• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    Good. Israel’s people won’t ever demand reforms, if they don’t suffer for the evils they have supported.

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      2 hours ago

      How often is it that people demand reforms versus become galvanized in support of ‘their team’?

      ‘Rally behind the flag’ is the usual popular reaction, where any calls for reform that might have happened become completely unacceptable in popular culture.

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        1 hour ago

        Considering what was already happening to Gaza and Palestine, plus the egging on of the USA into war against Iran, I think Israel was already fully galvanized to make war. Israel up to this point has suffered no consequences for their actions, so there wasn’t real pressure to change things. Plus, they were taking territory from others and were enriching their populations - which is pretty popularizing by default.

        Iran, on the other hand, wasn’t gaining new territories to grease the palms of their citizens. That gave much stronger incentives for their population to be opposed to their leadership, up until they got bombed by “freedom”.

        Different nations, different circumstances.