People would have much less trouble with disagreements over Israel Palestine if we didn’t fund one of them so heavily.
Don’t get me wrong. There’s a lot of ideological disagreements over this conflict. A lot of people believe for example, that individual citizens claiming territory that not legally theirs or having differing views on warfare either way are something that needs to be squashed. That wouldn’t necessarily change.
What I think would change though is that because of the money we have a sort of paternalistic relationship to Israel, whether we have a president giving unconditional or conditional funding. So, if someone says “defund Israel,” it’s basically treated as if you’re asking someone to disown their child, which is why we see such strong backlash in a country famed for its ability to agree to disagree.
Like anyone who has a basic knowledge of world history understands that claiming land as yours that isn’t actually yours isn’t even close to unique to the Levant in the slightest, it’s just more scrutinized with respect to this region because of said paternalistic relationship.
I oppose funding Ukraine too for example but don’t need to justify ourselves as much for that position.
There’s an argument to be said that Israel would be much more aggressive without the foreign funding, but that’s not our business. Our business is simply the fact that it would be a less divisive issue stateside and that’s all that is our business.
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