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In reply to the discussion: Why do Americans tolerate letting Israel dictate our Israel policy? [View all]countryjake
(8,554 posts)so who can blame any of them for believing it? The USA has carefully crafted the dehumanization of Palestinians for many many decades, so that only a fearsome image of them prevails. They are the easiest people of the world to demonize simply because they are such a small population and if one happens to go berserk to seek revenge or justice, all Palestinians will be condemned for that action. And that's propaganda by our media, primarily, not Israel's. It's been that way throughout my entire life.
If you think that our government backs Israel because it's "a tiny country leading us around by the nose", you need to examine the importance that our own government places on any Middle East interests that we have in the region. We keep massive military provisions stored all over Israel, for our OWN use, if necessary, and the convenience of it's very location makes the nation an extension of the USA's military industrial complex.
The USA uses Israel as continuing protection of our own national security, not the other way around.
When I notice or hear others saying things like "Israel says jump, USA jumps", I immediately begin to wonder if there may be closeted bigotry or anti-semitism hidden behind such phrases. Normally, I'll simply chalk it up to naivety and a basic ignorance of the USA's history of imperialism, but the wariness remains in the back of my mind, and that feeling has been on red-alert this past month, as both Israel and the USA carry out this latest destruction and massacre of Occupied Palestine.
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