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

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Post by llamaimperative »

richbell wrote: post #127
ethanbond wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm not sure how you can definitively say "nope". It could just as easily be both, or a third reason.

You can definitively say “nope” by looking at where the unquestioned US policy support of Israel comes from. It comes from the evangelical right wing in the GOP. They are not fans of Jews per se. They are fans of going to heaven and believe that Israel is a key ingredient for doing that (when the rest of us get slaughtered in a holy war).

When did 34% of the current White House staffers become responsible for decades of US foreign policy?

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

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Post by blueflow »

weregiraffe wrote: post #137
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.

The Western world has a 2000+ years long history of antisemitism (starting back in the Hellenistic era when the Mediterranean polytheist majority was not amused by Jewish minority strict monotheism, and vice versa). Every criticism of Israel must be viewed in that light, because 95% of it is just the endlessly rehashed antisemitism.

Every criticism of Israel must be viewed on a factual basis and whether its unfounded or not.

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Post by [deleted] »

ethanbond wrote: post #115
SenAnder wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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

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Post by boppo1 »

zogrodea wrote: post #125
tamimio wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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…

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Wasn't he wrongly convicted by KKK-sympathetic southern white jurors? The /pol/ narrative tends to ignore consensus on reality.

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

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Post by ethanbond »

SauciestGNU wrote: post #136
richbell wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure how you can definitively say "nope". It could just as easily be both, or a third reason.

Yeah I'm not sure about "nope", but I certainly think it's a mistake to assume Jewish people support Israeli government policies.

It’s also a mistake to think the current administration’s White House staffers set decades of defense and foreign aid policy.

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Post by DrFlipper »

ShellfishMeme wrote: post #128
DrFlipper wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Your comment history explicitly mentions that you are a fascist. I guess nowadays you folks stopped measuring skull shapes and read things into internet comments instead.

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

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Post by andrewinardeer »

I'm leaning towards the scenario where an organized group mass reported his profile after the show aired and Meta's Lord Algorithm nuked the page.

I'm also willing to bet that when it gets manually reviewed it will be reinstated.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

zogrodea wrote: post #125
tamimio wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- 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…

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

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Post by 221qqwe »

llamaimperative wrote: post #138
221qqwe wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be the answer on Reddit where any meaningful discussion is usually impossible and the most absurd sounding claims are upvoted. Do we also have to do it here?

It’s interesting when people over-intellectualize to the extent that they literally disbelieve that people believe their own proclaimed religion. The Christian doomsday mythologies are extremely clear and extremely broadly believed among a core US right wing power center, the Evangelicals. I suppose it’s up to you if you’d like to believe that 1) Evangelicals don’t believe what they claim to believe or 2) they do bel…

> that people believe their own proclaimed religion The comment above is talking about

> very popular in evangelical America that has to do with Israel being involved in the "end days" > strong Israeli state will hasten the rapture or some nonsense like that

That not a mainstream Christian view, in fact it's very fringe view and you don't have to 'over-intellectualize' (whatever that means) to realize that.

> I suppose it’s up to you if you’d like to believe that 1) Evangelicals don’t believe what they claim to believe

or option 3: don't believe what you claim they believe (the 'extremely broadly' bit anyway). There are plenty of more sensible religious, political and other reasons which explain widespread support for Israel.

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