• bearboiblake@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    Because the US (and the UK, a satellite state of the US) support ongoing US imperialist endeavors. Protesting Israel’s continued genocide brings awareness to it, and the boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) programs directly fuck up the bag, which is the entire point of colonialism, to get that bag.

    Look, I totally understand the temptation to want to shunt everything bad onto Israel. Nobody wants to live in a country that does terrible things, because that makes us all feel a little guilty for not doing more to stop it. I totally get that, and absolutely there is nothing wrong with questioning it. The problem is that most people just arrive at the conclusion that the US is being controlled by Israel with very little understanding of the geopolitics of the region, because it makes them feel better to blame Israel for all of the evil happening.

    We need to wake up to the reality of US Imperialism, and stop sticking our heads in the sand.

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      Yeah there is a big sibling little sibling dynamic and isreal is not the big sibling.

      You would do anything for your little sibling and likewise the US would do anything for Isreal. It’s not right but it true, but that doesn’t mean they control us.

      It’s up to us to stop it.