
Yea because we didn’t directly fund a genocide and see Saudi hold right to rape prisoner protests, or use white phosphorus on civilians, or repeatedly break ceasefire agreements, or repeatedly violating international law, or continue to build recognized illegal settlements in land that isn’t even theirs (West Bank), or have an actual blatant apartheid system that people deny exists
So maybe I personally don’t know what apartheid is. You know who does though? South Africa, who brought forward a case to the ICJ about Israel committing a genocide in Palestine. If THE apartheid country is saying you’re doing something wrong, you’re definitely doing something wrong. Also that’s like saying Canadians deserve to be treated like second class citizens, have all of their water and imports controlled by the US, and can at any time be subject to violent action by the US military
Except they don’t actually have full legal equality in practice… and those millions of other Palestinians live de facto in Israel. For all intents and purposes the West Bank is (illegal held) Israeli territory. Millions of Palestinians in the West Bank live under Israel with zero rights.
The Palestinians did have their own country. However in the 1930s the British came and decided that their country would actually be a great place to start up their DIY ethnocentric Jewish Zionist state. So in 1948 they decided they were going to ethnically cleanse these Palestinians in an event that is known as the Nakba (catastrophe). However, there were still some Palestinians left on this land
Ik this is unrelated but I think we glossed over “we didn’t…see Saudi…repeatedly violating international law”. There’s a humanitarian crisis in Yemen because of their war crimes, they killed a journalist, and spied on his wife (using Israeli software, so it’s not like Israel was good there either)
I already didn’t like Saudi because the way they treat immigrant workers and have capitalized one of the largest religious obligations for Muslims but you’re right I was unaware they had violated international law and committed war crimes. Still though wasn’t done on our dime with our weapons and our tax dollars that could have gone literally anywhere else