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Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support its decision to ramp up military pressure against Hezbollah — even as the Biden administration publicly urged the Israeli government in recent weeks to curtail its strikes, according to American and Israeli officials.

Presidential adviser Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, told top Israeli officials in recent weeks that the U.S. agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s broad strategy to shift Israel’s military focus to the north against Hezbollah in order to convince the group to engage in diplomatic talks to end the conflict, the officials told POLITICO.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not disagreeing with you: both wars are/were unjustified. I'm speaking more to the difference in intent that's on display. Nobody in the US ever intended to drive all the Iraqi people out, move white Americans in and make it the 51st state. That kind of ethnic cleansing is clearly Israel's intent with Gaza, and seemingly with Lebanon.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nobody in the US ever intended to drive all the Iraqi people out

De-Ba'athification was intended to remove Iraqis from positions of power. And, to a certain extent, whole populations in the Sunni Triangle were being forced off the most valuable plots of oil producing territory.

Similarly, in Afghanistan, Americans built up these Green Zone territories where native Afghans were not welcome.

We never got to the point where we could just start homesteading enormous tracks of territory for European or American migrants. But that wasn't for lack of trying. It was because civilians weren't desperate enough to try and stake claims in the middle of an active insurgency.

That kind of ethnic cleansing is clearly Israel’s intent

Israel is much smaller than Iraq. And they have a large community of settlers ready to risk their lives for a piece of someone else's land. Even then, it has taken them decades to reach this point.

You can find large American expat communities in Mexico, Japan, Germany, Korea, Honduras and El Salvador... Anywhere we've sent soldiers in the last century really.

The Israelis just happen to be more genocidal than our proxies in Okanawa or Taipei