Malaysia’s government announced Wednesday that it was imposing a ban on all Israeli owned and flagged ships, as well as any vessels headed to Israel, from docking at its ports.
Okay gotcha. I think the missing piece here is the connection between domestic and foreign policy. Forget Jews, Holocaust, Israel, genocide, any of it, and go more basic…
Domestic policy issues like immigration in a functioning country on an average normal day, are by their nature, foreign policy. If you own a store and lock the door and say we’re closed, you’re informing the outside world of this. If I needed a loaf of bread from you, now I have to do something else… it doesn’t matter if I find a different store, switch recipes, order in… you’ve affected me. Like how in science, merely observing, is impacting any experiment, just bc you’re interacting with it through the very observation itself.
So now you’re a Eurasian country expelling your Jews as one does every few centuries. If I accept those Jews, that’s a diplomatic message to the global community that I disagree with your policy. Think about Poland accepting Ukrainians or the US sending bombs. That’s a message on our stance on Russian genocide.
Okay gotcha. I think the missing piece here is the connection between domestic and foreign policy. Forget Jews, Holocaust, Israel, genocide, any of it, and go more basic…
Domestic policy issues like immigration in a functioning country on an average normal day, are by their nature, foreign policy. If you own a store and lock the door and say we’re closed, you’re informing the outside world of this. If I needed a loaf of bread from you, now I have to do something else… it doesn’t matter if I find a different store, switch recipes, order in… you’ve affected me. Like how in science, merely observing, is impacting any experiment, just bc you’re interacting with it through the very observation itself.
So now you’re a Eurasian country expelling your Jews as one does every few centuries. If I accept those Jews, that’s a diplomatic message to the global community that I disagree with your policy. Think about Poland accepting Ukrainians or the US sending bombs. That’s a message on our stance on Russian genocide.
Does that help or make it more confusing?? 😬