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The purpose of the war in Israel is to ensure that nothing will fundamentally change
The subtext of Israel’s war against Palestine is that Israel isn’t democratic and it doesn’t actually promote democracy.
Every so often, I’m reminded of something that Joe Biden said to donors as a candidate for the office of President of the United States. In a room full of rich donors, loaded with money taken from the labors of other people, Joe Biden said that if elected, “Nothing would fundamentally change.”
Remember, we’re talking about someone who, as Vice President, saw to it that none of the CEOs of the largest banks in the country, would ever see a day in jail after the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008. Biden helped to promote policies that shipped millions of good manufacturing jobs overseas over the last 40 years — probably the largest contributing factor leading to the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008.
Since he made that comment to inform his donors that nothing would fundamentally change if he was elected, I’ve been using that as the context of everything that he’s done since he took office. I think his unrestrained support of Israel is a reflection of his attitude that nothing should change. The war in Israel is to me about keeping things the same.
The war in Israel is about keeping the status quo. It’s about ensuring that the wealthy can keep all the gains they made at the expense of the rest of us, as a result of their influence on public policy. The war is about maintaining regional monopolies that support the wealthy. I like to think of Congress as an organization of high level managers for the regional monopolies of America.
The war in Israel is about ensuring the dominance of religious influence in our national government. The war is about ensuring that the people in Israel can keep and make permanent, their occupation of the land they stole.
When a powerful politician assures his wealthy donors that nothing will fundamentally change, he is admitting that we do not live in a democracy. He is admitting that the most powerful people in the country will retain their inherited power. He is admitting that he will fight any democratic attempts to…
