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We can both cherry-pick history all day long, but back in the real world, the Prime Minister of Israel does not campaign with a white supremacist
by gemjam 7y ago
We can both cherry-pick history all day long, but back in the real world, the Prime Minister of Israel does not campaign with a white supremacist
- eesmith 7y agoWhy not? US domestic policy in the 1950s was explicitly based on white supremacy. Jim Crow laws were actively enforced. Yet the US supported the creation of the State of Israel. "Golda Meir describes Nixon in her autobiography as the best friend Israel ever had in the presidency and does so in life and death terms." says http://www.jewishmag.com/167mag/kissinger-nixon-war-watergate/kissinger-nixon-war-watergate.htm http://www.jewishmag.com/167mag/kissinger-nixon-war-watergat... which goes on to say "But… Nixon, like many anti-Semites, had a deep admiration for Israel and Israelis". Nixon's "Southern strategy", infamously, was designed to appeal to racism against African Americans. So there's no inherent contradiction here.