[jazzyjackson]

Fine, not wrong, but you missed the rather heavy factor of the western powers feeling they owe a huge debt to the Jewish people for turning their boats back during the Holocaust. It's a "no one helps you til you help yourself" scenario, now that a state exists with a mission to give Jews safe refuge and self governance, they have (some of) the world's sympathy.

its not merely because of a few lobbyists and evangelicals' wacky eschatology

[ratg13]

The heavy factor is all of the spying.

At one point Israel even handled all of the wiretaps for the US.. so if a US government agency needed a wiretap, it would have to go through Israel.

Then there's the active spying..

Stuff like this: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/06/internatio...

And when they get caught, nothing ever happens

[mptest]

Can highly recommend Pegasus: a spy in your pocket about this very topic and much more journalists have to go through. terrifying stuff.

e.g. jamal kashoggi (and his partner) had it on his phone when he got murdered by SA.

[megous]

No sympathy to anyone who justifies destruction of entire cities (like this https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1920242384111055286) as self-defense. Even in my small disgusting genocide supporting country in the center of europe, things are slowly starting to change at this point.