Led by Defense Minister Israel Katz and IMOD Director General Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram, the effort to expand Israel’s defense industrial base and accelerate production rates across Israeli defense industries remains ongoing. The air and sea bridge serves as a critical component in this effort, strengthening operational continuity, supporting the full range of IDF needs, and enhancing readiness and stockpiles.
The air and sea bridge, which has been running continuously throughout the campaign, is led by the IMOD Defense Procurement Directorate (DPD), through its International Shipping Division, the IMOD Missions to the United States and Germany, and the IDF’s Planning Directorate. The Israel Airports Authority and the Israel Civil Aviation Authority are also partners in the operation.
I do not believe Israel will accept peace from here on out unless we geopolitically force Israel too, at least not until the region has been utterly engulfed in war.
Yes but compare polling on aspects around the Iran War or the Gaza Genocide for that matter and though you will find the US and Israel governments in lockstep about the subject in question you will find that by and large these foreign policy choices are not reflective of the beliefs of the average person in the US. To put it another way, the government of Israel largely reflects the value system of its society in this moment, whereas the same cannot even be remotely said of the US government and the society it claims to represent the desires of.
The Gaza Genocide has popular support in Israel, there functionally is no political opposition party running on a more humane or progressive change to the madness. The same can be said about the party structures of the GOP and DNC, there is bipartisan support (or was before genuine antisemitism exploded on the right) for the Gaza Genocide. The US people on the otherhand are pissed as hell about it and want creeps to stop attacking Ms Rachel for having empathy for children and throwing mud on Judaism by conflating it with Zionism.
I don’t say this to permanently condemn Israeli society but to point out how a society can become radicalized into desiring ethnic cleansing and how we must grapple with the way that is a direct result of geopolitics much of the world has been involved in, in some way or another, though the US is by far and away the most complicit next to Israel itself in this horrid offense against the value of human life. The Arab powers deserve some blame for letting this get out of hand, so does Europe. There is plenty to go around without risking drawing the bulk of the blame off of Israel and the US.
We are all in danger if we let the fundamentalist, rightwing extremists in our societies call the shots here, the world has not been this geopolitically fragile in decades.
Obviously. I was referring to a subset of the Israeli population.
I do not believe this holds in general for nations around the world, just like with capitalism, I do not believe in the fundamental idea that the market responds to consumer needs and wants, but rather control those needs and wants in a top down fashion- much like governments don’t reflect as much as dictate the ideological path and if you will cultural myth of a nation.
I was too hasty in replying.
Agreed, I think that is what I was kind of alluding to in my previous reply. The leadership dictates. They own the media, the means of information as it were, if not directly then through other means and surreptitiously or informally. So what can even be believed?
I have felt a serious lack of reliable news coming out of and in relation to Iran since the war started, different from what I have seen in other conflicts. There is very serious information blackout around what is really going on on the ground.
Again, I am not really making any point, just conversing on the topic because I want to talk to others about their feelings and thoughts about what is going on, media isn’t providing shit.
The media desperately wants this to be a religious war, on all sides it seems. I am not sure the rest of the world looking on understands that and it worries me.
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My only real gripe with what you have said is be careful to acknowledge that human rights are a global intersectional movement of convergent evolution. Genuinely free societies in history are like flowers, their pollen is distributed by thinkers and philosophers who wing from one context to the next across vast cultural, spatial and temporal divides. Even when everything is pavement there are still the necessary cracks for the stories to continue to spring until we get them right.
I hope we continue to strive towards truly valuing human rights in “The West” however we may define “The West” in a context, but there are many long histories and cultures with long traditions of understanding human rights in their own way that are equivalent on the important bits.
This polyphony of histories are deeply hypocritical, as are our histories, no matter we can still chart a genuine goodness through them as wide as the desires of most regular people are kind in their simplicity the world over as surely as we are all the same species.
May we learn from the best bits from all over the world and push the needle towards freedom.
To be clear I don’t mean to assume you disagree with this I just want to emphasize the point.