It’s why you hear mostly about Iran and the strait and nothing of Lebanon until it influenced the ceasefire.
Israel has displaced around 1M people from Lebanon and are repeating the tactics of terror it enacted in Gaza. But I’d bet that the majority of people paying attention to the Iran war every day had no idea Israel was even invading Lebanon.
Unfortunately, most people of the world are trained to not care about anything until they can see a direct material impact on their lives personally. But, that means we have a real powerful method of getting people to care.
I don’t care if the masses are directed to the right conclusions because of a moral framework or if they are directed to that same conclusion because of a material impact on their lives. They just need a means of understanding where to correctly place blame when they are inevitably impacted.
That’s the difficult part. Because historically that blame is misplaced through xenophobia, racism, gender persecution, etc.
Even now, the reactionary forces in America have anchored their outrage to the correct criticisms of Israel. However, they all seem to be using Israel as a means to ignore the same crimes of the American empire. It is interesting. It seems to be a desperate move to let American politicians and the rich capitalist off the hook and place all blame solely on Israel as if American Oligarchy is not also to blame.
It’s similar to the liberal Zionist that would blame Netanyahu as the problem and attempt to wash away the sins of Israel with him being the sole problem. But, that ship has sailed. There is no way to repair the image of Israel.
My worry through this is that the right wing narratives around Israel will be much easier to spread than the more complicated but accurate left wing reality. I worry as the right wing movements (like Tucker Carlson) become more popular the left will struggle.
The left either agrees with the right that “it’s Israel controlling America” and lose the narrative by being seen as “weak” against Israel. This will come from many in the Democratic party remaining as loyal Zionist while the Republican party will quickly label their own Zionist as “RINO” but keep them around.
I think it’s very important the left (1) Purges and shames any liberal Zionist. They should be seen as Nazis. And (2) does not give the right wing the power of the narrative they want. It is not “Israel controlling America”. It is more than that. It is the crimes of the entire ruling (Epstein) class and those in Israel and those in America need to brought to answer for their crimes.
Definitely. But I do worry about many parts of Europe that seem to think they can watch the American empire turn to fascism and think they can simply observe it from afar. European fate is very much interwoven with the American Imperialism it relies upon for its economic power.
It’s why you hear mostly about Iran and the strait and nothing of Lebanon until it influenced the ceasefire.
Israel has displaced around 1M people from Lebanon and are repeating the tactics of terror it enacted in Gaza. But I’d bet that the majority of people paying attention to the Iran war every day had no idea Israel was even invading Lebanon.
Unfortunately, most people of the world are trained to not care about anything until they can see a direct material impact on their lives personally. But, that means we have a real powerful method of getting people to care.
I don’t care if the masses are directed to the right conclusions because of a moral framework or if they are directed to that same conclusion because of a material impact on their lives. They just need a means of understanding where to correctly place blame when they are inevitably impacted.
That’s the difficult part. Because historically that blame is misplaced through xenophobia, racism, gender persecution, etc.
Even now, the reactionary forces in America have anchored their outrage to the correct criticisms of Israel. However, they all seem to be using Israel as a means to ignore the same crimes of the American empire. It is interesting. It seems to be a desperate move to let American politicians and the rich capitalist off the hook and place all blame solely on Israel as if American Oligarchy is not also to blame.
It’s similar to the liberal Zionist that would blame Netanyahu as the problem and attempt to wash away the sins of Israel with him being the sole problem. But, that ship has sailed. There is no way to repair the image of Israel.
My worry through this is that the right wing narratives around Israel will be much easier to spread than the more complicated but accurate left wing reality. I worry as the right wing movements (like Tucker Carlson) become more popular the left will struggle.
The left either agrees with the right that “it’s Israel controlling America” and lose the narrative by being seen as “weak” against Israel. This will come from many in the Democratic party remaining as loyal Zionist while the Republican party will quickly label their own Zionist as “RINO” but keep them around.
I think it’s very important the left (1) Purges and shames any liberal Zionist. They should be seen as Nazis. And (2) does not give the right wing the power of the narrative they want. It is not “Israel controlling America”. It is more than that. It is the crimes of the entire ruling (Epstein) class and those in Israel and those in America need to brought to answer for their crimes.
The US seems especially fucked politically. At least here in the UK we have greener options.
Definitely. But I do worry about many parts of Europe that seem to think they can watch the American empire turn to fascism and think they can simply observe it from afar. European fate is very much interwoven with the American Imperialism it relies upon for its economic power.