It's similar to how Vatican City will get posted even if there is almost no population.
Intel has 2 design centers there. Apple has a design center there. Broadcom, Qualcomm and many others.
It is not only software....
1. It was established by Britain out of the Palestinian mandate
2. Judaism is central to the history and thought of Western civilization
3. There is a large Jewish diaspora in the West, especially the United States
4. Israel is the sole Western society in the Middle East
5. Israel was geopolitically important to the US in the Cold War as part of its strategic containment of the USSR, and today in counteracting Iran's regional influence
6. The US has provided more aid to Israel than any other country
7. There is a powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States
8. Given all these ties, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza rightly attracts a lot of criticism in the West
They are one of the few world powers with nuclear capabilities, although they are not officially recognized as such. However from my understanding basically everyone on the world stage knows it is true.
It also reality really doesn't mind Iran messing up their northern neighbours, unlike what the public sentiment says
Hezbollah, and Baathists were like a present from heavens for them
Israel supports who is aligned with their regional objectives. Like when they supported Iran before the takeover. You work with what you got, there isn't big love between Israel and Egypt or Saudi Arabia and why single Israel? Everyone in the world has relationships with these 2 countries.
It's true that a strong Lebanon or Syria aren't in the best Interest of Israel military wise but at least there was someone in charge to keep the "peace" now it's chaos with Iranian backed groups working close to the border to destabilize it and Hezbollah has thousands of rockets pointing at Israel that's not in the best interest of Israel
> Hezbollah has thousands of rockets pointing at Israel
And? Not much has changed from that fact, but Hezbollah has almost removed Lebanon from the map — that what matters.
The Lebanese government let Hezbollah get the way it is by first allowing the PLO into south Lebanon bowing to Syria and having no backbone and shit military and now they suffer for it.
Do you think Israel was jealous of the Paris of the middle east and set up Hezbollah to take over?
> And? Not much has changed from that fact
Your whole argument was that Hezbollah is good for Israel, how thousands of rocket aiming at your population centers good for Israel? That's why what you wrote is bull.
You have half of middle east pointing rockets at Israel. In comparison with Hezbollah takeover effectively making Lebanon a non-country, price-benefit ratio is not simply positive, but overwhelmingly in Israel's favour.
In contrast with Syria, where the Iranian support tries to preserver the existing state, and where Israel clashed with it to the point they began aiding Syrian rebels.
They don't preserver the existing state they plan to take over and rule from a far.
> Israel clashed with it to the point they began aiding Syrian rebels
Israel assisted the rebels by giving medical aid so they won't hurt the druze population in Syria because the druze in Israel are blood relatives and enlist in the Israeli military that's a far cry from suppling weapons and intel
> overwhelmingly in Israel's favour.
You still didn't explain how.
I don't see it as positive at all.
Just saying that Israel has no problem with Iranians in Lebanon when if they mess up local establishment, but have it in Syria because there Iran is pro-existing regime.
> You still didn't explain how.
Hezbollah ruined Lebanese political establishment, and the state at the same time. Effectively, they made it a blank space on the map as it is now.
But there's a chance Putin would invite you to drink his special tea. If not you, your sources. Or that you'll feel so full of guilt for your slanderous reporting you'll spontaneously decide to jump out of a window.
Obviously reporters prefer safe and easy locations. Israel lets you be in a warzone but be in relatively little risk.
Yes. All citizens can vote. All those who can't vote are not citizens- which doesn't prevent the Israeli government from actually governing them. Since the division is along ethnic lines, this is usually called apartheid.
And all that is a partial list of factors.
> unresolved feelings from long Jewish history elsewhere
What would those be exactly? And how does reporting non stop about Israel help - or you saying it's some kind of obsession?
When people have been historically wronged, usually the moral burden is placed upon the perpetrators (and perhaps their descendants) and not the victims' descendants. Some African Americans act very badly (every population has its own criminals), but we don't ask them to 'learn lessons from slavery'. We ask white people inasmuch we ask this.
But in this case, it's only Jews that get this reply and somehow almost never the descendants of perpetrators of historical anti-Jewish atrocities. And this reply doesn't help Palestinians at all (I suspect it's strongly counterproductive), so it's not about them either.
I suspect the root of this is unresolved guilt, the unspoken argument is "see, you're as bad as we are!". Despite that the worst accusations against Israel don't come close to the scale of several historical atrocities against Jews.
1) Report on a minor issues in Israel 2) Make it "world news" 3) Escalate the tension 4) Rip those clicks.
Do you think reporting on some stone throwing or a house eviction should be the top headline in CNN? These don't remotely compare to what's going on in Africa, Yemen or east Ukraine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_depend...
Israel, on the other hand, has been giving bit of a politics show for the past what, a year or more?
If Israel stories get more clicks, then they will be on the front page. That's it.
The media regularly inflates the importance of some issues while failing to adequately cover others. Can you better articulate why you find this to be creepy?
There has been an uptick in coverage recently, but that's because of the uptick in violence and atrocities - like Israel ordering Palestinians to destroy their own homes (or pay for demolition if they don't), evicting Palestinians, Israelis expanding into Palestnian territory, the Israeli military destroying Palestinian tower blocks (resulting in numerous civilian deaths, including children), etc.*
Oh, and it's a nuclear power, and the spirtiual home of Judaism.
* I'm just giving reasons for news coverage; I'm not trying to start an ideological flame war here, and I know the Israeli government != Israelis. I also know that there is the odd rocket being fired into Israel from Palestine, so it's not a one-sided thing, but the point is that human rights atrocities being carried out with impunity by a US and UK ally is pretty awful.
I just don't see how this has anything to do with it. News should be about important and influential events happening in the world (in theory, in practice it's about getting clicks), who cares about "unique generous backing" (which you are definitely exaggerating btw), the media shouldn't really care about that when deciding what is important.
2. Recent active conflict between Israel and Palestine.
3. Netanyahu has been in power for a long time. He has struggled, and now failed, to secure a coalition for something like a year.
4. Israel likely has nuclear weapons or can quickly create nuclear weapons.
If India's PM was ousted under similar circumstances, I would not be surprised to see similar news coverage.
There is always a lot of outrage about it in the media. Very scandalous
Some kind of mess happening there 24*7. Medias like such "scandal porn"
Netanyahu was basically a political Kardashian, Trump Donald before it was cool
I know that American Jewish community tends to vote Democrat and that Democrats have a young cohort of politicians that is very vocally pro-Palestinian. So I would expect some drift. But I am not sure how to even measure it, or if someone tried to.