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I don't know if it is a big problem but people around the world, mainly in Muslim majority countries, hate US because of its unconditional support of Israel. Ov

• dragonwriter 2y ago
  > I don't know if it is a big problem but people around the world, mainly in Muslim majority countries, hate US because of its unconditional support of Israel. They also hate the US because of the governments we do and have supported against popular will (and/or opposed despite popular will) for non-Israel reasons (oil being a big one) in the Islamic world. Oh, and for directly killing a bunch of them, and torturing others, fairly recently in a series of wars -- including a very large one that was very clearly a war of aggression followed by a poorly managed occupation -- ourselves, not principally motivated by Israeli interests. Like, if Israel vanished tomorrow, a very large number of the people that hate the US "because of its unconditional support of Israel" would hate the US just as much, even though they would have one fewer thing to cite as to why. And, foreign issues aside, Israeli influence contributes a lot less to American internal problems than other foreign influence operations do.