US Politics on Sidechat | White people commit genocide against Jewish people so the heroic white people made them a country in a place where there was already millions of Arabs living which was conveniently in the same region as tons of oil they wanted influence over

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White people commit genocide against Jewish people so the heroic white people made them a country in a place where there was already millions of Arabs living which was conveniently in the same region as tons of oil they wanted influence over

Anonymous 2w

Israel is possibly the only place in the Middle East where there’s no oil.

Anonymous 2w

I mean it’s worth noting that Zionism was already a movement prior to World War Two. There was already large-scale settlement in Palestine at that point, and Zionist militias were fighting against the British to try to make them withdraw from Palestine and let them take over. We shouldn’t remove the agency from them.

Anonymous

#1 2w

Israel will be expanding to the oil

-2

Anonymous

#1 2w

Well yeah but it’s basically just been an extension of the West in the Middle East so the UK/US could impose their will over countries in that region more easily. E.g. the current war in Iran

Anonymous

OP 2w

That’s not totally the origin though. Like Israel was established initially *against* British territorial interests in the region. Then for the first decade and a half it was a French proxy, and after 1962 it cozied up to the Americans.

Anonymous

OP 2w

To take this reading you kind of have to ignore history before 1973 when we were very deliberately distancing ourselves from Israel to try to avoid pissing off the Arabs so we could keep buying their oil, and also avoid driving them under Soviet influence. We only began supporting Israel in the first place because a lot of Arab states aligned with the Soviets eventually anyways and were supplied by them for the Yom Kippur War. Also as #3 points out.