treasure? The amount spent on arms sent to Israel is not even a rounding error compared to the entire federal budget. Power? Netanyahu can huff and puff all he wants, Israel is clearly acting within tight limits set by the US.

      • Mrkawfee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        9 months ago

        Israel doesn’t have to be a genocidal ethnostate for that to be the case

        • DdCno1@kbin.social
          112·
          9 months ago

          Good thing that it isn’t.

          I get the feeling that this war is the first one many people are trying to pay attention to and I’m under the impression that the horrors that exist in every war are so totally new and alien to these well-meaning, but poorly informed people that they have no way to deal with them but through superlatives and exaggeration, including the almost dogmatically repeated claim that there is a genocide happening here.

          • Jamil@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            9 months ago

            Really? How do you explain that Jews from anywhere can become citizens and no one else can?

            You’re a clown.

            • DdCno1@kbin.social
              13·
              9 months ago

              Germany has the same system for people of German descent. This does not make Germany an ethnostate either.

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        USA doesn’t use stupid things like Iron dome to protect against homemade unguided rockets, the Trophy system has been repeatedly defeated by Hamas with regular old RPG-7s, Intel would just be buying fron TSMC , China has been making both cheaper and superior drone technology for like a decade now with notable use in Ukraine, and Israel eats 0.05% (3.3bil) of the federal budget in defense aid.

        This is a country built on foreign investment and geopolitical aid، even after the time they blatantly attacked a US ship.

        Israel would economically collapse if the USA ended all relations tomorrow. It exists solely as an economic and miliary asset to the USA which is why they protect it so much.

        EDIT:

        Also no other country wastes expensive guided munitions on targeting civilians and disregarding hostages lmao. I could clown on the effectiveness of the IDF by itself all day. They only look good because they outshine the non-existent competency of the militaries of its neighbors.