I tend to lean more pro-Israel than I think the average liberal bluesky user is - but even I take the position that "Israel had the right to do something but it did not have the right to do _this_."
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If Israel repelled the initial attack, re-ran Cast Lead, and moved on to having Mossad kill Hamas leaders in Qatar and Turkey, no one in America would even be talking about it still.
They really fucked themselves on this one because they’ve broken the bipartisan consensus on Israel to such a degree elected democrats feel safe criticizing Biden and Blinken waiving congressional review. Israel suffered a strategic defeat as soon as they went in.
My concern with this is that Israel has slowly clamped down for years - slowly testing what they can get away with with some measure of plausible deniability aimed toward that consensus. If it is broken, then Israel could stop depending on continued support and need to make this the last engagement.
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