• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    LOL, what is the U.S. going to really do to Israel if they don’t listen? Cut their funds? Bomb them? Whatevs.

    The Epstein class has spent decades instructing everyone that Israel interests are “our” interests. I’m not sure it’s even a large percentage of the elitists’ interests to have us paired with someone like Netanyahu.

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      7 hours ago

      Fucking congress just gave Israel control of the US army. Trumps not even commander in chief any more. What a stupid, shit for brains moron.

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      12 hours ago

      LOL, what is the U.S. going to really do to Israel if they don’t listen? Cut their funds? Bomb them? Whatevs.

      Biden went through the same game. “I called up Mr. Netanyahu and was very firm when I said this is the line in the sand and not to cross it. And if he crosses the next line, I will be even more firm in my next phone call.” You could say the same of Trump 1, Obama, Bush, Clinton…

      The last president to do anything resembling opposition to Israel was Ronald fucking Reagan, ffs. Everyone else has been some combination of impotent or apathetic.

      I’m not sure it’s even a large percentage of the elitists’ interests to have us paired with someone like Netanyahu.

      Israel functions as an enormous money laundering operation. When we look back on the country in another hundred years, I suspect we’ll count it similar to Cuba when it was under the yoke of the US Mafia or South Africa during Apartheid or The Philippines under US imperial occupation. It’s a place for the rich to hide their money, a place for the industrialists to ruthlessly exploit the working class, and a place for nativist freaks to live out their genocidal fantasies.

      Add in that Israel has a special place in the hearts of the religious grifters and their zealot marks, and you can see how the country works to launder fascist ideology into liberal moderate talking points. Theocracy gets whitewashed as Democracy. Settler colonialism becomes a kind-of Land Back for white nationalists. Police brutality that would make an LASD deputy wince is massaged into liberal self-defense.

      Elites have interest in the Israeli state both as a fortress of imperialists abroad and a model for conquering native peoples around the globe.