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[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (42 children)

Without a Palestinian state and a multi-national presence to enforce it there will never be peace. The motive for attacks will remain.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (70 children)

Imagine how much better the world would be if Jews migrated to the US instead of directly in the middle of people who hate them the most.

Zionism is a plague that is responsible for untold damage.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean that kind of happened already. There's a reason why the United States has the second highest Jewish population in the world, less only than Israel and not by much. Rampant anti semitisim in Europe among other reasons drove many to emigrate to the US. Between 1880 and 1914 alone, 2 million Ashkenazi Jewish people immigrated to the United States to escape ethnic cleansing pogroms in Eastern Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_United_States

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Israel doesn't give a shit. They were only interested in normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia to keep them away and deal with them later. Now that they've ripped their masks off and kicked the ethnic cleansing process into high gear, there's no point in normalizing relations. If Saudi Arabia has a problem with it, they'll be "regime changed". We've hit a point of no return.

[–] thecrotch 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If the west was going to regime change Saudi Arabia they would have done it after 9/11, which was planned financed and perpetrated by Saudis. We invaded Afghanistan and Iraq instead, two enemies of Saudi Arabia that had nothing to do with it. Israeli and Saudi dick are equally down America's throat and I honestly don't know which one NATO would side with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Saudi Arabia is a well-tamed bitch. There was no need to go after Saudi Arabia after 9/11 because they were already fully under control. Nah, a tragedy like that is best capitalized by taking down "rogue" enemy states like Iraq. Just look at the countries that the US has involved itself in, including Syria, Libya, Somalia, etc... these are countries that weren't playing ball. It's looking like Iran's turn is soon. After all these countries have been fully taken care of, the US can take down the tamed bitches like Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Basic divide and conquer, oldest trick in the book.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (11 children)

To change the saudi "regime" you have to change the society itself because it is a tribal society. It will take at least one or two more generation to create any fundamental change in the kingdom.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's terrible that they're the ones on the right side of history on this. It shows how low the US is willing to go to protect its ME interests. Literally morally lower than Saudi.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's kinda unusual for Saudi Arabia to stick up for Palestinians, isn't it? Am I wrong about that?

ETA: After a little reading, it seems that I am wrong about that but "it's complicated."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

SA has been working on a two-state solution for a while now, that was what Kushner was supposed to be working on during the Trump administration when he wound up getting a loan of $5 billion from the Saudis, however Qatar is the country where HAMAS leadership are hiding out.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Who cares? Saudis are a fundamentalist theocracy built on oil money

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Anyone who wants peace in the Near East as there's no way around the Saudis and their influence. They're a diplomatic heavyweight in general: Within the Arab world by tribal whatnot, elsewhere mostly fuelled by oil.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The Saudis are never on the right side of anything. They do not give a shit about Palestinians and they never did - this just how they attempt to be a thorn in the side of the US.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Israel has an excellent opportunity to make peace and be the economic engine of growth for the region. But the mullahs in Iran, Hamas, and present day Likud are all made for each other

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yup. Israel desperately needs to hold new elections. If necessary, Gantz should threaten to collapse the coalition government if that's what it takes. Israel needs sensible leaders like Benny Gantz, Gadi Eisenkot, Yair Lapid, and Gallant who actually understand that while it's necessary to exterminate Hamas, the only way of ensuring long-term peace and stability in the region is to reach a political solution with a pathway towards Palestinian self-rule.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My understanding is that there are some interesting demographic effects at play in Israel - their percentage of heavily religious population has been increasing and is therefore getting more and more political control.

The ultra-orthadox (I think this is the term) Jews are also exempt from military service I believe.

This is/could lead to increased internal instability in the coming years/decades.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The CIA should reverse these trends and push liberal internationalism. Which is supposed to be their speciality by now

We can't have a nuclear armed state run by religious zealots in the middle east. Especially one that we are seemingly rapidly losing control over

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