droodzilla
pfm Member
There seems to be a growing body of evidence that the state of Israel has influenced foreign and domestic policy in key western states, either by political or financial means, and is now deeply embedded in the fabric of those states' administrations. So, the likes of Biden have little choice but to voice support for Israel, and provide support by way of arms shipments, etc (see also, leaders in the UK) because they are, at least to a degree, worked from behind by people operating on behalf of the state of Israel. Hence why we see grotesque support for 'Israel's right to defend itself' when there's nobody challenging that right, but merely challenging Israel's right to commit genocide in pursuance of those aims.
And the repression of campus (and other) protests all seems to align to similar misgivings, that academia is similarly beholden to interests aligned with the state of Israel.
Money, as we know, talks. And Israel is the source of a lot of the most sophisticated electronic surveillance software used by states.
What worries me, quite aside from the actual, you know, genocide which is being carried out in plain sight, is that this belief aligns fairly well with my understanding of the position Hitler took against the Jews - they had their hooks into everything and altogether too much control and influence, and needed stopping. That aside from any 'Aryan supremacy' and racial purity arguments which, IIUC, came along later. It's all getting very dark. So many things are coming to a head at once.
It's tempting to think this way, but I think it gets the causation the wrong way round.
The key point is that Israel is a strategic outpost for the West (chiefly, the US) in the Middle East. Given that strategic importance, the US bends over backwards to defend Israel's actions, keep it well supplied with weapons, intelligence, whatever.
Israel exploits its strategic importance to the US, but the main driver in the relationship is the US.
Put simply, Biden could tell Netanyahu and his genocidal government to **** off anytime, if he really wanted to.