• @SuperIce@lemmy.world
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    919 months ago

    Because the US provides tons of money and weapons to Israel, which are supposed to be used for self-defense but are now being used to mass murder Palestinians.

    • @Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      This, plus the fact that the US refuses to be even slightly critical of Israel, whether media or state.

      • @ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
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        89 months ago

        Israel has a fascist stranglehold over United States domestic policy. It is illegal to boycott the state of Israel. They spend millions of the dollars we support them with to interfere with domestic US politics. The state of Israel is an enemy of the American people.

        • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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          09 months ago

          I’ve been wondering why the US supports Israel so much considering it doesn’t do much for anyone else outside of Western Europe if there isn’t a secondary gain. Do you have any readings on these claims?

          • @ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
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            159 months ago

            Not handy tonight, I am just very engaged with electoral politics and this is the conclusion I’ve reached after earning a degree in political science followed by 10 years of observations.

            I wrote this comment in two sittings because I have too many responsibilities. Start with the wikipedia page for history of Israel. The unspoken answer to why the US supports Israel so much despite the lack of secondary gains is largely a consequence of Allied strategy going back to world war 1, but most of the geopolitical world except for the far east played a role in what Israel is today.

            It is critically important to remember a few things.

            1. that the anti Jewish progroms in the long lead up to the Holocaust first reached critical mass in the old Russian empire.

            2. the Soviets betrayed Hitler eventually but they started WW2 on the side of the Reich and are still (lmao) not commonly considered an “allied” power the way other more anglo countries would fraternize.

            3. Any would-be elders who survived the Holocaust and would speak authoritatively (subjective relative to the Israeli government) out from within Israel against the palestinean genocide are long dead by now and the Netanyahu administration is completely surrounded by yes men and weapons that they don’t deserve access to.

            4. and TL;DR; The history of the region called Israel, Judea, Palestine, Levant… Whatever you want to call it, the land is completely soaked in blood going back for thousands of years and the United States of America has an enormous ego when it comes to world war 2, what it meant and what price the allies paid to stop the Holocaust.

            I blame religion.

        • Bigmouse
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          39 months ago

          It could. Not every ethnic cleansing has to be a Shoah for it to be bad