• ours@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Your analogy doesn’t fit and ignores the particularities of the Palestine/Israel situation.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      2 years ago

      The part where significant trade is blocked, the land dispute part, the viewed as hostile nation part, the part about attempting regime change, and the part about trying to prevent refugees from coming in all seem pretty similar. The only thing missing is an actual war…

      • Womble@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        It’s vastly different, even at the height of the Cuban missile crisis the US wasn’t blockading Cuba to prevent food and medicine getting in.