That’s the question.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    1. It let’s the US government waste taxpayer money on military hardware to make the billionaire class even richer. Money that would be far better spent on US taxpayers.

    2. It panders to evangelicals, who need Israel to exist in order to fulfill their Book of Relations, End of The World, apocalyptic jerk-off fantasies.

  • issastrayngewerldkbin@kbin.social
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    2 months ago

    This is the question of the century. Maybe decades from now, there will be a book, then a movie. My only guess is that they have something dirty on our politicians. Something so egregious that they are willing to sacrifice almost everything to keep it quiet.

      • Wanderer@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        That seems based on statistics there are some serious breaches of racist hiring policies.

        Yet why can’t people talk about it? If you posted that for Irish descendants no one would have an issue complaining about their dodgy hiring procedures.

        That’s data driven and questions should be raised.

  • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s been a stance the US has had since the inception of Israel after ww2. Back then, the US had significantly more christians and christians tend to view jews as important because the bible says israel is where the end of days is supposed to start. After that decline, Israel has been viewed as an important ally for military reasons.

    • BmeBenji@lemm.eeOP
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      2 months ago

      This is what I was taught when I was a kid. Somewhere in the Bible I think it says “blessed are the allies of Israel” or something like that but that seems like a terrible reason to arm and fund a genocide so it seemed like there had to be a different reason

      • toasteecup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        This will be one of the few times that having a bible thumping bitch of a step mother will come in handy. That’s definitely a verse but the story of end of days or “The Rapture” goes suchly

        The antichrist will return and work to reunite the peoples of the desert, while doing so, they will also rebuild the lost temple of israel and once complete will sit upon the throne at which point the great armies shall unite in the middle east in a furious bloodshed. The antichrist will bring peace to that fight and demand subserience from all man. At that point, the rapture will happen and then the final prophecies shall begin.

        For christians, this is seen as a good thing as they will be raptured and the good humans shall live in god’s final kingdom. For any of this to happen, Israel needs to exist.

        In short, dogma as fuck.

  • Redfox8@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    It amazes me that no-one ever seems to say (not that I have seen, at least)…Isreal is a western, democratic state with nuclear weapons in the middle east.

    It’s basically a major power base for the west in the predominantly arab part of the world.

    Anything else is a side arguement as far as I’m concerned.