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COMMONSENSE FROM JAPAN AFTER GAZA ENDURES 200 DAYS OF WAR
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ritten by Hikaru Kitabayashi✍️
To understand Japanese attitudes toward Palestine, let's consider the following Japanese population percentages:
Christians—approximately 1.6%
Muslims—approximately 0.18%
Judaism—approximately 0.001%
Japan is not a fertile ground for Zionism to develop and, in the last six months, Israel has done nothing to create sympathy for that ideology and attacking a Japanese in Japan as being anti-Semitic, simply for finding Israeli government sponsored genocide abhorrent, will have no effect on that person's career.
On the other hand, Japanese, by nature, are pragmatic, and with the United States being of critical importance, Japan will almost always make a show of following American policies, though it may often fall far short in the matter of implementation. Thus, Japan cut funding to UNWRA when American cut funding, but resumed funding as soon as Canada announced it was going to resume funding. Also, in the United Nations Security Council, Japan did not follow the lead of the United States. Instead, it voted for the admission of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations.
At the beginning of the War in Gaza, Hamas was always labelled as the "terrorist organization Hamas". Now Japanese never use the word terrorist. Neutrality in reporting is now at work and Israel comes off as ugly and evil. It is now common to hear Japanese privately exchanging the opinion that the world would be better off if Israel ceased existing.
Let's change tracks, though, and from a Japanese perspective, let's look in a random order, at the Middle East.
1. The Israelis must be right about smuggling going on in Rafah in tunnel networks, but the Egyptians are now largely blocking it, in order to force Israel to agree to international aid being trucked in above ground.
2. Military equipment and raw materials for military equipment production are certainly also being smuggled in
through Israel, but are unlikely to be smuggled in through Egypt. For this, criminal elements inside of Israel itself must be responsible.
3. Saudi Arabia has in the past tried to overthrow the government of Qatar and to isolate it. Thus, Qatar will continue to provide political support to Hamas as well as allow America to station troops there.
4. Egypt's economy is too fragile to consider absorbing a million to two million refugees. That it will not do so, is one thing the world should take seriously.
5. Israel can no longer fight the war alone and, even with help, doesn't have the ability to unconditionally win the war it is fighting in Gaza, the West Bank, and northern Israel.
6. The Israeli economy is a black hole.
7. The Palestinian Authority will emerge as an internationally recognized state, but its present government cannot last much longer. In the years it's been in power it's tried to win love from Israel and the West. It should have aimed at winning respect. Love without respect is meaningless.
8. Israel will probably be allowed to survive with reduced borders as an international pariah.
9. Jordan may or may not survive as a kingdom. One wrong move and its royal family will be sent packing.
10. Turkey will come out of this with less international respect, because its anti-Israeli rhetoric was not seen to match its pro-Israeli trade relations.
11. The Greater Kurdistan ambitions of the Kurdish autonomous region of Iraq will not succeed. The autonomous region in Iraq will probably continue to survive in a much weakened state.
12. The big winners will be Iran, China, Russia, Yemen, and North Korea. The big losers will be Israel, America, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Turkey. Japan, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia will remain, basically unaffected.
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