by exploited » Tue May 15, 2018 2:53 pm
Perhaps you were joking, but based on what you've said when you're not joking, I don't see much of a distinction.
For a person unwilling to debate the intricacies of the Israel-Palestine conflict, you seem awfully willing to come down decisively in Israel's favour, even going so far as to make jokes about approximately 4.5 million stateless people living in ghettos.
The simple truth of the matter is that President Trump dumped the Iran deal and moved the embassy, so Israel took that as tacit permission to engage in various atrocities. And rightfully so. American royal family members attended the opening ceremony and smiled broadly, in defiance of sixty years of international norms, while two thousand Palestinians were wounded and sixty were killed because they approached the boundaries of their ghettos. Meanwhile Israel is drastically expanding its involvement in the Syrian civil war, which I'm sure will bring lots of stability to the country.
You can make jokes if you want, but I really don't see what is funny about the situation. Putin, having established the greatest intelligence operation in human history (ongoing in plain sight), is constructing a geopolitical narrative that undermines the entire Western world, benefits the Russian economy, destroys European-American relations, and inflames the entire Middle East to his immediate benefit. And here we are talking about Natives and circles, you defending a status quo that is being actively destroyed. I mean even when given the opportunity to change, you revert back to these nonsensical American norms about Israel.