As long as the west funds Israeli military, or offers aid in every protracted conflict in Israel, the most belligerent aspects of Israeli society will prevail. Much like Apartheid South Africa, the house of cards will topple the moment the west removes the 💰 from the equation.

I know we are naturally oriented to care about internationalism, but we need to think of ways to shut off the money in a politically intelligent way. Unfortunately the westoids do not care about Palestinians, so this needs to be about spending the money at home. We can’t argue for them to stop killing Palestinians, but we could probably argue for them to spend the money on something else at home.

This would obviously take decades or longer, but just like climate change or veganism, I feel leftists are too involved in the actually compassionate arguments that move themselves, rather than the selfish arguments that motivate most westoids.

  • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    100%. It is also a part of the larger capitalist order. Zionism offered a mechanism by which to create a Western outpost in the middle east that was used to suppress Arab Nationalist and socialist movements, as well as simply serve Western capitalist interests by opposing any state that “got in the way”.

    It continues to serve that purpose.