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answering to your other comments as well, Israel fulfils American interest in the area as I understand it. It is the best freedom-per-dollar the US can get, exc
by typesystem 6y ago
answering to your other comments as well,
Israel fulfils American interest in the area as I understand it. It is the best freedom-per-dollar the US can get, except maybe south-Korea. between all of American attempts to establish their dominance and their believes in the world, you pointed to one of their more successful investments.
for this topic. If you want to reduce the violence in the area of the middle east, joint local economical ventures are a perfectly good start. hopefully one day with Lebanon too.
disclaimer I'm Israeli.
- solosoyokaze 6y agoAs an American I don't want my interests fulfilled at the expense of other's human rights, basic peace and sovereignty.
- typesystem 6y agoI'm not going to debate US politics with American but this page [0] shows me Israel is not exception in American policy. As I said before probably one of the few successful attempt to encourage a democracy. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_S...
- solosoyokaze 6y agoI don't know what point you're trying to make with that link. The US normally sanctions countries committing human rights violations, it doesn't typically fund them. Israel is an outlier there.
- mikem170 6y agoI'm not sure what the point of that link was, either. But I'd point out that America has A LOT of blood on its hands. A half million Iraqi's being the most recent, Vietnamese before that, and Koreans before that. Still going strong with drone strikes. Banana republics in central America, mucked around in south America. Proxy wars in Africa. Keeping the Middle East destabilized. The average American seems to support all of the above, which just means it will continue. I don't want to say that America is an evil country, but it is the biggest and violates the rights of a lot of people (to say the least) in pursuit of its interests. It's an empire warping the world to its desires. Economically (as you mentioned), culturally, and militarily. That's what big powerful countries do.
- solosoyokaze 6y agoI agree. I'd also add that America was created with the genocide of Native people, built up with slavery and we currently have the largest prison population in total and per capita of any nation on the planet. It's hard not to say that America is an evil country, if you're one of the many people it's hurt, it very much is.