Can you update this with a different source rather than Quds News? It's banned on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and TikTok. Say what you will about those websites but it's rare to see such unanimity.
Perhaps the reason the genocide is tolerated is that the West, unlike in earlier eras, is in structural decline and it needs to hang on to it’s strategic assets at all costs.
I agree that this is probably a factor. Everything is on shaky ground. If the US weren't run by a lunatic we might see a more coordinated condemnation of Israel, but I suspect the war in Ukraine is a major factor here, and China's ticking deadline to make an attempt on Taiwan.
The strawman is the user saying I'm defending Israel's actions, when I've done absolutely nothing of the sort. Their entire government needs to be brought to the ICC.
Why the west isn’t imposing sanctions dirrectly on the genocidal government?
I think because their governments believe the geopolitical convenience of having Israel on side outweighs the moral aspects. That's of course a psychopathic, Kissinger-esque conclusion to reach, but it isn't much different than the way the US and EU are stringing along Ukraine rather than giving them the tools they need to decisively end the Russian invasion.
But there is strong convergence with Western interests in seeing the Palestinians eliminated
I really don't think so. My impression is that the west doesn't particularly care about Palestinians -- certainly not enough to want them gone -- and would very much prefer for Israel to stop. Israel is a useful ally in the "unsinkable aircraft carrier" sense but a repeat of the 40s (or 60s, or 70s) would be bad for everyone. Israel should frankly STFU and be content with what they have.
It would be more accurate to see Israel as an imperial garrison as its purpose is serving Western imperial objectives against regional populations.
I dislike even this assessment. The accusation that Israel is a colony or garrison is, counterintuitively, imperialist and "western supremacist". I constantly see implications that they are just puppets of the US, and the same rationalisation applied to other countries in the ME or Africa, where they are implied to be not fully aware of their actions and perhaps a little bit savage. Even your point here
But I think this just strengthens the imperial analysis - Western power has successfully co-opted regional elites into maintaining the system.
is a suggestion that the poor old house of Saud can't be imperialist on its own, and all that they do they learned from Europeans. It's essentially the flip side of the White Man's Burden and I reject it completely. Arabs are perfectly able of being imperialist and to claim otherwise shows a glaring lack of historical context. Saudis have agency. So do Israelis and Syrians and Nigerians. They are not puppets of the US or Russia or China. The genocide that Israel is committing rests solely on the shoulders of Israel.
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Great - Ontario already behaves like it's the center of the universe, and now this