Senkaku wrote:I can’t say I think Israeli civilians deserve to get put on catastrophic famine rations and have all medical supplies interdicted, and the implication of this passage is quite directly that you think Israel should face a similar “level of international isolation and economic sanctions” as the blockaded Gaza (sorry, “Hamas”). I would hope the move would be more for Palestinians to be allowed to enjoy comparable standards of living to Israeli ones, rather than lowering everyone to the level of queueing in bread and water lines or dying of preventable diseases.
You can go back and read the conversation I had with Fahran comparing the situation in Palestine with the situation in 1990s North Korea to get my stance on this issue.
Or, tl;dr: the sanctions on North Korea are justified, the sanctions on Hamas (and the Gaza Strip of which it is the effective governing authority) are justified, and the sanctions I am proposing we implement on Israel will be justified. If a governing authority pursues a militant and aggressive foreign policy that demands an international response, that the standard-of-living of the local population might be caught as collateral damage of the economic sanctions applied is frankly the responsibility of the governing authority conducting such aggression, not the responsibility of the international community which has to figure out how to to respond to aggression when it only has access to such famously weak and uncoercive tools as economic sanctions. If governments want to hold the well-being of their own people hostage to force us to back off from responding to their acts of aggression, the response of the international community should be a resounding "lol, [expletive] off".
But all that aside, the point of the line of argument that I am pursuing here is highlighting the incredibe hypocrisy involved in Fahran thinking that we should keep supporting Israel and only apply limited measures to discourage its offensive activities, we should totally send rice to North Korea even when they keep diverting it to their offensive activities, but supporting Hamas or Hezbollah is antisemitic and terroristic and how dare you?!?!?
Maybe I should start calling Fahran an anti-democratic traitor for suggesting that aid to North Korea is a thing that should be done. It wouldn't be an accurate label, but she certainly seems quick enough to paint anyone that sympathises with Israel's enemies with the antisemitism brush and turnabout is fair play, right?
