If we zoom out and look at the bigger picture, Israel would not exist as it does today without Britain’s steadfast backing.
The empire’s successor (America) has provided similarly unwavering support.
Throughout most of my lifetime I have watched Western countries (mostly vassals of the US) turn a blind eye to genocide in Gaza.
More recently the double standards have become most apparent with the war in Ukraine. Western nations took the diplomatic approach of wagging their finger at nations maintaining relations with Russia while asking “have you thought what this will do to your credibility?”
All while giving their full throated support to Israel for most of the past 50 years and before that. Any thought to how that affects your credibility?
These are the double standards that slowly rot away the foundations of civilization.
Imperialism bad if it’s being done to me, ok if we are doing it to someone else. Surely we can be more sophisticated than that.
“Some lines” - what a dismissive way to put it. A British child rapist (Louis Mountbatten, great uncle of present day child rapist former prince Andrew) haphazardly drew a border in South Asia which led to the largest forced migration in human history and two million deaths. The idea that lines don’t mean anything speaks to an abysmal state of history education. There are libraries of work commenting on how the lines drawn by colonial powers in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia contribute to ongoing conflicts in these regions.
If we zoom out and look at the bigger picture, Israel would not exist as it does today without Britain’s steadfast backing.
The empire’s successor (America) has provided similarly unwavering support.
Throughout most of my lifetime I have watched Western countries (mostly vassals of the US) turn a blind eye to genocide in Gaza.
More recently the double standards have become most apparent with the war in Ukraine. Western nations took the diplomatic approach of wagging their finger at nations maintaining relations with Russia while asking “have you thought what this will do to your credibility?”
All while giving their full throated support to Israel for most of the past 50 years and before that. Any thought to how that affects your credibility?
These are the double standards that slowly rot away the foundations of civilization.
Imperialism bad if it’s being done to me, ok if we are doing it to someone else. Surely we can be more sophisticated than that.
“Some lines” - what a dismissive way to put it. A British child rapist (Louis Mountbatten, great uncle of present day child rapist former prince Andrew) haphazardly drew a border in South Asia which led to the largest forced migration in human history and two million deaths. The idea that lines don’t mean anything speaks to an abysmal state of history education. There are libraries of work commenting on how the lines drawn by colonial powers in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia contribute to ongoing conflicts in these regions.