• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    That seems like a bad idea? I don’t know what antagonizing the US would help with in the current conflict. I’d think they want US support/compassion for Palistine to be higher not lower, and attacking is a sure way to plumit it.

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      11 months ago

      That’s the thing. It literally does not matter how much the American people support Palestine because the American government is going to do whatever the American ruling class wants.

      There is no chance in hell Americans would vote to send aid to Israel if it was a referendum.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t think you’re wrong about the first part, but I disagree that Americans wouldn’t vote to support Israel. Many Americans support Israel for religious reasons, and many more see the nation as the only ally we have in the Middle East. It’s a dramatic oversimplification of the reality, but nobody ever lost an election underestimating the American voters.

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          11 months ago

          Will you see support? Yes, absolutely.

          I don’t think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell that at least 50% of Americans will support sending aid to Israel if given the chance to vote on it.

          The left won’t support it because they’re anti-war.

          The right won’t support it because their constituency is anti-Israel, anti-Semetic, and follows the talking point ‘help Americans first’ religiously.