I’m starting to think what if I’m wrong and Israel just gets away with this. I don’t even know how to manage living in that reality. I’d lose what little trust I have left in this world to be a decent place.
More people in "The West" are seeing Israel for what it is than ever before. Even if Israel is able to weather this self inflicted storm I don't see it going back to pre 10/7 status. There's been a seismic shift, I don't know how else to explain it. I remember waking up 10/8 and hearing the news. I was gobsmacked, dunno how else to describe what I felt. The one thing I knew for sure is that this is going to bring about significant repercussions.
It's fukking crazy to see in real time how tied to the hip the U.S. and Israel are. It's so obviously to the detriment of the U.S. yet the path is still followed. And to bring it back to what you just said, yeah... my mental health is weathered by this as well.
U.S. foreign policy has been a death machine visiting far off corners of the Earth post WW2. The more I learn about it the angrier I tend to get knowing that these crimes were committed in the name of U.S. citizens. Done with taxpayer dollars. I want my tax dollars to put homeless people in homes. I want my tax dollars to educate the masses. I want my tax dollars to provide healthcare. I don't want my tax dollars to provide state of the art weapons to the apartheid state of Israel to commit genocide. I don't want my tax dollars funding the overthrow of democratically elected governments in Central/South America and then listen to politicians wonder why people are leaving those countries to come to the U.S...
I think we are living through the second death of colonialism. Perhaps death isn't the correct word. Amputation may be a better suited. Post WW2 colonialism took a hit superficially but not really. It was like it lost it's left hand but everything else was still in place. If Israel falls that's gonna be more like loosing an eye and right hand.