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“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy,” said Biden privately, according to Woodward. “He’s a bad fucking guy!”

Reads like a bloody Onion article.

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[–] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I am firmly of the opinion that there is SOMETHING Israel has over the US that is probably super classified and super damning. Why else would BOTH parties, in one of, if not THE most influencial voting season in our country, agree on supporting Israel?

For how much the Republicans stand with Israel (and how many actually don't care about genocide since pretty much every Neo-Nazi is Republican), it should be the BIGGEST soft-ball issue to run on for Dems to oppose, being the party of "the rights of the people". But they have the presidency and continue supplying weapons to them for their war engine. No matter how many words are said, actions speak louder.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are the US intelligence operation in the middle east. They are an attack dog for the things the US finds important, meaning they agree with us on economic operations, and will go to war to protect it. Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc. These are all just countries who are willing to actively work in the economic interests of the US as it benefits them. This allows the US access to their intel, to put military facilities in their countries, to use new weapons systems through their conflicts. They protect the standing of the petrodollar.

The US doesn't give a shit if a tiny, powerless, economically insignificant population, or a thousand, get wiped out. Preserving US domination is more important to the US government, and states like Israel will kill anyone in pursuit of that status quo. The only people they would need to have black mail on are government actors who aren't willing to support them, there are not a majority of those, yet.

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seeing what we did to Assange, Manning, Snowden and others, it's not exactly encouraging.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, you have to have access to top secret documentation, and make that public, before you get in trouble with the government in the US, by talking about their actions. While a serious issue, it's not very comparable to simply talking about something that happened, out in the open, that has video, and photo, evidence of it circulating all around the world, getting you in serious trouble with the government. We can even openly talk about what was on those documents, without being swept away by the federal government, now that it is public.

This is just another person who has sided with one evil, and will always whataboutism for them.

[–] Maeve@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The reason it was top secret is because it's so egregious. Everyone who endorsed that campaign of persecution should be prosecuted and ousted, funds out back into Treasury.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're absolutely right.

It's religion. The Jews are in Israel. The Jews are the "chosen people". Religion is retarded and it MAKES people retarded. That's what they've got. Every American moron who is overtly Bible thumping or not is a vote in jeopardy if anybody says boo against Israel.

Religion was great when it was driving human progress around AD 1000, now it's a fucking anchor slowly drowning us all.

Prayer does not empirically improve conditions of people who are sick. The most xtian countries in the world are the worst off by basically every metric. And yet, this brain cancer survives. Luckily we have flax_vert to convert us all or make us want to jump off our local bridge.