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Gethsemane. For most of the GWOT, the deep and abiding relationship between the American and the Israeli militaries was soft-pedaled for fear of inflaming Arab and Muslim public opinion. For instance, the United States declined to include Israel in its “coalition of the willing” that invaded Iraq while proudly touting the inclusion of much smaller countries like Palau, Macedonia, and Micronesia. But Israeli politicians and Israeli foreign influence organizations lobbied hard for nearly every war in which the United States became embroiled after 2001, and following President Bush’s rescinding ...more
Josh Thompson
I remember in the video games I played as a kid (in the house of an american military family) the constant glorification of 'israeli commando' type shit. icky. killing kids. male people. i'm a 37 year old male person. If I lived in palestine, I'd obviously not be alive right now, and no one before me for generations would have experienced meaningful peace. The state fabricates, fantasizes, fabricates from existance, the concept of ethnicity, in order to tie certain benefits or penalties to the results. Israeli people, the american government, isn't murdering 'palestinians', 'afghanis', 'iraqi's, they're murdering 'people living in palestine', 'people living in afghanistan', 'people living in iraq'. Wait till someone tells them that the concept of a state, the state, any particular state (or country) is made up...
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