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The US is supporting Israel through what we can mostly all agree is a genocide of the Gazans. Clearly, Biden isn't a genocidal maniac, yet he's all in with unwavering support. Why are we doing this? There has to be a logical reason that isn't just "we want Israel to kill everyone in Gaza and take their land a la lebensraum."

We know this is an emotional topic, so please be respectful of each other so that we can have open and clear authentic discussion on the matter.

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[–] yogurt@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Biden isn’t a genocidal maniacBack during the Iraq War, Biden and Blinken came up with the idea of partitioning Iraq into 3 different ethnostates. "We should take [ethnic group] and PUSH it somewhere else!!" is the kind of thing Biden thinks makes sense.

"It is important that whatever you do succeeds quickly. We would be able to influence the reaction in America if whatever happens happens after we return."

[–] Postreader2814@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Israel is an ally in the middle east, the only one who does what the US says whenever they say it.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Israel is doing a lot of the dirty military R&D that the USA can not do locally, stuff like using AI to make killing machines.

Plus, the Israeli political lobby pumps massive funding into US politics. You can easily see who is getting the influencer money based on their stance. No sane person would stand behind a kill to death ratio like Gaza unless they were compromised. Killing more than 20:1 and calling it some kind of retaliation is psychotic. If you simply step back from the news cycle and give yourself the space needed to think for yourself, the truth is obvious.

For the far right in the USA, Israel is indistinguishable from another crusade, and those kinds of people can not distinguish between terrorists and all Muslims, mostly because they can't see how their own extremist jihad-like ideology is nearly as toxic.

The vast majority of people in the USA now are under educated and completely lack fundamental logic skills. Like, we generally can't afford the good schools. Look at any of the top schools and you will find the majority of students are foreign nationals. The general population of the USA has had nearly 50 years of complete neglect and exploitation. All of the growth is at the top by those that do the exploiting. This is why things like school shootings happen so much. I'm all for reasonable gun control, but the real issue is that the majority of people have no future and no way to escape the constant pressure of simply surviving. These are the people who see a headline about some politician, do no research, and become emotionally attached to the brand without doing any research or follow up observations about accountability. Half or more of people that actually vote follow this pattern.

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago
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