Israel Is Never Defending Itself - And The U.S. Is Never Defending Israel

Israel Is Never Defending Itself - And The U.S. Is Never Defending Israel

August 3, 2024

ISRAEL and U.S. IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

"Forget Russia, the real threat to America comes from Israel and the Israel Lobby." ~Julian Assange

In the last few days Israel has assassinated leaders in multiple neighboring nations, assassinated multiple journalists, deliberately destroyed a water facility in Gaza during a polio outbreak, and had riots defending the right of IDF soldiers to rape Palestinian prisoners. Clearly the sort of country we should all want to send our sons and daughters to go fight and die for.

Western officials are always babbling about Israel's “right to defend itself", which sparks all kinds of debates about whether an occupying force does in fact have a right to defend itself under international law. What these debates overlook is the fact that Israel ISN'T "defending itself." It's pure offense. Pure attack. Israel is always the aggressor.

Israel is never "defending itself," and the U.S. is never “defending Israel". Both of these nations exist in a constant state of attack and aggression, which is then framed as “defending" by propaganda spin.

The U.S. sows violence and division in the middle east as a matter of policy. Israel's very creation was an act of aggression upon the people this apartheid ethnostate was dropped on top of, and it has been the aggressor ever since. Other nations and groups in the middle east have been defending themselves against those aggressions. They are the only parties in all this who can claim to be “defending" anything.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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