I largely agree with you but I want to point to a small issue with terminology: what does “supporting Palestine” mean here?
I think it’s both vague (do you mean a current entity? A future state? Something else? And what does supporting it mean?) and unnecessary (in my view strongly objecting to what Israel’s doing in Gaza and in the West Bank is consistent with most political views other than those who for some reason put extremely low value on the lives of Palestinians compared to Israelis).
Mmm, good point. In the paragraph I was implicitly trying to talk about supporting material changes to the Gaza conflict specifically and the military occupation and forced settlements of Gaza and the West Bank broadly (i.e. not sending offensive military aid to Israel; as opposed to recognition of a Palestinian state represented by the PLO at the U.N.). In general my point was to highlight the tension between:
In the U.S., U.K., Australia, (and likely other countries I’m less familiar with), the two largest parties both support continuation of direct military support for Israel’s offensive capabilities (including via providing maintenance and support through the F-35 programme). Opposing this generally gets you directly removed from the party, or ostracised in a way that hurts people’s political careers (although, I’ll note this situation is changing rapidly as starvation kicks in).
There is plurality (U.S., 2024), and otherwise broad public support for directly ending or reducing military aid to Israel (U.K.) in Western countries.
I largely agree with you but I want to point to a small issue with terminology: what does “supporting Palestine” mean here?
I think it’s both vague (do you mean a current entity? A future state? Something else? And what does supporting it mean?) and unnecessary (in my view strongly objecting to what Israel’s doing in Gaza and in the West Bank is consistent with most political views other than those who for some reason put extremely low value on the lives of Palestinians compared to Israelis).
Mmm, good point. In the paragraph I was implicitly trying to talk about supporting material changes to the Gaza conflict specifically and the military occupation and forced settlements of Gaza and the West Bank broadly (i.e. not sending offensive military aid to Israel; as opposed to recognition of a Palestinian state represented by the PLO at the U.N.). In general my point was to highlight the tension between:
In the U.S., U.K., Australia, (and likely other countries I’m less familiar with), the two largest parties both support continuation of direct military support for Israel’s offensive capabilities (including via providing maintenance and support through the F-35 programme). Opposing this generally gets you directly removed from the party, or ostracised in a way that hurts people’s political careers (although, I’ll note this situation is changing rapidly as starvation kicks in).
There is plurality (U.S., 2024), and otherwise broad public support for directly ending or reducing military aid to Israel (U.K.) in Western countries.