photographed by his side in Afghanistan. Lavigne’s next rotation, beginning November 2, 2015, was not to Iraq, where thirty-nine-year-old Master Sergeant Joshua Wheeler, his Delta Force teammate, had just been killed in an attempt to rescue hostages in Mosul; or to Syria, where fifty special operators, the first of a growing contingent, had touched down a mere three days earlier, but to neighboring Israel.
ah, israel.
I wasn't expecting a connection, and then obviously am not surprised. the USA *is* settler colonialism, and set up israel (settlements, little suburbs/enclaves) inside of palestine, and then armed the that immigrant population to take territory from the original inhabitants, to 'fill out' the notion of a boardered ethnicity-backed state.
israel is doing to palestine today what european americans did to the native people in today's 'greater united states', as they claimed territory and murdered their way across the continent across the last few hundred years.
