A small price to pay to serve the interests of a certain Levantine country whose civilization is built on the [Dark Triad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad)
Not just the hivemind, Reddit has been thoroughly astroturfed for a long time now. The vast majority of large subreddits have at least 1-2 mods who stifle/amplify discourse in the service of companies, think tanks, and certain Levantine pariah nations.
That's election blathering, it's less than two months and as the Israeli (far-)right is looking for a serious defeat [1], they are trying to mobilize their respective bases.
Especially the ultraorthodox crowd is going to get hit hard, the rest of Israel is extremely pissed off at them due to their insistence on not having to serve in the military.
And let me be clear: all of those currently in power in Israel deserve a court trial and a lengthy prison term for incitement of racial hatred, and everyone in charge of the military and police a war crimes investigation.
Your degree if denialism is really impressive. You dismiss, the mass killings, the push to erase a nation, and you even dismiss representatives outright admitting and acknowledging doing it.
Where exactly do you place the bar that would lead you to say "Yes, Israel is committing genocide".
At the very least you’d expect the population being genocided to decline.
Palestinian population growth has been exponential throughout Israel’s history (if you’re one of those who claim the “genocide” started a long time ago), and even the population of Gaza has not declined after 3 years of war (reported births are still more than reported deaths).
> At the very least you’d expect the population being genocided to decline.
Imagine being a European in 1940 and claiming there’s no genocide against the Jews because "at the very least you’d expect the population being genocided to decline" (at that point "only" around 100,000 had been killed).
This is a huge detail that further complicates the picture, ASML's lithography technology heavily benefitted from United States DOE research:
> In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet. Two years later, it joined a consortium, which included Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamental research conducted by the US Department of Energy. Because the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) it operates under is funded by the US government, licensing must be approved by Congress.
> heavily benefitted from United States DOE research
Not just heavily benefitted. The entire wafer-making technology is the result of US government funding and research. There's a reason why Cymer continues to operate independently in San Diego instead of by ASML in Europe. That was mandated by the acquisition agreement. The R&D and manufacture of the EUV light sources had to remain in California. ASML in the Netherlands is just the final assembler of the machines.
There have been several spywares developed in Israel and that have been used by them and other governments against civilians, below are just a few examples. Why wouldn't you lump Israel in?
If your criterion holds for spyware merely developed in a state, then that commits you not working in the US or UK as well. Something to think about.
Putting that aside, my moral positions about Israel are rooted in the righteousness of the Jews' cause and their historical struggle. My personal self-righteousness is inadequate in comparison.
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