Nah, Israel doesn't own the US. Israel is just a cog in the US war machine, effectively our largest military base in the region, and helps the US spy on the world and our own citizens. That's why we'll just let them do whatever the hell, especially when - and let's be real here - what Israel is currently doing is not all that far removed from US foreign policy in general. Our "war on terror" killed potentially up to a million Iraqi civilians.
America may not have invented racism and genocide, but few things are more American then them.
To be clear this applies to America's government and leadership. I think it is quite clear the American people largely do not support this shit, at least not in this day and age.
The problem here is assuming that Israel holds sway over the US and is acting outside of US interests while we do nothing, rather than the US posturing that we're not overly happy with how things are going despite doing nothing to stop it.
Yes, AIPAC money is a huge issue in our government. But the current dynamic goes far beyond that. Israel is not some shadowy country with America around its little finger. Israel is doing what the US government wants it to do.
I fully believe that western powers, embarrassed by the situation they created in the region, are just letting Israel "rip off the bandaid" as far as they are concerned. Just get the genocide done, take Palestine over, and be done with it rather than have to address the colonial genocide currently going on, the apartheid, and the reality that Israel as an ethno state just simply shouldn't exist. Palestine and Israel should simply be one, truly democratic country inhabited by Jews and Arabs alike with equal rights for all.
A two state solution is just a request to return to this barbaric status quo of occupation.
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u/FuckStompIsGay Apr 29 '24
You mean the United States of Israel is a colony of Israel