Starlord
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The way I see it that despite the public outcry, we have seen ZERO effects of it on ground, the war is almost in its 10 months and yet the bombing is still going, Israel has expanded its operations to West Bank which is still seen by large European countries as Palestinian lands, public support for Palestine is meaningless, you can't and wont be able to do anything with the public support when there are no Palestinians left in the land, Israel will make sure that Gaza remains a ruin for a long time, even will stop the rebuilding process and you bet America will make sure that it never happen. Now their eyes are on west bank as they launch a massive Attack on them, and no one dare to stop them because of USA. Because America has made it clear that they will level the region or any country if it comes to Israel, American Foreign policy and Govt is acting like the " Karen Mother " who's spoiled brat of a son/daughter is drunk driving killing people and she is using her power/state/influence to support her child.It was late at night my time when I posted that and I didn't elaborate.
Yes, really, Israel has lost Europe on a public level and Israelis know that and they even say so if you care to visit various English language Israeli sites! And that is not a surprise given the growing global awareness and diminishing memories of the European guilt over the Holocaust. I follow Comments to various news outlets--German, French--and look at common people's perspective more than the official positions or even articles/editorials and the Israeli losses is an unmistakable conclusion I have drawn.
The govts of Europe are a different matter. They are essentially American vassals. But even there Spain, Norway and Ireland and even some others have broken some taboos; officially Israelis are irate about those countries.
The level of antipathy toward Israel is increasing in Europe. But, as @Starlord says: Israelis don't really care as long as they have the Americans in their pocket.
I do read some European news outlets and even Israeli Articles but again they don't matter, as Bassam said few months back despite killing 150k people in Gaza, 20k+ kids, and countless war crimes, if tomorrow Israel declare cease-fire and end of War, they will be hailed as " Peace loving people/nation " and entire western media/people/social media will get in line, and for all that trauma that Gaza'ns face if anyone again fight back or fire a rocket towards Israel, then we will all be at square one from where it all started, Israel can kill , discriminate, brutalize , subjugate , R@pe , torture Palestinians but the moment a stone is thrown at them as resistance all hell break loose in WEST.
I admire those street protests and all, specially from the young students from US universities who have put their careers in jeopardy for Palestinian cause but nothing matters in the end, just look at recent changes in US election campaigns, Biden was feeling the heat/pressure from the youths/Liberals/democrat voters so they replace him with Kamala who is no less of a lunatic and scum than Biden, she is taking the same stance as Biden, probably even worse. For her as a first black/women President of America she has to bow to the powerful lobbies such as a AIPAC or else she ain't becoming the president. All that young " undecided " voters are flocking to Kamala because of her liberal stance on Abortions, LGBTQ, and other things so now slowly the people who were not going to vote for Biden are now back in Democrats pockets, For Israel nothing changes, weather its Biden or Kamala or Trump, they control everything from Pentagon to white House, from Senate to Congress and no amount of Street protests or tiktoks will make a dent or stop USA weapon shipments to Israel, I bet American Govt knows that Israel is a Apartheid state, committing war crimes and what they are doing to Palestinians are wrong, but they will not utter a word or will dare go against that, if your powerful is scared and can't do jack, then the kids on streets won't make a change.





