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Because the US has a massive hand in that political issue in the middle east.
Well they are funding it with those protestors' tax dollars
Oh yeah that too.
If I was American I would also be livid, like what the fuck are you guys doing
I mean, our tax dollars regularly go to heinous shit. Just the fact that like 50% of the US budget for living memory goes to the military means that you're already starting deeply in the moral red.
Also the even more direct fact that Israel exists primarily to provide the US control over middle eastern oil. It's an air base and port and provides air space through which to it can attack countries in the region. The constant war carried out by Israel against neighbors and within it's own border destabalizes the region, making it easier to maintain US supported authoritarians.
Making life harder for people in cars is actually direct action against one of the root causes of the genocide. If you are in a car, you are complicit in genocide.
Not all anti-Israel commentary is antisemitic....but this sure as hell is.
Israel exists primarily to provide the US control over oil in the region? That's its purpose for existing?
That argument shows complete disregard for the millions of Jews living there and the sequence of events that led to the need for a sovereign Jewish state in the first place
This seems like conflating purpose and reason, or current function.
Israel acts independently and has it's own interests, which sometimes conflict with US interests, but often align. The US continues to prop Israel up because it needs access to the region.
Saying that the British and later Americans used Jews in the same way they used Scotch Irish or other marginalized people to colonize land they wanted to control by proxy is just a statement about history. It would be anti-semetic to suggest that Israel is somehow able to manipulate the US in to funding and arming it, rather than the relationship going primarily the opposite direction... As the US does with it's many other proxies all over the world. It would be anti-semetic to suggest that Israel is somehow unique in being funded and supported by the US without being part of US global strategy. If we can accept that Israel is just another US proxy, then we ask, "given the local geopolitics, would Israel exist without US support?"
The history of persecution that allowed the British and Americans to exploit Jews to colonize Palestine isn't what my post was about. I can understand the confusion. I assume it was in good faith.
You're straight up being antisemitic, equating an apartheid state to jewishness
....he said to the Jew. Op literally said the reason for Israel's existence is oil interests.
Israel IS an apartheid state. Fuck the Israeli government and fuck Netenyahu especially. But that doesn't make OP right
Jewish people can be antisemitic, lmao.
Equating zionism with jewishness is antisemitic
Some of my family didn't survive a death camp to be used as a cudgel for a settler colonial project.
This is using the holocaust to justify Israel, it is ahistorical and disgusting.
The reason for the creation of the Israeli state where it is was absolutely a political decision by the big Western powers (just like the repeated backing of Arab religious fanaticism over secular nationalism, btw). If the primary concern was providing a home for displaced Jews, land in Germany or the US would have made much more sense.
Disagreeing with Israeli government atrocities? Must be the next fucking Hitler.
Israeli government can fuck off. They are horrific. Doesn't mean Israel exists for the purpose of defending oil interests
The people delayed in traffic on the other hand have zero influence. And more than likely are now massive Israel supporters due to being so pissed off by the protesters.
The economy being affected by the protest does, though. But setting aside the effectiveness of this method of protesting, lemme just quote MLK here.
This is your attitude now.
Except this quote could quite easily be used to justify absolutely any method of achieving a goal
I mean that's if you take it as a one-paragraph Bible I guess.
Hit dogs holler
I've never seen it used otherwise