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US is unlikely to stop giving military aid to Israel − because it benefits from it
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U.S. Politicians, especially on the right, will always support Israel because, even if they don't realize it, there's bigotry involved. Israel is the one country in the Middle East that's "like us" and not run by those scary swarthy Muslims. They don't love that it's run by Jews, but Jews are closer in their mind to "normal" than Muslims. Muslims, especially after 9/11, are no longer trustworthy to American politicians. It doesn't matter that 99.999% of them have no interest in attacking the U.S., they're all the enemy. And Israel, to them, is the lone light in fighting that enemy.
It's some sick shit that even plenty of them would realize was sick if they took two seconds to think about it. Which they don't.
Americans have to tell themselves that america and it's proxies "the good ones" because any sober assessment would shatter their world view and require them to stop doing all the evil shit that they do.
It's why those pathetic cowards leaving the DNC had to cover their ears rather than hear the names of their victims.
They'll support Israel because the way we do it is another of the many infinite money hacks our MIC has created and entrenched deep into our politics. I really dislike this American trend to racialize the conflict. In virtually every way, Palestinians and Israelis, and Jews in general for that matter, are pretty indistinguishable but for small differences in otherwise very similar ethnic and religious cultures. Jewish culture, even across the diaspora, has been pretty clearly a Levantine originating one forever (not to mention the far deeper similarities between Judaism as a religion and Islam than between either and Christianity).