• Armen12@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    I love how a country is allowed to just get away with killing children and UN workers and doctors and journalists but we condemn countries that do the same thing like Russia. It makes no sense that Israel should get a free pass, all it does is expose a huge double standard

    • sqgl@beehaw.orgOP
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      2 years ago

      False equivalence.

      Russia bombed Kiev for the hell of it, not even pretending there was a military objective. Russia also is conscripting Ukrainians to fight against their fellow countrymen as cannon-fodder on the front line. It is kidnapping children into Russia.

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      2 years ago

      Isreal’s main exports are cutting-edge technology found nowhere else in the world. Russia’s main export is oil. Western and European Union countries were fine getting their oil elsewhere, but they absolutely do not want to give up advanced tech. Especially since there will always be other countries that don’t care and will continue trading anyway.

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            2 years ago

            I often hear of Bioscience “breakthroughs” from Israel which amount to nothing but hype.

            What military tech apart from Iron Dome? (which protects against crappy home made rockets)