Unnecessary escalation of what?! From when? It’s not an escalation but an outright illegal attack for absolutely no reason and the US is gonna be Israel’s bitch again

I dunno, the US should pay reparations to Iraq for their false invasion over WMDs, but instead, any oil money Iraq makes is held in US banks and only accessible via US government approval.

No, belief is not required. Again, see example of Jewish secular.

I was wrong on one thing - he was in Hong Kong, yes, but he was already boarding his flight when it was revoked.

On June 14, the U.S. Justice Department filed criminal charges against Snowden in federal district court.3 The following day, the Justice Department formally requested that Hong Kong authorities issue a provisional arrest warrant for Snowden.4 Eight days later, on the very morning—Hong Kong time—that his passport was revoked, Mr. Snowden was able to board a flight to Moscow.

https://yalelawjournal.org/essay/citizenship-passports-and-the-legal-identity-of-americans

Here’s the official statement from Hong Kong

https://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201306/23/P201306230476.htm

Mr Edward Snowden left Hong Kong today (June 23) on his own accord for a third country through a lawful and normal channel.

The US Government earlier on made a request to the HKSAR Government for the issue of a provisional warrant of arrest against Mr Snowden. Since the documents provided by the US Government did not fully comply with the legal requirements under Hong Kong law, the HKSAR Government has requested the US Government to provide additional information so that the Department of Justice could consider whether the US Government’s request can meet the relevant legal conditions. As the HKSAR Government has yet to have sufficient information to process the request for provisional warrant of arrest, there is no legal basis to restrict Mr Snowden from leaving Hong Kong.

And before people say China collusion, this is 2013, when HK was still autonomous.

Oof lots of misinformation.

• He was in Russia when his passport was revoked, not Hong Kong.

• Russia held him at the airport transit terminal for 39 days, so your assumption of sending him elsewhere is wrong.

• He said that the media had a responsibility to report on facts rather than fearmongering before the invasion. After the invasion he publicly said he was against it.

Yes, tribalism can exist without belief and can even be described as an ethnicity in itself (like Judaism). Unless you willingly glossed over the fact that someone can be secular but still have cultural/familial ties towards the tribe.

It’s not a very smart thing to oversimplify with thought terminating exercises.

That’s the general attitude of a majority of Israelis, not just the Far Right.

If you sit at a hipster café in Tel Aviv and start talking to a random person, 20 minutes later, this person, drinking a matcha latte and speaking perfect English, will start explaining to you that those [Palestinian] children will grow up to be terrorists, so it’s okay to kill them.

Andrey X Independent journalist and activist in Palestine

You must be from the US applying that lens and reducing the topic to such a simplistic lens that has been propagated by both the US and Israeli governments only.

Many abrahamic worshippers believe these are the prophesized end times, especially in Israel.

Nope, only US Evangelicalism specifically preaches this ridiculous type of world-ending prophecy.

Zionism was an inherently secular movement, but to align all of the other Jewish organizations under their movement with a stronger argument, they’ve defined their goals to be “jewish” in identity AND religion. Otherwise an African location would have been a more serious option.

It’s not religious belief that is driving conflict in the middle east, it is religious tribalism (and of course imperialism). And there’s a world of difference.

Because someone could be secular and of that religion, but it doesn’t mean that they would escape harm from other tribes or not have some patronage and loyalty to their tribe. Like Al-Assad in Syria, which as a country was religiously secular by law but was heavily biased towards the Aalawites.

They’ve already annexed more of Syria beyond the Golan heights recently.

Guess who provides Myanmar with weapons and also uses the double-tap strikes?

Genociders will support other genociders

Colombia’s previous president accused Israel of meddling in their recent elections where a right wing trump supporter got elected, but I doubt the incoming president would bother investigating and they probably don’t have the same resources to look into it either.

Washington Institute is a pro-israel think tank.

Their statements now are not neutral statements/objective facts. They’re literally advisory statements to dictate strategy that would benefit Israel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), also known simply as The Washington Institute (TWI), is a pro-Israel American think tank based in Washington, D.C.,[3][4] focused on the foreign policy of the United States in the Near East.

Russia gave Syria S-300 and S-400 systems which could supposedly knock out some of the most advanced bomber jets, yet not one Israeli fighter was downed over Syria. And this is before F-35s existed.

Like you said, Israel playing both sides and both sides know it too.

When has the federal reserve influenced foreign policy then or even domestic policy? How exactly does it help Israel?

You’ve drawn a parallel…OK and then what? How does the majority of them being of Jewish background (and that’s assuming 1- they’re religious not just of the ethnicity and 2- that they’re Zionist) drive your point home exactly?

He’s playing both sides so he can always come out on top.

Especially since there’s a growing Republican base that’s against war and against funding going to Israel

I don’t think your method of open ended questions when pointing out some Jewish people as heads of banks (Rothschilds and heads of the federal reserve) hides from your antisemitism.

Example: A good portion of C-suite executives in tech are of indian descent. If they decide to start sending money to Modi or funding parties in the US because of their belief in Hindutva, doesn’t mean that it’s a global conspiracy or that “they control tech”.

They’re just rich assholes funding a fascist movement - not to mention the other rich assholes that put money behind movements like that for their own enrichment or ideas (like Zionist Christians who are a much bigger population than Jewish Zionists and very wealthy).

Wealthy benefactors will put down money for a cause they like, bad or good. And if it happens to be a good ROI, then that’s all the more reason they’d do it.

Making blanket statements of an ethnicity is racist. Especially when structured power dynamics exist and are very obvious.

Most of the Zionist immigration actually occurred before the Holocaust. In fact, the Zionists were actively refusing Jewish refugees because they would have “tainted” the movement.

https://palestinenexus.com/articles/eugenicism

From the late 19th century through the 1950s, Zionist leaders adopted a selective immigration policy designed to exclude ‘undesirable’ Jews.

Menahem Sheinkin described them as “miserable paupers, depressed and patched up, with bundles like rag-merchants, the poorest of the poor, who could not possibly be a blessing to the country.”

By the early 1900s, an office was established in Jaffa to screen Jews hoping to settle in Palestine. Menachem Sheinkin and Arthur Ruppin reviewed application letters sent from prospective migrants and told 61% of them not to come, primarily because they were too impoverished.

I sympathize with those who suffered due to antisemitism over millenia and during the holocaust. But I have zero sympathy for fascist colonials who created founding myths based off the suffering of others that they actively turned away.

When did they ever have it?

The US (and Republicans more specifically) has been threatening the ICC for a long time. Many sanctions were placed on ICC prosecutors and judges before the Epstein files were even a thing.

What banking system does Israel control and brag about?