6 hours ago
Why? The same reason South Africa put on a media blitz during apartheid.
When your country gets worldwide news for atrocities it is committing, leadership in those countries will do anything to change public opinion. (Except stop committing atrocities, I suppose.)
7 hours ago
"the Israel lobby and us foreign policy", look it up.
6 hours ago
Thanks for the recommendation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...
> Alan Dershowitz opined that criticizing the Israel lobby promoted a charged debate about what constitutes antisemitic conspiracy theorizing.[31] Early drafts of this were sent to Jeffrey Epstein; at the time, Dershowitz was Epstein's lawyer during a child sex trafficking case.
6 hours ago
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7 hours ago
At the same time, the US president is interfering in the elections in Israel.
7 hours ago
the more consequential country you are, the more pressure from inside and outside on getting particular government elected. for US that's entire world... Remember Russian bots on Twitter?
7 hours ago
It’s more about being manipulable, not consequential. They want a strong position for a president that they can control. It’s just plain good strategy.
6 hours ago
7 hours ago
Wow, this was unheard of before 2016. This is real, foreign, election interference.
7 hours ago
This was absolutely happening before 2016. It might have been unheard of, to you, prior to then. But countries have tried to change the results of US elections since forever.
6 hours ago
Qatar sponsored river to the sea-prople have actually tried to take over several countries were they where accepted as refugees and guests. Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and now france and england. Always with enormous fanfare in the media. Its nice from israel to try spare the us and europe this bout of fanaticism. With such allies who needs enemies?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Palestinians_from...
And of course lies about what they did during the civil war in the wikki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Lebanon
Spoilers: They murdered christians and used the host country to wage guerrilla warfare on issrael, murdering southern villages in the process
10 hours ago
Paywalled
10 hours ago
Weird, not for me. Here's an archive: https://archive.is/aiGLX
9 hours ago
Thanks for the link, I see my mistake now. When I got the red box that said "This post is for paid subscribers." I assumed there was more to follow.