Malaysia’s government announced Wednesday that it was imposing a ban on all Israeli owned and flagged ships, as well as any vessels headed to Israel, from docking at its ports.
Thanks for being honest and asking in good faith. So pretty much the whole history has been defined by genocides and being used as fodder for scapegoating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question … this is a pretty controversial vein of the dialogue for you to get started. You don’t have to feel one way or another but it’s an example of the modern West’s dynamics
Oh I know that. I was talking specifically about whether antisemitism affected foreign policy. Like, didn’t Western countries just persecute Jews inside their borders while not really caring about ones outside? That’s why I said “outside their borders”.
Okay gotcha. I think the missing piece here is the connection between domestic and foreign policy. Forget Jews, Holocaust, Israel, genocide, any of it, and go more basic…
Domestic policy issues like immigration in a functioning country on an average normal day, are by their nature, foreign policy. If you own a store and lock the door and say we’re closed, you’re informing the outside world of this. If I needed a loaf of bread from you, now I have to do something else… it doesn’t matter if I find a different store, switch recipes, order in… you’ve affected me. Like how in science, merely observing, is impacting any experiment, just bc you’re interacting with it through the very observation itself.
So now you’re a Eurasian country expelling your Jews as one does every few centuries. If I accept those Jews, that’s a diplomatic message to the global community that I disagree with your policy. Think about Poland accepting Ukrainians or the US sending bombs. That’s a message on our stance on Russian genocide.
Uh… What? What country fucked with Jews outside their borders except Nazi Germany?
Are you asking seriously in good faith?
Yeah. My knowledge of Jewish history isn’t the best.
Thanks for being honest and asking in good faith. So pretty much the whole history has been defined by genocides and being used as fodder for scapegoating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_question … this is a pretty controversial vein of the dialogue for you to get started. You don’t have to feel one way or another but it’s an example of the modern West’s dynamics
Oh I know that. I was talking specifically about whether antisemitism affected foreign policy. Like, didn’t Western countries just persecute Jews inside their borders while not really caring about ones outside? That’s why I said “outside their borders”.
Okay gotcha. I think the missing piece here is the connection between domestic and foreign policy. Forget Jews, Holocaust, Israel, genocide, any of it, and go more basic…
Domestic policy issues like immigration in a functioning country on an average normal day, are by their nature, foreign policy. If you own a store and lock the door and say we’re closed, you’re informing the outside world of this. If I needed a loaf of bread from you, now I have to do something else… it doesn’t matter if I find a different store, switch recipes, order in… you’ve affected me. Like how in science, merely observing, is impacting any experiment, just bc you’re interacting with it through the very observation itself.
So now you’re a Eurasian country expelling your Jews as one does every few centuries. If I accept those Jews, that’s a diplomatic message to the global community that I disagree with your policy. Think about Poland accepting Ukrainians or the US sending bombs. That’s a message on our stance on Russian genocide.
Does that help or make it more confusing?? 😬