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0 pointspphysch2y ago0 comments

> Israel seems to only extend that sort of courtesy to a part of its citizenry, but when you remember that the "stable" countries in the region are all more-or-less absolute monarchies, it becomes obvious why the US is willing to at least work with Israel.

More directly: apartheid "democracy" > monarchy?

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lenerdenator2y ago· 3 in thread

According to the wisdom of US foreign policy, yes.

For what it's worth, the US has also tried to work a two-state solution over the last 30 years with various degrees of vigor. That became much harder to accomplish when the Gaza Strip decided to elect Hamas to lead its government in 2006-07.

dragonwriter2y ago

> For what it's worth, the US has also tried to work a two-state solution over the last 30 years with various degrees of vigor. That became much harder to accomplish when the Gaza Strip decided to elect Hamas to lead its government in 2006-07.

It became much harder when the Israeli hard Right murdered Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 and then took over the Israeli government with Netanyahu's election in 1996.

Both fairly explicitly in reaction against the idea of ever accepting a Palestinian State.

nsguy2y ago

It's worth mentioning that Rabin's murder was almost certainly related/triggered to the wave of suicide bombing attacks by Hamas that came as a response to the peace process. The Israeli right was up in arms about how the peace process was leading to terrorism. I.e. the root cause of this was Palestinians, not Israelis.

Levitz2y ago

>That became much harder to accomplish when the Gaza Strip decided to elect Hamas to lead its government in 2006-07.

Which Israel can't be blamed for enough.

Let's just leave this place filled with insurgents without any coordination with the authority. I wonder what will happen.

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