I imagine their dermatologists are swamped with PR people who are facepalming so hard it actually ripped major patches of their face off.
For most of the last 75 years they could at least say “ooh, look, democracy”, “we’re far more westernized than our enemies”, “outpost for repressed diaspora” and “we made economic development out of nothing, what ever got built when it was Palestine” and it was enough to nerf most Western complaints. If they kept a low profile, they could slow-motion a genocide and get away with it. They had mastered a delicate ballet.
Thry got greedy, figuring they could leverage October 7th into a license for a full scale territory grab, and now they’re in full crackhead-with-a-Kalishnikov mode.
I imagine their dermatologists are swamped with PR people who are facepalming so hard it actually ripped major patches of their face off.
For most of the last 75 years they could at least say “ooh, look, democracy”, “we’re far more westernized than our enemies”, “outpost for repressed diaspora” and “we made economic development out of nothing, what ever got built when it was Palestine” and it was enough to nerf most Western complaints. If they kept a low profile, they could slow-motion a genocide and get away with it. They had mastered a delicate ballet.
Thry got greedy, figuring they could leverage October 7th into a license for a full scale territory grab, and now they’re in full crackhead-with-a-Kalishnikov mode.