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submitted 5 months ago by baggins@lemmy.ca to c/eli5@lemmy.world

When I was in school we were taught genocide is a crime against humanity, now the USA and other countries act like Israel has blackmail material on all their leaders. What causes so many countries to be supporting them like this?

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[-] doingthestuff@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Jews have already been the victims of the world's most prominent recent genocide. Palestinians elected a terrorist organization to be their government and one of Hamas' stated goals is the eradication of Israel. Which is what they were trying to do a year ago in October when this recent conflict started. Israel's response went hard, I can't blame them . But they keep going harder and harder and now we have two bad guys, not one.

[-] baggins@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

That wasn't the question

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