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So…now that U.S. taxpayers have been forced to sacrifice billions of dollars to arm Israel’s genocide, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that AIPAC has spent hundreds of millions of dollars interfering in U.S. elections to sabotage popular progressive candidates, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that Americans are asked to entrust their future and safety to a merged U.S.-Israel military being run increasingly by A.I., does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that nearly all major U.S. politicians and all major U.S. media have caved in on validating and normalizing apartheid and war crimes, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So…now that hundreds of Palestinian journalists have been murdered with U.S. munitions, and U.S. corporate media has been even more thoroughly censored on the issue of Palestinian liberation than Israeli media, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that US college students have been physically beaten and expelled for not wanting their tuitions to fund a genocide, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that the lesson of the Holocaust has been changed from “never again commit genocide” to “never again resist or protest or mention genocide,” does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that rape, torture and genocide are no longer crimes as long as you have a well-armed military, and Jews are expected to make common cause with Trump and the extreme right, in supporting the dismantling of international laws, institutions, and frameworks governing the use of force, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that Americans are asked to believe that the genocidal policy of a handful of rich lawmakers is the same thing as a 3000-year-old religion, and the definition of “anti-Semitism” has been downgraded from “hatred of Jews” to “democratic participation in U.S. policy in the Middle East,” does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that the Anti Defamation League, and the entire U.S. mainstream discourse around anti-Semitism, has focused its attention away from the far-right racists who actually commit the overwhelming majority of anti-Semitic violence and defamation, and onto college students, Tik-Tok users, and other anti-genocide protestors, many of whom are Jews, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that the threats against U.S. voters by Zionist lawmakers are becoming increasingly vicious, desperate, and fascistic, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

So...now that Israel is being encouraged by the U.S. to break every ceasefire, expand her illegal wars and settlements, and Israelis are asked to expose themselves to more violent retaliation, for the sake of U.S. corporate profits, U.S. hegemony, and Trump family real estate deals, does the world view the state of Israel in a more positive light? Do Jews around the world feel more secure? Were these really Biden's or Trump's or Netanyahu's goals?

The U.S. does not control the state of Israel, nor vice versa. They are one state. Perhaps more accurately they are one multinational corporation, with Biden, Trump and Netanyahu as their policy wing. They are one consortium of weapons manufacturers, fossil fuel corporations, Big Tech, and individual corrupt lawmakers, trying to get as money as they can before the whole scheme falls apart in revolution, world war, or economic collapse.

Biden, Trump, and Netanyahu’s goal is Jewish and Israeli insecurity, fear and hatred. This insecurity has been weaponized and monetized. The economic sectors profiting from this destruction and erasure of non-Jews have known all along that Jewish and Israeli insecurity, fear and hatred were essential to their profit margins.

The money taxpayers “give to Israel” ends up in the pockets of U.S. arms dealers. The Biden-Trump-Netanyahu program we are all living through is not about a selfless country helping create a safe homeland for Jews. It’s about a collapsing empire extracting as much money as it can, while it still can. That’s what people who want to fund or invest in Israel stand for, whether they like it or not.

Investing in Israel is not a safe bet. To suggest it is is an affront to common sense, no matter how many politicians are bribed to say that it is. Israel is the center of a global controversy. Its program of genocide and permanent war is no more sustainable than was slavery in the U.S. This is scorched earth and last-ditch profiteering.

The billions of dollars U.S. taxpayers are told that they owe to Israel to slaughter non-Jews is of course only half of the total bill. The other half will be the reparations those taxpayers will have to pay once the genocide and invasions inevitably fail.

That the U.S. and Israel’s war crimes will inevitably fail is not due to anti-Semitism. They will fail because while the human race knows that there are some among us who are greedy and barbaric enough to wage permanent war and commit genocide and other atrocities, most humans have a conscience and are predictably disgusted.

Asking Israel to do the U.S.’s imperial dirty work is anti-Semitic. Equating thousands of years of Jewish religion, culture and history with a relatively new genocidal government in Israel is a renunciation and erasure of Jewish religion, culture and history. Trump, Biden, Harris, Netanyahu, Blinken, the Clintons, Raytheon, Palantir, and AIPAC are all anti-Semitic racists.

Israel couldn’t keep up its genocide and invasions another week without the U.S. taxpayer’s money. Their bombs and bullets would simply run out. That’s when the long, slow healing process can be allowed to begin. Jews will become safer as result. Stop arming and funding and investing in the state of Israel and her program of genocide and permanent war. Stop defending and staying silent on this 78-year campaign of violence and lawlessness, being fraudulently committed in the name of a 3000-year-old religion.

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