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US Politics 22h
i dont get why people are so attached to israel. like even if there was no genocide or anything, thats a foreign country on the other side of the world where no one you know even lives. why do you care so much
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Anonymous 22h

we do happen to give them a lot of money. for no return for the american people.

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Anonymous 22h

That foreign country on the other side of the world regularly exerts outsized influence on our domestic political processes

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Anonymous 22h

some of us do know people who live there

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Anonymous 22h

Hope you’re addressing the annoying twats who can’t go 5 minutes without making some joke about Israel or who blame unrelated things on Israel rather than people who see Israel as an important ally in the ME

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 22h

and now that money is being used for "war" which is just an ethnic cleansing, being perpetrated by a far right government. its kinda like how people fucking hated us funding south american right wing dictators and coups, except israel doesnt even provide us with any goods or anything.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

the truth is there’s a lot i hate about israel and particularly their government. i think the US should have cut military aid except for the Iron Dome ages ago. but i hate seeing Americans parade around acting like they’re somehow morally superior because they happen to live in a country so powerful all our wars and human rights abuses happen far away and through proxies

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 22h

Not to mention the whole stealing and developing nukes while still denying they have them, actively being engaged in espionage against the United States, and the evident connections between Jeffrey Epstein and the highest levels of the Israeli government

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

plus we scapegoat them for all our problems which is just dumb. israel doesn’t have a ton of influence over the US government, it’s the other way around. the US exerts influence over Israel, our government finds them useful

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

our government doesn’t need to be manipulated into evil. it’s plenty evil all on its own, but people don’t want to face that

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 22h

France gave “israel” nuclear weapons, because similarly to the U.S., “israel” allows France to project power in the region. “israel”, France, and the UK all occupied to Suez for power projection and control over their markets

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 22h

This is just not true. All the money that is being given is termed so it is spent on US weapons. It is an indirect subsidy of the military industrial complex.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 22h

everyone's favorite! even better

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 22h

Regrettably people would like to delude themselves into thinking that the US is eternally hoodwinked by Israel instead of having some critical self reflection and recognizing that Israel is an extension of US interests abroad. One project is dependent on the other and it is not America who depends on Israel.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 22h

YES

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