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Gaza showdown
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: lx4 on January 21, 2009, 07:11:09 PM ---Israel doesnt want to seriously hurt their relationship with Europe and its completely dependent on America. It needs American money, weapons and support in the security council.
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I wish it was true. However as long as the pacifist media is going to be on the Hamas side, Europe will continue talking about brutality while forgetting that the champions in brutality is still Europe and it would take lot of million deaths to change that fact ;)
As for USA, I wonder how much weapons and money it can supply in the middle of a crisis. As for Security council we know that China and Russia will be neutral and USA will support Israel. UK and France's stance will depend on the bitching in Europe I guess.
lx4:
--- Quote from: Dragoon AceHigh on January 21, 2009, 07:34:15 PM ---I wish it was true. However as long as the pacifist media is going to be on the Hamas side, Europe will continue talking about brutality while forgetting that the champions in brutality is still Europe and it would take lot of million deaths to change that fact ;)
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Europe can bitch and whine and complain (while making me ashamed of being a European btw), Israel is used to it. As long as Europe doesnt do anything to harm Israel they will be fine. The thing is that Israel is a tiny little country that is dependent on exports, almost half of which are being sold to Europe. Europe could destroy Israel with economic sanctions if it wanted to. It doesnt want to, most European politicians are satisfied with scoring political points by spitting on Israel. But the longer the war drags on the more pressure there will be to reconsider trade with Israel.
Pigeon:
I saw a McDonalds in Kuwait, as well as a Starbucks and Costa.
Anyway, Israel really doesn't have anything to worry about. Their strategies thus far have worked. They just need to keep doing what they've been doing.
nates1984:
I don't think becoming increasingly militaristic is a strategy that has "worked" for Israel.
No amount of tanks and bombs will take away from the fact that it's the god damn "holy land" because at the end of the day it really does boil down to religion.
Maybe it has worked in the short term, but not in the long term.
Pigeon:
Sure it has. They haven't been invaded since what, '72?
As terrible the suicide bombers and rocket attacks are, it's significantly less bad than the full scale invasions they've faced in the past. Worst case scenario for a successful wave of suicide bombers or rockets is you have maybe 1000 people dead. Worst case scenario for a successful invasion is you, everyone you know, everyone with the same religion within 200 miles of you gets killed in an EZ-bake oven.
Israel can survive rocket attacks and suicide bombs forever. If they keep getting invaded, they'll eventually lose one. And then they're dead - all of them - permanently.
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