Facts About Palestine: Why Do Most Countries Stand With Israel, Rather Than Fully Supporting An Independent Palestinian State?
Emotion-free political analysis
It isn’t a moral position to stand with Israel. It is realpolitik.
Realpolitik is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises. In this sense, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of pragmatism and realism and It is often simply referred to as pragmatism in politics.
According to Kevin Douglas, at the end of the day, people don’t throw their support behind countries out of their sympathy for the people living there.
In other words, no one should necessarily support the government of Sudan simply because they feel bad for what the people of Sudan are going through. That would lead to all sorts of bizarre conclusions and it would lead you to support the very governments that are causing people to be oppressed.
This is precisely what happens when people assume that you must support Hamas and oppose Israel in this war if you are sympathetic to the suffering of the…
