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   Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 22:49:23 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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   @guerrillarain AFAIK it's mostly political needs. Israel provides friendly access to US presence in the middle east, stores ammunition exclusively for US military use, donated land for US intelligence bases for int collection, is developing advanced military tech upgrades that are sold exclusively to the US (there was a kerfuffle when Netanyahu tried to sell some to China and Obama told him to quit it), and so on.
   
   It's the same reason why Arab nations are secretly running heavy trade relations with Israel despite publicly denouncing it.
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     lord goth of doom 🥀 (guerrillarain@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 22:49:25 JST lord goth of doom 🥀

     Does anyone have any leads, either resources or theories, on western nations' vested interest in Israel? For example, Rishi Sunak and Joseph Biden especially are taking quite hard lined stances on "Israel has a right to defend itself."

     Ignoring requests from their parties and even staff regarding calls for a ceasefire. Biden wants credit for air dropping supplies in Gaza but won't address the reason air drops are necessary. There is a vested interest in punishing students and educators, even celebrities, in the US and UK who criticize Israel, even mildly. Western media outlets, especially in the US, refuse to fact check or be critical of Israel in any meaningful way. And any Jewish protestors who speak up against Israel are maligned as antisemitic or "not really Jewish." Why?

     Do not come to me about cabals or some other antisemitic conspiracy theory. Do not use this as a justification for antisemitism. I do not believe Rishi Sunak or Joseph Biden or the government of Germany genuinely cares about either Jewish safety or the rapture.

     I'm convinced there's a personal interest, something they get out of it personally. Joseph Biden is quite literally alienating a sizeable portion of his voter base and party ahead of an election that he barely won last time— why? What does he get out of it? What does the United States get out of allocating billions of dollars annually to Israel for military aid? Why is Israel the closest ally, so much that the US would rather weaken its reputation and be maligned by other Western nations, than pose one single limitation?

     Why would the US be so unwilling to use any leverage at all?

     Is it that the Israeli government has such a tight hold on US politics (this, I doubt), or is Israel needed for something? What is so important?