• Formfiller@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        They wouldn’t need to blackmail our politicians if that was the case . I think you’ve got it backwards it’s us who’s occupied by them. Netynahu is calling the shots Trump is a joke

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          2 days ago

          I don’t have it backwards, I promise you. Israel is a colony set up by the US and the UK with the explicit purpose of advancing their foreign policy goals in the Middle East. The US pretends that Israel is a sovereign nation because the US population would not tolerate their actions if it was their own country.

          Israel destabilizes the middle east, making the region ripe for extractionism.

          Not all US politicians are aligned with US/Israeli imperialist interests and thus they are bribed, but plenty of them aren’t.

          Trump is a puppet, but he’s not Israel’s puppet, he’s the puppet of the primarily US-based ruling elite.

          Look at all of the connections between Mossad and the CIA. They work together all the time.

          Stop spreading their misinfornation for them.

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            18 hours ago

            It started out that way. I don’t think it’s wrong to question the current power dynamics. Why would the US and UK care in the least of some college students are sitting in protest of Gaza? Nothing in that act changes their daily in the least. Nothing.

            Unless someone else is calling the shots.

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              17 hours ago

              Because the US (and the UK, a satellite state of the US) support ongoing US imperialist endeavors. Protesting Israel’s continued genocide brings awareness to it, and the boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) programs directly fuck up the bag, which is the entire point of colonialism, to get that bag.

              Look, I totally understand the temptation to want to shunt everything bad onto Israel. Nobody wants to live in a country that does terrible things, because that makes us all feel a little guilty for not doing more to stop it. I totally get that, and absolutely there is nothing wrong with questioning it. The problem is that most people just arrive at the conclusion that the US is being controlled by Israel with very little understanding of the geopolitics of the region, because it makes them feel better to blame Israel for all of the evil happening.

              We need to wake up to the reality of US Imperialism, and stop sticking our heads in the sand.

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                14 hours ago

                Yeah there is a big sibling little sibling dynamic and isreal is not the big sibling.

                You would do anything for your little sibling and likewise the US would do anything for Isreal. It’s not right but it true, but that doesn’t mean they control us.

                It’s up to us to stop it.