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You can spend hours upon hours dissecting the metaphor till you're bored, but let it be understood that the settler-colonialist project occupying Palestine is literally majority-European from Europe. The very same Europe that settled and colonized modern day Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the U.S. and so on.
With this in mind, Europe and other western nations and their citizens chiefly support their project, because the project is literally just every single one of these states in a trenchcoat.
If your only response to this fact is "Blame the government, not the people", then you need to understand that the government is not a faceless entity, but run by "people", with staunch support by people.
If your contribution to society and the contribution by your ilk from the Global North to society solely rests on parliamentarianism/electorialism, and you expect us from the Global South to "take it or leave it", then you'll have to excuse us for not taking y'all seriously.
Please consider for your own good to read more about the liberalism (not the Western definition of it) that plagues basically everyone, the Global South gets the heavier brunt end of it.
Yeah, I had a feeling I'd get this kind of response. It's the people's fault for not doing some undefined thing, liberals bad, just electoralism, etc.
Foreign policy is just so unimportant to the vast vast majority of people in the world, but I would guess this is especially the case in the modern west. It's hard enough to mobilize people against something that effects their daily lives.
This is why I specifically mentioned "those who claim to share our values". They constantly lie and obfuscate, bombarding the public through the media. Just listen to some episodes of Citations Needed to start to understand why I don't think blaming people barely scraping by is productive when they're under this propaganda firehose.
What part of it is wrong or incorrect?
Foreign policy is unimportant to the vast majority of people in the Western world, because it doesn't affect them at all so long as they the people of the Global North get their treats, in whichever way possible, even if it means subjugating the Global South to imperialism and modern-day colonialism. The Global South people are affected by foreign policy enacted by the West and cannot just choose to ignore it, in fact it is of utmost importance for the Global South to learn and understand the West's foreign policy and how it shapes their lives.... or takes it.
There is no universalizing into one "world" ideology to be had here, when it's a chiefly Western apathy is what I'm trying to get at.
If you had listened to Citations Needed or any left leaning podcast/media closely, you'd learn by now that the excuse "the candidate that I voted for lied to us, sorry bud it's the best I could do" is not tolerated or taken seriously for that matter. These contributions that amount to writing on a piece of paper are meaningless as they are teethless. It's just pure Great Man Theory'ing, a liberal ideology.
Liberalism is a death cult.
the thing they need to do is literally defined in writing around 150 years ago and their a lack of interest in foreign policy along the propaganda firehose are manifestations of this mass refusal to accept the writing.
trying to nudge the system into the right direction is the same tactic that have failed the democrats. the individual responsibility to self educate isn't easy, but it's the last chance for us to break out of the trajectory that the same writing also predicted 150 years ago.