11mo ago

Don't threaten me with a good time

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Can someone materially explain to me why Israel is so important to American bourgeois interests? I understand they’re the cornerstone of US foreign policy or whatever the phrase is, but why?
Are they just an opposition to Iran, who’s less friendly with the US and influences key trade markets? Is that all it boils down to?
- Israel is important for controlling the movement of people (i.e. labor) from Africa into East Asia and, eventually, Europe.
  Israel is important for controlling trade in the Red Sea (although Ansar Allah has shown Israel's weakness here)
  Israel is important as a live testing ground for border technology, surveillance technology, and prison technology (although Hamas showed Israel's weakness here on Oct 7th)
  Israel is important as an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East, allowing for power projection into both North Africa and the Arabian peninsula and the rest of West Asia. They (along with the Saudi kingdom to a lesser extent) are critical for controlling a huge chunk of the world's oil and gas supplies (and disciplining OPEC if ever necessary)
  Israel is important for the production and reproduction of whiteness. Israel acts as a release valve where the West can encourage its Jews to live, away from the metropoles. Israel, itself, transforms a historically very radical ethnic group into white people.
  
  Israel, itself, transforms a historically very radical ethnic group into white people.
  Again, and I think we don't push this talking point nearly enough: Zionism is a fundamentally anti-Semitic project.
- the zionist colony acts as an imperial outpost to destabilize and weaken a region that is critical for a key strategic resource (petroleum), it's a central pillar of US hegemony
Isntreal about to fall and they launch their nukes at europe and the amerikkka would be a hilarious way to end this charade called "Western Civilization"

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