• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Remember all the fruitcakes saying a secret cabal of Jews runs the world? Israel is surely pumping them up and their outside influence on our politicians is making it look even worse.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      5 months ago

      That’s definitely true. I’ve seen those fruitcakes get more emboldened lately in various online discussions.

      But not even them. There is bigotry from people who don’t even realize it, people who would hate the idea that they were saying something bigoted… but they still will say “Jews” when they mean “Israel” and that is mostly Israel’s fault. And it’s those people who can be swayed by the fruitcakes because of that. Suddenly Israel isn’t the enemy, Jews are. And there are Jews everywhere. And some of them are rich and powerful.

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      5 months ago

      I’ll say it once, I’ll say it again, Hamas played the whole damn world like fucking puppets with one attack.

      I’d be absolutely shocked if the actual leaders that planned the attack are in the strip. Now any Palestenians that might have been against Hamas in the strip are stuck fighting a nuclear power in full “us vs them” mentality, Israel reacted exactly how Israel does any time it has been attacked, which is with overwhelming and vicious force now putting the country doing monstrous actions against civilians going for what looks like a full genocide, your exact point on a rival religion suddenly now giving a lot of voice to the conspiracy theories, it has created an even bigger divide in the US (but then again what doesn’t anymore) and Saudi Arabia who was working on deals with Israel has backed all the fucking way off and NATO is sitting there awkwardly trying to decide exactly where on the line it wants to walk seeing as the US can’t bring itself to go against Israel while Russia is rather uppity at the moment.

      Taking away any conversation on ethics, which is nearly impossible… I just can’t believe these leaders are this fucking short sighted.

      • theonyltruemupf@feddit.de
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        5 months ago

        This is the best comment I read on the topic on Lemmy. Thank you for making a great point and not bluntly resorting to antisemitism.