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Europe always supported Israel as a victim of WW2, this support has been misguided for decades IMO.
At least it is finally dawning on many European political leaders that we cannot continue to support Israel, because their crimes cannot be defended by "the other side is just as bad" anymore. Europe is actually moving towards morality in general, not against it.
Regarding Afghanistan that was an FN mandated operation supported by most countries in the world. And it had some pretty good reasons behind it.
But in hindsight the operation was futile, and the atrocious religiously fundamental regime that we hoped to replace with something better is back. Oppressing everybody especially women based on fanatic religious beliefs. IDK why you call it Taliban vs. Israel, because AFAIK it was originally Taliban vs. USA.
So no Europe does not only respect international law when it's convenient. Which is also why from day 1, USA was not allowed to use many European bases for their attack on Iran.
European countries have been following USA into questionable endeavors like the Iraq war, but already back then, many European countries were unwilling to help USA, because the operation was "questionable".
And as it turned out, the intelligence that allegedly justified the action, turned out to be false. Which to many of us was no surprise. But USA fooled many governments. My own government was investigated for the issue, and the conclusion was that they did the right thing, because USA was crucial for our defense!
So yes that part is sick. We are not perfect, but we are trying to improve. And Iraq was themselves an aggressor, so they weren't exactly innocent.
European countries bombed Sarajevo, against UN rulings not to intervene into the war.
European countries attacked and bombed Libya and allowed the murder of Gaddafi.
European countries attacked Syria with no UN authorization.
European countries currently sell weapons to Israel, not against international law but quite morally difficult to support.
European countries pay Libya and turkey to keep migrants in detention centers and not allow them into the EU.
In general not too bad for that many countries, but definitely not completely free from guilt.
All your examples are either false or interventions to prevent genocide.
Most if not all European countries have stopped selling weapons to Israel. Israel is no longer seen in Europe in general as a country it can be morally defended to support.
And how the fuck can you blame Europe when Arab countries continue to support Israel and USA?
Europe has near zero support for Israel, compared to UAE and Saudi Arabia that continue to support USA and Israel.
Again Europe is actually trying to stand on the side of international law, and none of the examples you use show otherwise.
You are being dishonest and you are propagandizing against the interest of truth.
Wait a moment..... Didn't Europe send forces during the US invasion of lran ??🤔🤔🤔
WTF? how can you be so uninformed? Iran hasn't even been invaded!!!
Last time Iran was invaded it was by Iraq, are you going to blame Europe for that?
The invasion of Afghanistan only later became a UN operation, after the invasion began. And Iraq was the aggressor in the 80s not 2003.
I'm not encouraging, defending, or supporting the Taliban in any way. It was just the first example that came to mind. Hell the Iraq invasion would've made a better example as that had nothing to do with the UN.
And I'm not saying there isn't a divide in Europe on Israel either.
But the countries in Europe for the most part have taken a stance to support Israel (examples being UK, FRANCE, and Germany) while also leading a military operation on a sovereign country.
There are many other examples and more the further back in time you're willing to go. The French campaign in Algeria for instance.
Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. But you point is true.
I agree, I was extremely mad at my government for falling for the American lies and joining USA in that.
This is sadly true, and the times I've heard that Israel is a democracy, as if that is an excuse. Why would a democracy have more rights to invade other countries? I am all for democracy, and I believe democracy is by far the best system of governance we have. But that doesn't mean we have a right to break international law, or help other countries when they do so.
That is consistent with my point that Europe has generally improved to respect the rights of other countries more. Israel is a sore spot in that regard, other examples since WW2 were typically driven by USA, like instating the Shah in Iran and destroy their democracy. There is no reasonable basis for the way the west has treated Iran after they rebelled against the Shah. Except the insane immorality of having an official government death warrant on Salman Rushdie. But that has never been an argument against any of the sanctions or threats against Iran.
Iraq attacked Iran at the USA's behest in 1980
But that was never in any way used as an argument against Iraq, only the Kuwait invasion was. The invasion of Iran was politically irrelevant in the west.
Okay.... So what do you think of lndia as a democracy ??🤔🤔
I do concede the point that they've improved. Though there do remain other examples such as Lybia, Saudi campaign support against Yemen, and how the French have conducted themselves in the Sahel
Europe has nothing to do with Yemen on either side. I also don't see why Libya is relevant, they've been a fucked up country for decades internally, with civil war and crazy leaders like Gaddafi. Sahel is a huge belt in Africa, and I have no idea what you mean with France behaving badly there lately?
Sorry but here you lost me completely?!
Ignorance doesn't mean this didn't happen
Yemen Libya Sahel
That's just wrong, Libya was in a civil war as I described, and Europe tried to go in to stabilize the situation. Inability to solve the problem of another country has nothing to do with colonialism or not respecting the sovereignty of that country. It was a humanitarian crisis that Europe tried to end.
This is not ignorance on my part, I even mentioned this situation, it is a complete abuse of a crisis to make a part that tried to help look bad.
Shame on you. 😡
We were allies of Gaddafi, we broke our pact, attacked him and allowed his murder. He may not have been the best ruler, but the country was stable. Look at Libya now and tell me whether they are doing better than before.
They were not in civil war; they had protests and the government had strongly repressed the protests killing people. Protestants formed and uprising and there intervened EU countries.
This was not against international law, but we did attack an ally of ours, which does not speak very well about the reliability of European countries.
Not in 2011 it wasn't. And the assassination of Gadaffi was 100% on USA.
Israel didn't exist as a state until after WW2 was over. Europe supported Israel because they equated Israel with the Jews, based on the fallacy that it's the natural order of things for every ethnicity to have its own nation state and the natural home for all Jews is Israel; and based on the prevalent European colonialist view that this nation-state rule didn't apply to Arabs or Africans.
No Israel was created because the world felt guilty about what happened to the Jews in WW2.
I would think that would be pretty obvious.
What's your definition of the world ??🤔🤔🤔