• glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    The US has an outsized influence on Israel. The US bankrolls Israel, and provides weapons. The US provides $4 billion annually for Israel to buy weapons, guaranteed cash for the military. The US is the main trading partner with Israel and provides loans with really low rates. US firms open factories in Israel (like Intel) via direct subsidies to boost the Israel economy. Edit: this was just ran today https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/israel-weapons-sales-loophole

    The US is clearly in a proxy war with many factions in the Middle East via Israel, as the US props up and enables Israel. The US literally was in a proxy war with the Soviet Union when Israel and Egypt were duking it out. Israel being the US’s proxy in the Middle East did not end just because the Soviet Union ended.

    The US (and Biden) has major responsibility, is directly linked, and could exercise a lot of the influence the US pays for to halt the genocide of the Palestinians.

    • TheControlled@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, I know all that stuff. Ally ≠ genocide by America and half that shit you said isn’t even relevant. USSR proxy war? And? Israel was a weapons supplier and mule for the US’s. So was Egypt. What are you on about?

      Still, some responsibility, yeah.