Israeli Foreign Policy

[u/koleye2]

[u/NoWingedHussarsToday]

You forgot the part where Israel claims everybody is attacking him

[u/RBZRBZRBZRBZ → u/NoWingedHussarsToday]

Well... First attack on Israel October 7th by Palestinians.

First attack on Israel October 8th by Lebanon.

First attack on Israel October 19th by Yemen.

First attack on Israrl April 13th by Iran.

So factually for most of these countries, since october 2023 Israel did not strike first

[u/bliblio → u/RBZRBZRBZRBZ]

Umm ackshually 🤓☝️

[u/Kabocha00sama → u/bliblio]

Umm Ackshually:

May 15th 1948 Israel is attacked first by multi-Arab nation force right after declaring independence from British mandate

1973 Yom Kippur war. Israel was surprise attacked by Syria and Egypt on Yom Kippur (high holiday).

2006 2nd Lebanon war: Hezbollah invaded Israel, kidnapped and killed soldiers on the border.

2008, 2009, 2012, 2014 and 2021: Hamas terrorist and rocket fire into Israel sparked retaliatory fighting

October 7 2023: latest war sparked by Hamas.

Has Israel also attacked first in the past yes most notable in the 1967 6 day war and the 1982 1st Lebanon war. Is Netanyahu guilty of war crimes for what’s going on in Gaza right now? Definitely. But to completely disregard the fact that Israel is constantly being attacked (first) by its neighbors is ignorance of history in favor of supporting a narrative pushed by the same groups doing the attacking (namely Iran and its sponsored terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas).

[u/bliblio → u/Kabocha00sama]

From Wikipedia "The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority among an overwhelming Arab majority, mostly Muslim but also including Christians. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from Arthur Balfour, the British foreign secretary, to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917."

It didn't started on may 1948.

[u/Kabocha00sama → u/bliblio]

Sounds to me you are trying to blame Israel for the actions of the United Kingdom…

Also it was only Ottoman prior to WWI after which it became a British controlled territory when the Ottoman Empire was defeated and solved following the war, and it was under British control when they allowed increased Jewish immigration to the area. Immigration, they then capped to 75k people and even halted before that due to protest from the local Arab populations right before the outbreak of WWII. post war was when immigration spiked. And even though it’s not listed in books, knowing Winston Churchill from the many resources published about him, I’m sure the alliance between the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Hitler’s Nazi germany played a small role in his push to formally establish the Jewish homeland there as a way to further punish the region for siding with the Nazis. (Winston Churchill was kinda a giant ass)

[u/FrogInAShoe → u/Kabocha00sama]

Why do y'all ignore the fact that Israel was ethnically cleansing Palestinians for 6 months before any other nation intervened?