Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel

Post by WeylandYutani » Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 11:27 AM UTC

trilbyglens wrote: post #104

throwaway914 wrote: post #19

I know I'm naive: I don't understand why US companies are so sensitive to respecting Israel. I don't know why our gov is so sensitive to this either. Israel - like all countries - deserves criticism, no? This can't purely be about respecting the billions spent on US weapons to defend Israel, right? I genuinely do not understand, because I think they'd happily buy from the military anyway.

There's also a lot of wacky christian folklore that is very popular in evangelical America that has to do with Israel being involved in the "end days". Some nutjobs feel that a strong Israeli state will hasten the rapture or some nonsense like that. There are a good number of those folk in elected positions, but also the evangelical crowd is inordinately influential in US politics, so it weasels it's way into many di…

Post by ethanbond » Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 11:33 AM UTC

DrFlipper wrote: post #119

ethanbond wrote: post #113

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Post by zogrodea » Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 11:37 AM UTC

tamimio wrote: post #118

throwaway914 wrote: post #19

I know I'm naive: I don't understand why US companies are so sensitive to respecting Israel. I don't know why our gov is so sensitive to this either. Israel - like all countries - deserves criticism, no? This can't purely be about respecting the billions spent on US weapons to defend Israel, right? I genuinely do not understand, because I think they'd happily buy from the military anyway.

- A lot of the US senators have dual citizenship, US/Israelis. - Strong lobby in both political parties. - Boomers with their Judeo-Christians “values”. - Israel intelligence agencies controlling/influencing ADL, ADL pressuring three letter agencies in US to further influence big tech. - The usual tactics of infiltration into big corps especially ones that can influence public opinions, you can read a little about Ro…

Post by richbell » Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 11:45 AM UTC

ethanbond wrote: post #115

SenAnder wrote: post #64

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Part of the answer is simply that a large fraction of the US government is Jewish. E.g. according to the White House, their staff (everything from stenographers and secretaries, to labor relations representatives and foreign policy experts) is 32% Jewish (2.4% of US population), 44% ethnic minority (about even with US), and 24% non-Jewish White (55% of US) Sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119693

Nope. It’s eschatological Christians who back Israel. Has nothing to do with protecting Jews and everything to do with evangelical Christians’ end times prophecy. The world’s largest military has made decades of foreign policy decisions in accordance with these people’s doomsday fetish.

Post by bmicraft » Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 11:49 AM UTC

qzx_pierri wrote: post #124

WeylandYutani wrote: post #121

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Is it nonsense if half of Americans believe it? I live in a post religious society and it's easy to forget that these things still matter for the rest of the planet.

>Is it nonsense if half of Americans believe it? https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-critical-thinking/log...