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It is hard to understand why the U.S. cares about a random Middle Eastern country called Israel this much. Why not Zimbabwe or Thailand, but Israel? Weird stuff
by system2 5mo ago
It is hard to understand why the U.S. cares about a random Middle Eastern country called Israel this much. Why not Zimbabwe or Thailand, but Israel? Weird stuff. I hope America comes back to its senses and stops dealing with these people.
- sosomoxie 5mo agoThe American people are well on their way to this realization. The problem is in our government, media and executive class, which are fully Zionist occupied.
- actionfromafar 5mo ago... government, media and executive class and a huge chunk of voters all in on Holy War.
- basisword 5mo agoExcellent propaganda and god knows how much blackmail. Just look at the US cities lighting up monuments etc. to celebrate Israeli independence day. And this during a war the majority of US citizens don't support.
- LePetitPrince 5mo ago[dead]
- legacynl 5mo agoIn essence it's not about Israel itself, but rather that the US wants an ally in the region that they can use to project power in the middle east. Of course nowadays there's mutual interests and lobbying, so the choice for Israel is very much set in stone, but in another universe it could have been a different country.
- krapp 5mo ago>It is hard to understand why the U.S. cares about a random Middle Eastern country called Israel this much. Study the links between the American military industrial complex and Evangelical Christianity, in particularly the latter's view of Israel's role in end-times prophecy, and you'll get your answer.
- general1465 5mo agoYou are getting downvoted, but you are correct. USA is failing in separation of church and the state and now it is going to have a war because ancient book said so.
- tialaramex 5mo agoYeah. I think the instinct is "But that's batshit!" and like, yeah, that's exactly the problem. To be fair to the ancient book, at that time it would have been understood by intellectuals that it's not a prediction of future events, it's a message to them about their past and present, not a message to us about our future. So us blaming the book, not the crazy people is the same mistake as if we were screaming at the author of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus". The author was writing fiction, the critics knew it was fiction, most of the readers knew it was fiction, the problem is that billionaire tech bro who thought it was a message from God telling them they need to spend $100Bn to create a Torment Nexus.
- krapp 5mo agoThe Secretary of War, a Christian nationalist and white supremacist, has framed the war in Iran as a holy war to bring about the End Times. Many people in the government have said they consider America's military support of Israel to be an absolute Christian obligation. JD Vance and the President want to create a new Catholicism with blackjack and hookers and holy Zionist warfare because the Pope disagrees with them. We live in batshit times.
- dgellow 5mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism
- djeastm 5mo agoIt kind of made sense (strategic, if not moral) when we were a booming country very dependent on Middle Eastern oil in the last half of the 20th century and wanted to have a strong ally in the region. Makes less sense recently though. Then perhaps Israel has surmised that the US might not be interested in sticking around and decided to make their play while they had an ally in the White House.
- bambax 5mo agoIsrael is "western" outpost in the Middle East. It's not a random country. It's a colonial power with a geopolitical mission.