
the idea that israel controls the united states is not true. it’s the opposite. we supply about 20% of israel’s military budget. without us they would absolutely not be as capable of fulfilling their settler colonialist regime and genocide. without them, the us wouldn’t be affected, albeit we’d be billions of dollars more rich. nothing israel is doing is something our government doesn’t want them doing. we control them and its because our government is just as sick, imperialist, and corrupt.
Iran is actually the world’s only actively pro-trans/anti-gay state, trans women are able to get subsidized gender-affirming care and then get straight-married. The government sees it as a way of turning gay men into straight women. Anyways, I, too take sides in geopolitical conflicts based solely on which country I’d hypothetically prefer to live in. The Dominican Republic should conquer Haiti because the DR has better beaches.
Furthermore the reason America supports Israel so fully is because the business interests who own our government are able to benefit economically from Americas current position in the Middle East; they supply the US military and the IDF with munitions, they benefit from the sanctions on Iran (no need to compete with Iranian oil, agriculture, manufacturing, etc), or they have investments in Israel. Otherwise they’re committed to Israel for religious and ideological reasons.
Yes, not similar. In 1775 GB was a country, the USA was just land, it was not a country. It’s like you living on another planet. You’d still be an US citizen, you’d still be responsible for taxes for money you made, you’d still be eligible to be drafted, nothing has changed. 2026, both USA is a country and Israel is a country on stolen land. The first is a slave of the latter.
We don’t “control them”. Here is how the pyramid scheme works: 1. Israel buys out our politicians. 2. Politicians put Israel first 3. Politicians and Jewish owned media try to convince you Israel is helping you “Iran is building a nuke and going to take out the USA”, so you don’t protest.
For example, a random XYZ company might do $100k in sales, our politicians are about to award them a $250M contract from your taxes to build arms to send to Israel. The politicians will buy up their stock before announcing the contract. Politicians make bank from their investment, Israel gets free aid, and your taxes are given to another country.
For anybody who’s interested the difference between antizionism and antisemitism is that this guy’s talking about Jew-owned media and I’m talking concretely about, like, how finance capital benefits from war and geopolitical turmoil. I have a theory about American-Israeli relations that also works for talking about Ukraine, or Saudi Arabia, or South Africa during apartheid. It’s not all dependent on ideas about a jew cabal doing Jew stuff
?? Circumcision is not religiously required in Christian religions, it’s mostly done for health/ hygiene purposes to prevent infections, guys can barely clean their asscrack and you expect them to clean their foreskin? I do not like parents that say they are doing it for appearance reasons that is weird.
What are these cases of homosexuals being executed in Gaza? I’ve looked into it myself, and I was never able to find any information about it. My assumption that there were homophobic attitudes that were present in society, and people might face hostility, but there wasn’t a law against it that was actively being enforced.
Wanting a two state solution has always been the least nuanced option, what are the other options? A one state solution where everyone on one side is either eradicated or forcibly moved? Should history repeat itself even more just so you can see a ‘Palestine’ on a map instead of an ‘Israel’ ?
Civilians are constantly being harmed in anti-terrorism and Palestine is being occupied by Israel’s military in order to combat terrorism. How is a sovereign Palestinian state supposed to establish itself while every Palestinian territory is either under Israeli occupation or bombardment?
Hamas is a terrorist organization that doesn’t care about the lives of Palestinians, they only care to further their own agenda, they will use civilians and children as human shields by making their bases next to schools and hospitals to earn sympathy for furthering their terrorist agenda, which it seems like it has worked on you.
Do you think Palestinians can vote out Hamas and hold a vote to become their own nation? No. I bet Israel would love if they could so they wouldn’t have to deal with the terrorist organizations hiding in Palestine, sadly the terrorists do not care for what the Palestinian civilians want. Why do you think Egypt hasn’t let in any Palestinian refugees, they know that the Hamas terrorists will disguise themselves in the crowd as refugees so they can further their terrorist agenda in new lands
Are you talking about in the 1970s when Israel helped fund the Palestinian Liberation Organization to help build schools and mosques as charity, which then turned into Hamas after the First Antifada in 1980s under Sheikh Ahmed Yassin? Or in 2018 when Israel transferred millions to Gaza/ Hamas to help pay for civil servant salaries and prevent economic collapse which they then used to fund Hamas’a military instead of paying Palestinian civilians ?
The source for “Hamas kills gay people” is reporting on documents that were literally produced by the IDF. Links to an article in Haaretz, which I do generally consider trustworthy, but I can’t read more because it’s paywalled. Mahmoud Ishtiwi is a senior member of Hamas, so even if the story is completely true it doesn’t support the “Hamas executed queer Palestinians” narrative as well as an example of the same thing happening to a member of the public.
Killing a gay member of your organization can be damage control, or the result of an internal conflict in the organization, while if the same thing was done to a random member of the public that necessarily would be motivated by homophobia. Especially if there’s a specific offense called “sodomy” or something, that they were publicall convicted of.
Never mentioned anything to deal with the PLO, quit deflecting. You’re such a fucking weasel that you can’t answer anything directly Since we are now going to that topic though, Yassin was directly funded by Israel to overthrow the secular PLO and further destabilize the region. Multiple Israeli officials have admitted to doing so. This continued for almost 20 years, from 1970-89
Why didn’t a Palestinian state form before Hamas came into the picture, and why is there not currently a sovereign Palestinian state in the west bank, where there isn’t a Hamas presence? Is the Israeli military occupation solely to prevent Hamas from entering the West Bank and if so, why does it predate the formation of Hamas?
Journalists reporting on their closest neighboring country isn’t trustworthy or just because it’s from Israel makes everything in it false? It’s not like there are many independent Gazan news outlets for citizens to report their own stories going against Hamas, that would make them liable for execution. That does suck it’s paywalled too wtf
What’s the point of the illegal settlements? If the point of fighting Hamas is to allow for the formation of a Palestinian state then why doesn’t Israel support the PLO in the West Bank, and help them to form a state there? Ceding the West Bank to a PLO-led state would have the same effect as occupying the territory yourself, because Fatah also hates Hamas.
You can take that up with the British, they decided the rules of the sand wars and what would become of the British Mandate of Palestine, after the Holocaust they basically just dumped boatloads of Jewish refugees onto the shores near Jerusalem and fucked it up for everyone
It’s not trustworthy because I don’t trust the IDF to give me reliable information. The source in this case is just “we went down into a Hamas tunnel and found these documents there.” I’d need the information to be confirmed by a third party, not just repeated in Haaretz. Like I said I thing Haaretz is a generally good source I just don’t see what they’ve done to confirm the information in this case. Maybe I’d change my mind if I read the rest of the article. Venmo me subscription money
The last time Israel supported the PLO was right before the First Intifada happened, where some members split off to form Hamas and used Israel’s funds to pay people to go around and stab a lot of Jewish people, if I was Fatah I would also hate Hamas because Hamas uses Palestinians as a human shield and from the actions of Hamas has made Gaza into a war zone and humanitarian crisis
Okay forget the specific suggestion regarding *how* Israel could promote Palestinian statehood in the territory it currently controls, and consider *if* Israel is currently doing anything concrete towards that goal, what if anything Israel could be doing, and why it isn’t doing anything, if indeed it isn’t doing anything.
Should Israel not do anything and just let their country and citizens get bombed by Hamas? They could probably have some independent protectorate lands that are governed by Palestinians with a joint economic and military policy to help prevent terrorist organizations from destabilizing the region
The article says that Hamas was sending balloons with explosives into Israel in 2018, and that they tried to pay Hamas with ‘peace money’ as a way to keep Hamas calm and deter future attacks, but Qatar didn’t want to do that anymore. Would you rather have had Israel start the war back in 2018 for the balloon explosives?
So like my Fatah suggestion, Israel should ally with West Bank Palestinians, help to establish a sovereign state on Palestinian territory, and work together with that state against Hamas. Why is it that Israel isn’t doing that, if the point of fighting Hamas is to create a Palestinian state?
Unfortunately we’re stuck trying to looking at actions to judge intent. You’re saying that Israel has a specific intent and I’m asking you to tell me examples of things that Israel has done which support the idea that it has this larger intent, and you can’t. So I’m mainly just trying to get you to either say, “Israel has no interest in bringing about a two-state solution,” or give me evidence that Israel is trying to bring about a two state solution.
I mean you can bring this back to the British dumping abunch of Holocaust refugees on the beaches, and then the Six Day War when neighboring Islamic countries didn’t want a Jewish country right next to them so they all attacked Israel, and then Israel won and returned the Sinai peninsula for peace relations, and then later they evacuated the Gaza Strip to help bring peace with Hamas in the area, which had started the Second Intifada by using suicide bombers against Israeli citizens
However, there are multiple acceptable answers to the question, I’m realizing. If Israel has been fighting terrorism for its entire existence (or indeed since before it was established, considering the mandatory period) so the fight against terrorism has been constant. Therefore it never will end, therefore “Israel will allow a Palestinian state after it has defeated terrorism” = “Israel will never allow a Palestinian state because there will always be terrorism.”
OR you could say Israel has been fight terrorism since the end of the six-day war and the start of its occupation of the West Bank, in which case it’s circular reasoning, because you’re saying Israel occupies the West Bank to fight terrorism while in reality the terrorist organizations formed in response to the occupation of the West Bank.
So, logically, as long Israel occupies the west bank there will be terrorist activity opposing its occupation of the West Bank, and Israel will maintain its military presence in the West Bank as long as it believes there’s any terrorism at all. It’s an infinite cycle, the two feed in to one another.
I’m not the one calling you a weasel or slippery for defending nationwide deemed terrorist organizations, and talk about ‘good faith’ when you brought up casual circumcision when talking about religious extremists forcefully transitioning gay men into ‘straight women’. The history is very nuanced it’s not black and white, and yes sure you can block me but being a sensitive snowflake in yikyak comments isn’t going to help the Palestinians get their own state I hope you know that
Damn i thought I had scared you away :( Also still didn’t read the entire comment I said about circumcision because you’re missing some massive context I said about that example. And you screaming about how this history is extremely nuanced is hilarious when you are still saying I am defending terrorist organizations. Don’t sit here and gaslight people, they can read back and see that I haven’t defended any terrorist organization. What manipulative behavior