I don't know much about Walz so not going to comment. But I am still dumbfounded that the issue of Gaza is something that has suddenly become one of the main criteria for voting and choosing candidates. It would be one thing if there were boots on the ground but there aren't. Yes, the US is supplying weapons, but they're also doing that …
I don't know much about Walz so not going to comment. But I am still dumbfounded that the issue of Gaza is something that has suddenly become one of the main criteria for voting and choosing candidates. It would be one thing if there were boots on the ground but there aren't. Yes, the US is supplying weapons, but they're also doing that in many other far flung conflicts that these people are happy to ignore in favor of the war du jour. I do understand why but at the same time I also don't understand. To me it seems like the majority of Americans care more about groceries, housing, community safety, so why wouldn't you make your choices and run your campaigns on that rather than be beholden to a small group of people who are obsessed with a conflict that up until Oct 7th they clearly had no interest in?
Because, it's part of the bigger narrative. Which makes it more crazy. Narrative: Israel, BAD. Anything that opposes Israel GOOD.
I would bet dollars for donuts that, Americans care about more important things. And I would double down on my donuts that Americans care that there are STILL AMERICAN hostages from October 7th
One could even broader it out further….Israel: powerful, white or white adjacent; Palestine: lacking power, non-white. It’s a brand of Marxism with a racial twist.
I appreciate and respect the pragmatism of your sentiments. Here is why Gaza/Israel/Iran/Hezbollah matter to me: In my lifetime I have watched the U.S. bail on several far flung wars du jour. While these were ill-conceived and dishonorably concluded, none of the counties in question was a first-world highly developed country. The relationship between Israel and the U.S. has been longstanding and arguably as deep as our relationship to NATO. Israel is now in a very real existential crisis and if it fails, the standing of the U.S. will plummet in the eyes of our other near-peer comparable allies, e.g. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Those countries matter in ways that Afghanistan and Iraq never did. The BRICs countries are committed to converting the world away from the U.S. dollar reserve based economy. The perceived unreliability of the U.S. as an ally to a country like Israel would be a long stride toward losing our status as world economic hegemon. Not that long ago the Pound Sterling was the world's reserve currency, a status it lost as the British Empire declined. From a practical standpoint, if the U.S. Dollar is ever likewise dethroned, concerns about groceries, housing, etc. will grow exponentially. I am not Jewish, but given the way the chess board is arrayed, our fate is linked to Israel's.
This is all true. The Jews have always been the canaries in the coal mine of the west. And we have an administration that empowered and funded Iran, then told Israel this the last time they’ll come to their aid. It doesn’t bode well for anyone if Iran is free to run ripshod over the region.
Yet another reason to back Ukraine. Putin & Xi have the dollar squarely in their sites. An America that is perceived as unreliable is a danger, to itself.
Oh I agree with you - it's more that this has now becoming a grousing point on the far left to the exclusion of all else (I am centre/left of centre) and it is driving efforts to derail anything that is deemed even remotely supportive of Israel.
I don't know much about Walz so not going to comment. But I am still dumbfounded that the issue of Gaza is something that has suddenly become one of the main criteria for voting and choosing candidates. It would be one thing if there were boots on the ground but there aren't. Yes, the US is supplying weapons, but they're also doing that in many other far flung conflicts that these people are happy to ignore in favor of the war du jour. I do understand why but at the same time I also don't understand. To me it seems like the majority of Americans care more about groceries, housing, community safety, so why wouldn't you make your choices and run your campaigns on that rather than be beholden to a small group of people who are obsessed with a conflict that up until Oct 7th they clearly had no interest in?
Because, it's part of the bigger narrative. Which makes it more crazy. Narrative: Israel, BAD. Anything that opposes Israel GOOD.
I would bet dollars for donuts that, Americans care about more important things. And I would double down on my donuts that Americans care that there are STILL AMERICAN hostages from October 7th
One could even broader it out further….Israel: powerful, white or white adjacent; Palestine: lacking power, non-white. It’s a brand of Marxism with a racial twist.
I appreciate and respect the pragmatism of your sentiments. Here is why Gaza/Israel/Iran/Hezbollah matter to me: In my lifetime I have watched the U.S. bail on several far flung wars du jour. While these were ill-conceived and dishonorably concluded, none of the counties in question was a first-world highly developed country. The relationship between Israel and the U.S. has been longstanding and arguably as deep as our relationship to NATO. Israel is now in a very real existential crisis and if it fails, the standing of the U.S. will plummet in the eyes of our other near-peer comparable allies, e.g. Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Those countries matter in ways that Afghanistan and Iraq never did. The BRICs countries are committed to converting the world away from the U.S. dollar reserve based economy. The perceived unreliability of the U.S. as an ally to a country like Israel would be a long stride toward losing our status as world economic hegemon. Not that long ago the Pound Sterling was the world's reserve currency, a status it lost as the British Empire declined. From a practical standpoint, if the U.S. Dollar is ever likewise dethroned, concerns about groceries, housing, etc. will grow exponentially. I am not Jewish, but given the way the chess board is arrayed, our fate is linked to Israel's.
This is all true. The Jews have always been the canaries in the coal mine of the west. And we have an administration that empowered and funded Iran, then told Israel this the last time they’ll come to their aid. It doesn’t bode well for anyone if Iran is free to run ripshod over the region.
Yet another reason to back Ukraine. Putin & Xi have the dollar squarely in their sites. An America that is perceived as unreliable is a danger, to itself.
Oh I agree with you - it's more that this has now becoming a grousing point on the far left to the exclusion of all else (I am centre/left of centre) and it is driving efforts to derail anything that is deemed even remotely supportive of Israel.