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The United States is in no position to go after Israel on human rights issues given how its army acted in Iraq and Afghanistan, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (Religious Zionist Party) said.

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[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He’s not wrong, but that doesn’t give him the moral high ground he thinks it does. He’s still a racist piece of shit.

Ben-Gvir said:

My right and that of my wife and my children, to travel on the roads in Judea and Samaria, is more important than the freedom of movement for Arabs.

[–] bobman@unilem.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

White people > brown people, yada yada yada.

[–] rosenjcb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mizrachim (MidEast Jews);vote overwhelmingly right-wing and arguably hate Arabs more than white Jews (Ashkenazim) because they lost everything when they were expelled from Arab lands. This is a Israeli v Arab conflict, not White vs Colored. Please leave your American-centered viewpoints at the door.

[–] bobman@unilem.org 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. Zionism is religious nationalism.

Of course most zionists are going to be right-wing nutjobs.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The $150,000,000,000 we waste on that terrorist state every year gives us the authority to preach about morality.

We need to cut that aid, spending it on our own people, and then let Israel argue about morality with their Arab neighbors.

[–] Pat12@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Is it actually 150,000,000,000

[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I think the tons of money, weapons and intel we give them gives us the right to make certain demands, hypocritical or not. Careful snapping at the hand that feeds….

[–] bobman@unilem.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is the US still giving Israel money?

[–] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Because there's a sizable contingent of the electorate which is fanatically in favor of giving Israel aid, mainly for religious reasons, and the opposition to that aid is much more tepid and/or less numerous.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, Israel is not in a strong position on that behalf, either.

[–] HorreC@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a dumb American here (and yes I should look this up) but was the USA in all of these instances at war with these countries where as I dont recall Israel being at war with country. Seems that should be a hell of a delimiter on when you are committing war crimes with your standing military.

[–] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey fellow American. Yeah, sorry, we didn't declare war as legally defined when we went over there. You shoulda probably checked.

[–] HorreC@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

was it one of those dumb police actions again? Iraq we did, I just assumed they did the same with Afghanistan. Thank you for educating me.