I think it’s bc the U.S. is already on the side of the good guys in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Israel-Pal is more morally complex. I thought it was obvious. Prob good question is why doesn’t the Bulwark have the same passion towards America breaking international law and siding with 3 tin pot countries against the entire world to block…
I think it’s bc the U.S. is already on the side of the good guys in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Israel-Pal is more morally complex. I thought it was obvious. Prob good question is why doesn’t the Bulwark have the same passion towards America breaking international law and siding with 3 tin pot countries against the entire world to block UN resolutions condemning Israel?
The campus tentists and Palestinian nationalists have a lot of idiotic ideas, even anti-Semitic ones. I think the youth engages in a ton of overheated rhetoric around Israel that’s unfair. But here’s what I would say. The defeat of the pro-life movement was largely a result of republicans putting up a low character person like Trump which made ppl cynical and harder to convince them of the moral cause, in addition to secularization of America ofc. In a way, the pro-choice win is a failure of the pro-life movement more than it is a win for feminists and I think in some ways, the Iraq War, and America deliberately overlooking and sometimes enabling documented Israeli war crimes is what broke the rules based international order more than Trump did. It was a failure to take accountability that created the opening for such cynicism that Trump is able to inverse reality and call Zelensky a dictator.
Obv Iraq happened before MAGA, all I’m trying to say is that there are going to be mistakes in the goal of creating a humane international order, but that’s why there needs to be rigorous accountability on people who screw up. And we especially need to be tougher on our allies when they commit war crimes. To protect against the norm of territorial integrity, it is actually more important Bulwark speak out against Israel annexing the West Bank than Putin taking Ukrainian territory. The sanctity of law and norms only holds when the Global South witnesses those norms applied to our allies, it cannot just be a tool to punish our adversaries. It breeds cynicism and absence of even a pretense of neutral application of law, there’s going to be a jungle and only cynicism, and Trump wins because he isn’t even *trying* to uphold moral values. Israel has a right to exist, it was created through international law, but it needs to exist within defined boundaries. The Israeli far right should not be allowed to mass expel a certain ethnic population and then re-populate that area with another ethnicity of ppl. I’m increasingly convinced ethnic cleansing will happen, but it’s important that it doesn’t happen with American made weapons and that we condemn it. It’s the 21st century and the principle of territorial integrity must be defended.
I think it’s bc the U.S. is already on the side of the good guys in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Israel-Pal is more morally complex. I thought it was obvious. Prob good question is why doesn’t the Bulwark have the same passion towards America breaking international law and siding with 3 tin pot countries against the entire world to block UN resolutions condemning Israel?
I personally started to sour on our policy towards Israel after reading this well-sourced investigative piece detailing in painstaking detail how the administration ignored human rights abuses: https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors.
The campus tentists and Palestinian nationalists have a lot of idiotic ideas, even anti-Semitic ones. I think the youth engages in a ton of overheated rhetoric around Israel that’s unfair. But here’s what I would say. The defeat of the pro-life movement was largely a result of republicans putting up a low character person like Trump which made ppl cynical and harder to convince them of the moral cause, in addition to secularization of America ofc. In a way, the pro-choice win is a failure of the pro-life movement more than it is a win for feminists and I think in some ways, the Iraq War, and America deliberately overlooking and sometimes enabling documented Israeli war crimes is what broke the rules based international order more than Trump did. It was a failure to take accountability that created the opening for such cynicism that Trump is able to inverse reality and call Zelensky a dictator.
Well except that MAGA trumpism broke the rule of law long before Gaza.
Obv Iraq happened before MAGA, all I’m trying to say is that there are going to be mistakes in the goal of creating a humane international order, but that’s why there needs to be rigorous accountability on people who screw up. And we especially need to be tougher on our allies when they commit war crimes. To protect against the norm of territorial integrity, it is actually more important Bulwark speak out against Israel annexing the West Bank than Putin taking Ukrainian territory. The sanctity of law and norms only holds when the Global South witnesses those norms applied to our allies, it cannot just be a tool to punish our adversaries. It breeds cynicism and absence of even a pretense of neutral application of law, there’s going to be a jungle and only cynicism, and Trump wins because he isn’t even *trying* to uphold moral values. Israel has a right to exist, it was created through international law, but it needs to exist within defined boundaries. The Israeli far right should not be allowed to mass expel a certain ethnic population and then re-populate that area with another ethnicity of ppl. I’m increasingly convinced ethnic cleansing will happen, but it’s important that it doesn’t happen with American made weapons and that we condemn it. It’s the 21st century and the principle of territorial integrity must be defended.