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Originally Posted by opendoor
Which is basically how it always plays out. People care when their country may get involved or when their country has some sort of influence on the outcome.
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Canada is not getting involved and has no influence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That hasn’t stopped Canadians in some quarters from protesting against Israel just as passionately as their counterparts in the U.S.
So no, I don’t buy that it’s a rational, utilitarian response to the foreign policy posture of their government. I’d wager if you polled a pro-Palestinian rally most participants wouldn’t have the faintest idea who Anthony Blinken.
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Originally Posted by opendoor
So as it applies to this conflict, yes, Westerners are obviously going to pay more attention and have more of a reaction to a conflict where the US President and Secretary of State are flying over to it to confer with one side's leadership, where the US sends aircraft carriers into the region as a means of supporting the conflict, and where there's a potential risk of the conflict spreading, than they are about a civil war that Western nations aren't even really involved in. I don't see what's remotely surprising about that. It's the same reason people care more about Ukraine than they do other random conflict; it's right on NATO's borders, so obviously it's going to get far more attention. That doesn't mean it's right, or that people shouldn't give those other conflicts much more attention, or that we shouldn't all consider the types of evils that our governments sometimes tacitly support around the world.
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What about non-Westerners? Why do you think the Palestinian conflict generates far more outrage among Muslims globally than the hundreds of thousands killed in Yemen and Myanmar?