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Zero sum game logic. Pursuit of power at the expense of everything else. Capitalism. Take your pick.
It's pretty disgusting.
Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only one Palestinian authority was recognized in the Oslo Accords as representing Palestine, and they've supported it since 1982. Which is why Israel funded Hamas to weaken the PLO. https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...
Israel never funded Hamas, you might be thinking of them facilitating Qatari aid funds.
Same difference
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#14So evidently a two state solution is off the table, and once all the Palestinians are driven away, a one state solution will become acceptable to Israel. Is there some other way this could play out?
I imagine it will play out similarly to the genocide of the Native Americans: Ethnically cleansed or genocided. Any stragglers will live on reservations or the equivalent. Palestinians living under Israeli control will be subject to apartheid a la the Jim Crow South in the US.
I still have a slim hope that this outcome will be averted, but the odds of that lessen by the day.
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#15> Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project
Israel approves patently illegal West Bank settlement project
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anyway the idea basically died on October 7.
It's been dead since Netanyahu became Prime Minister. https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-748435 https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/knesset-overwhe...
Netanyahu became PM in 1996. In his role as PM he signed follow up agreements to Oslo accords and handed over to PA control more parts west bank.
As cabinet minister (in 2004?) he voted 4 times in favor of disengagement from gaza and removal of all jews from there (both life and dead).
Later, when he became PM again, in speech that he gave he affirmed that he supports two state solution as long as palestinian state demilitarized (something that demand now all western countries that recognize it).
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It’s not a mystery in my opinion. Israeli and American intelligence are heavily involved with each other. Israel knows all of America’s deepest secrets. The financial ties run deep. Israel has been injecting large quantities of capital into US politics. All of this has been happening for half a century.
It’s only a mystery if you think we pick our allies solely on the basis of whether we think they’re a goody or baddy.
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Geopolitics doesnt change because someone was mean. Its all about power and influence. Isreal is key for enacting and protecting American interests in the region. Whats happening in Palestine hurts in the short term but I think average people will forget about it in a year and the US foreign policy will be business as usual. Its brutal to think about but I cant see it going any other way, most of the people upset by…
There is absolutely nothing critical to US national security that Israel can provide the United States. When you say “protecting American interests” what you really mean is protecting Israeli interests. America has no national security interest in Israeli settlement expansion in West Bank, Gaza & southern Syria.
The intelligence Israel does provide the US is related to conflicts & terrorist groups that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for Israel itself.
Literally all the Middle East countries host US military bases and are puppet states of the US anyway so I don’t see how Israel provides any value.
“Israel is an albatross around America’s neck” - John Mearsheimer
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US ruling class are Zionists. They are all part of the same club. Doesn’t matter if it is not in the interest of the US state, only that it benefits their own interests.
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Geopolitics doesnt change because someone was mean. Its all about power and influence. Isreal is key for enacting and protecting American interests in the region. Whats happening in Palestine hurts in the short term but I think average people will forget about it in a year and the US foreign policy will be business as usual. Its brutal to think about but I cant see it going any other way, most of the people upset by…
Israel provides America with nothing, that’s a tired old trope. Even conservatives recognize it:
https://www.cato.org/commentary/israel-strategic-liability-u...