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 Originally Posted by boost
So the US and Israel are best buds til the end... ok, fine.. but why can't we just admit how fucked up Zionism was to start with. Like, ok, we really fucked up after WWII. Sure these people were SOL and we wanted to prevent another Holocaust, but this clearly was not the solution. However, we are where we are now, and at this point Israelis and Palestinians have to get along, or suffer through an endless conflict.
Why can't we just say that? That would be political suicide... but why? People wonder why politicians are so full of shit, but they don't stop to realize that Barack Obama can't say "hey, guys, I'm not the first black president, unless I'm also the 44th white president." because the same people sick of the bullshitting politicians can't cope with the truth. Fuck you US electorate, fuck you.
I think it is mainly because there are some quite old and extremely rich Zionists. They still live in the post-WW2 world and the Cold War, and things won't change until they die off. Despite the fact that most Israelis themselves are against extreme Zionism, it pays to be an extremist like Netanyahu because of funders like Sheldon Adelson
IIRC the overwhelming majority of US Jews are against Zionism and also support the Palestinians. There are simply a few crotchety old men with assloads of cash that support it
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