• ms.lane@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Actually, it’s pretty important they are recognised.

      Right now, Israel is de jure attacking ‘nobody’, obviously from a de facto pov, they are attacking the two ‘states/cantons/provinces’ of Palestine, but that isn’t a recognised country.

      Recognizing Palestine as a sovereign nation is incredibly important.

      Sanctions against Israel are a lot easier to legislate when they’re attacking a recognised country (and should be effective unlike Russian danctions, as Israel doesn’t have Xi to lean on for support, their support base IS the west)

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        Yeah but they’re usually not recognizing any territory with it.

        Sanctions against Israel are already incredibly easy to legislate. Western countries simply refuse to do so.

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        3 days ago

        as Israel doesn’t have Xi to lean on for support

        yea, israel only has the unconditional support of the worlds largest and most influent economy, ruled by a guy who would die before sanctioning genocide…

        not sure i see your point

        • ms.lane@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          The west is more than USA.

          Taco won’t sanction Israel, no. But that doesn’t mean the rest of us shouldn’t.

      • mrdown@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Israel is comitting a genocide, a conditional state recognition stripping even more right from palestinians has no wffect on how easy it is to sanction israel