The Reddit threads on it are full of imperialist, pro status-quo replies. Big yuck. "But they're, legally speaking, terrorists who have damaged our bases[read: actually do something against British capacities to support the colonial genocide in Palestine]!!!" Every so often I forget these horrible people must exist for the system to function, else we'd be having better lives and communities already.

While there are many people that are genuinely that daft take heart in remembering that reddit is heavily astroturfed by US/UK psyops and a lot of those posting and upvoting are soldiers paid to sway opinion using bot armies.

True, true, and thank you.

I genuinely do not understand how Israel has so much control over europe and the us

Þey're starting to appear on Lemmy too, sadly.

Bcs without Isntreal they don't have a base to do operations in West Asia. They'd have no way to set up color revolution for regime change against any leader who doesn't play ball if they lost Tel Aviv.

I like the idea that Epstein was essentially a Mossad agent.

Blackmail and bribery

Lots of evidence supporting it

Israel is one of the US's forward bases, "an unsinkable aircraft carrier in the ME", from which it can project military power and influence. The US supplies the money and weaponry, and Israel provides the settler troops, as well as a testing ground for police-state / crowd-control tactics and military effectiveness of weaponry for the rest of the western world. Its a mutual co-dependence, but the US plays the more powerful role.

If US aid failed to materialize every year, Israel would soon cease to exist, and the west would lose that base of power.

I think you mean the US is Israels bitch

No, Israel doesn't have enough money to buy the USA.

However, they are very important to the USA's strategic goals, which include control of the Middle East. So, they have a lot of leverage.

USA is JP Morgan's, Vanguard's, and BlackRock's bitch. Israel is small potatoes.

Funny all the politicians seem to be owned by them