Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoBernie Sanders calls on Congress to block funding to Israelwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up11.06K
arrow-up11.06Kexternal-linkBernie Sanders calls on Congress to block funding to Israelwww.theguardian.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square132fedilink
minus-squareSabin10@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up92·11 months agoBut without Isreal as an intermediary, how are politicians supposed to funnel billions of dollars to their friends in the defense industry?
minus-squareVikingHippie@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up41·11 months agoAnd without letting Israel demolish and “resettle” Gaza, how are they supposed to get their hands on all of that sweet offshore gas that the Palestinians aren’t letting them have anymore?
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·11 months agoYou’d think this would make the oil industry actually push for an independent Palestine, but oh well.
minus-squareVikingHippie@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoNah, they know that an independent Palestine wouldn’t play ball. The Israeli government would after stealing the territory, though.
minus-square🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·11 months agoAnd how can they justify a proxy genocide against Islam without Israel?
minus-squareperviouslyiner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·11 months agoStill plenty of kit needed in Ukraine.
minus-squarecaptainlezbian@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoEurope is rearming and we could arm our Kurdish allies. Or we could keep selling tanks to cops. Heck maybe suburban Iowa could use some police owned AA guns.
minus-squaretwelve20two @slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoEasy: we just start a proxy war somewhere else. Throw a dart on a map of the global south, and you’ll probably be ok.
But without Isreal as an intermediary, how are politicians supposed to funnel billions of dollars to their friends in the defense industry?
And without letting Israel demolish and “resettle” Gaza, how are they supposed to get their hands on all of that sweet offshore gas that the Palestinians aren’t letting them have anymore?
You’d think this would make the oil industry actually push for an independent Palestine, but oh well.
Nah, they know that an independent Palestine wouldn’t play ball. The Israeli government would after stealing the territory, though.
And how can they justify a proxy genocide against Islam without Israel?
Still plenty of kit needed in Ukraine.
Europe is rearming and we could arm our Kurdish allies.
Or we could keep selling tanks to cops. Heck maybe suburban Iowa could use some police owned AA guns.
Easy: we just start a proxy war somewhere else. Throw a dart on a map of the global south, and you’ll probably be ok.
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