Western diplomats are walking an impossible tightrope with Israel | Financial Times
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Both European and American officials are attempting to juggle support with calls for restraint

“We may be about to see massive ethnic cleansing,” says one EU diplomat. Another senior Brussels official says that the EU should already have lined up with the UN secretary-general’s calls for Israel to respect international humanitarian law.

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  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    1 year ago

    Tightrope? They are framing ethnic cleansing and genocide as self-defense.

    “Our fear is that we’ll pay a heavy price in the global south because of this conflict,” says one EU official.

    inshallah

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Ah man people of the world aren't gonna like it when we do an open genocide in front of the world to see. Ah, well, nevertheless. Commence with the genocide.

  • TylerDurdenJunior@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    And at the same time western diplomats are being told to not talk about de escalation

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-internal-emails-gaza-israel_n_65296395e4b0a304ff6ff95d?ykm=

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    “We may be about to see massive ethnic cleansing,” says one EU diplomat.

    Let's consider the moral dilemma - shall we? It's not exactly the trolley problem.

    1. If you follow the official Israeli line - it's good for your career but you are a turd.

    or

    1. If tell the truth - it's bad (if not horrible) for your career as a diplomat but you are righteous. You can always get a job doing something else.

     

    Nearly all of them will do #1.