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Israel is a Pawn in Someone Else’s Game and it’s All About Oil
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The protests keep growing and the hand of the response to the protests grows heavier. Protests on campus have inspired the authorities to arrest the protesters and then required remote learning just to keep people separated. Congress is considering a law to revoke the non-profit status of any organization that supports Palestine. Congress can’t manage TikTok so they passed a law to ban it or force the sale of it, and it’s not likely to hold up in court.
Israel labels anyone who supports Palestinians as terrorists. What was the definition of terrorism again?
How about the dictionary?
Notice how Oxford tries to qualify “unofficial” violence as terrorism. I guess that means 75 years of violence against Palestinians by the Israeli government is technically, not terrorism. On the other hand, I’ve seen several articles over the last 6 months that made the following observation:
“Israel’s attack on Gaza is punishment for the people of Gaza having voted for Hamas to govern the region.”
That sounds an awful lot like “violence and intimidation in the pursuit of a political aims”.
Most of what passes for news about Israel is really just mind conditioning so that we will accept the idea that Israel isn’t engaged in terrorism (but it is, and has been for a long time). Honestly. It’s self-defense. It’s a claim to a right to exist. The insistence on this point alone is remarkable when the death of 32,000 people in Gaza enter the debate. How do you justify the death of 32,000 for the death of 1,200 on October 7th?
I’d say it’s oil.
Israel is on track to receive a check for something like $15 billion in the latest legislation passed by the regional monopoly managers in Congress and signed by their CEO, Joe Biden. That’s in addition to the $3.8 billion the get every year.
Even after much hand-wringing over the displacement of 2.2 million people and 32,000 deaths, the legislation passed both houses easily in it’s…
