by achrilock
israel
So, let me make sure I understand this correctly. The people doing the ethnic cleansing get more weapons to do it. The people providing the weapons get more money. The politicians backing it get political favors. The people protesting it get beaten down by police or ruined, and the court whose job it is to prosecute it faces retaliation if it does so? That sounds like a criminal conspiracy to me, like organized crime. Sounds like an entire political class that likes being above their own laws.
Come to think of it, it sounds a great deal like fascism, actually.
And, let us all hope, or pray, as is your way, for the safe release of all hostages currently being held within the hole-y land, including the entire human populations of both Gaza and the West Bank.
What’s funny in a wry sort of way is that the protests aren’t even like the uprisings of 2020. They are just small groups of registered students, at good schools, saying ‘we don’t like US involvement with Israeli apartheid, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.’ And the political establishment, on both ‘sides’ of the corporate coin, is losing their shit as if the whole country is burning.
It’s because the 2020 crowd could be easily dealt with long-term within the confines of the political and economic machinery. They could pay lip service to ‘equal rights’ and ‘social justice’ and ‘democracy’ and all the other liberal anti-Trump talking points, and then they could put those marginalized communities out of sight again when they were no longer useful. Now it’s the future leaders and functionaries who are calling out the very nature of the whole system.
And, power is freaking over it. Not because the people or their presence in public are particularly dangerous, but because their message is extremely dangerous to the way this country works. America isn’t about freedom or justice or equality or opportunity. It’s a very centralized, imperial, dishonest, exploitative construct that cares nothing for life or for right and wrong. The slightest breeze can and will blow it over and expose the lie of the whole thing, and the powerful know it.
You wanna talk ‘outside agitators?’ Let’s talk outside agitators. Israel’s defense minister says that the college campus protests within the US, supposedly the world’s most powerful country and Israel’s patron state, are “antisemitic” and “inciting terrorism.” And the entire political class, its functionaries, and the security state leap on that messaging and jump to oppress their own people simply for speaking. What dirt do the Israelis have on you people? Why are you being run like assets?
I mean there are numerous reasons globally connected elites and aristocrats within the US would want the Israelis to carry out this ethnic cleansing: ideological, religious, financial, political or geopolitical, but there’s absolutely no plausible explanation for a client state to be directly calling shots at the highest levels of its patron. Anybody remember a few years back when Israeli intelligence was all up in the data of world leaders and prominent influences? Bet that stuff’s useful now 🤔