• gnuhaut@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Biden said something like: “If there was no Israel, we’d have to invent it.”

      The US loves having a highly militarized, violent, totally amoral and 100% US-dependent proxy next to all those oil fields. The last thing the US wants is peace in the middle east. This is just divide-and-conquer 101.

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        1 year ago

        I straight up thought you were mixing up that other adage about like, “if Jews did not exist, bigots would make them” but uh. Yeah. Apparently Biden did say that at a recent summit. Presumably as a statement of America needing a strategic partner in the Middle East. But even still, that’s gonna get an oof out of me.