Basically every country, for the most part, wants to keep regular relations going with every other country. Doesn’t mean they agree with each other or really even engage in trade. They want to remain friendly and have open communications channels. Severing ties in this way means that there is no possible normal interactions between them again.
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Good. Only ~215 countries to go. No one should have normal interactions with Israel or anyone who supports Israel.
Communication breakdowns and bargaining friction is how wars start.
Being able to talk to a government is a far cry from supporting it or agreeing with it. Even if you dislike Israel, you should want there to be diplomatic relations - that is how other countries can exert influence and attempt to steer them off more radical courses, after all.
Case in point - if the West had no diplomacy with them, then the opening of the border crossing into Egypt would never have happened.
Counter example: America doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
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I agree. Having no diplomatic communications at all is a bad idea especially during times of crisis. Regardless of your feelings of the behaviour of a state, the phone line should always exist for governments to speak to each other. Whether we’re talking about Israel or Iran or Russia or North Korea or whatever. When your own citizens need help, or a crisis is ongoing, or a natural disaster occurs, or whatever, you want someone on the other end to pick up the phone.
Good for Bolivia 👍
Hopefully they stick with it this time
Depends on how bad the US wants that lithium.
You mean our lithium?
Sincerely,
The White House
Freedom Lithium^tm
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Clearly this is the work of Hamas
How can Hamas do this
I'm 90% sure it was sarcasm.
No it was Hamas
My respond is 150% sarcasm, stay tune for more of "How can Hamas do this".
HOW CAN SHE SLAP
Take my upvote
Bravo
It was, you won the news quiz! Double high fives for awareness and kindness to our fellow fediverse friend.
Damn! He Uno-Reversed us both!
That's what an AI would say!
Paragliders I think
Everybody gangster until Hamas paraglide into Bolivia's DM.
If you add a /s to indicate sarcasm you will shine more :)
They never did properly renew them after 2009 though, since the reasons for moving to minimal levels never went away, current events kinda just exemplifying why Bolivia never felt the desire to renew them.
Is this mostly symbolic? I wasn't aware these countries had anything to do with each other.
Particularly not after Cast Lead in 2009 when Bolivia broke off relations. Israel hasn't really shown any reason for Bolivia to want to renew them since either.
Yes and no. We live in a global world and generally all countries are seen as "equal" when it comes to international relations. So when a country specifically severs ties with another, it creates friction, normally the rest of the world can provide proxy relations, i.e. Qatar with Iran, or Turkey or Britain/Canada with Cuba or whatever. But if multiple countries stop recognizing another countries sovereignty, that can cause a lot of complications with say citizens of that country traveling and having relations.
So even if Bolivia doesn't deal with Israel directly, if there is an Israeli business conducting commerce within Bolivia, suddenly it becomes a lot more complicated if there is any kind of financial dispute, or some kind of international incident involving a country that Bolivia doesn't have relations with.
Basically the Israeli company is exposed to a lot more risk then they would be otherwise.
Our west government, EU institutions are probably bugged and backdoor-ed to hell. I work in the field and the number of rightpasses, access that some isreali companies have, is intriguing, to say the least.
anyway, time to treat them as normal person and get accounted for their action!
I wish Arab and Muslim countries with relations with the settler colony were as honourable as Bolivia
How can it be that Muslim/Arab countries talk so much about Israel, yet it was South Africa who went to ICJ.
I believe even though the Arab/Muslim people care about Palestinian people, but Arab/Muslim politicians don't. They don't give a fuck, as Israel also don't give a fuck.
PS: Free Palestinians!
All I know is we need better leaders but the means to achieve that are mostly violent and the current governments are willing to be very violent to protect themselves
The first of many hopefully
It begins.
I'm afraid that most States are addicted to the cyber mercenary services from Israeli corporations (eg NSO Group), and they would be unlikely to issue sanctions against them because they're unwilling to loose tools like Pegasus.
Glad to hear that Bolivia and Colombia are on the right side of history but I doubt Argentina or most countries in Europe would join.