No. The real reason is to keep an ally in the very Muslim middle east and because they believe that it's a prerequisite for the rapture.
At this point, I don't think anyone involved believes in a loving God, or even a God that will punish sinners. Neither of them would want this.
They wouldn't think a holy war sinful. Not when done for their pick of the almighty litter. On that, the three involved parties agree.
ah, someone who understands why humans do this
good to see these days.
it feels bleak at times
and im sure the oil deposits sweeten the deal too
Linus Torvalds - ban Israel developers from linux
Israel isn't knee deep in an information war against the US and Europe, is it? The ban didn't happen because of the war against Ukraine. It happened because of the ongoing cyber war against democracy.
Israel doesn't currently have sanctions pending against them that the Finnish government has a vested interest to enforce.
They should, don't get me wrong, but I don't believe Linus' decision is rooted in politics - they'd have to vet each contribution anyway.
Israel isn't knee deep in an information war against the US and Europe, is it?
Um, isn't it? If anything, they are worse than Russia on this count.
Dude, be fuqin real.
Oh, shit, the Mossad would absolutely do that, huh
A unified and stable middle east would be and would have been a global superpower with the ability to influence independent control over major global trade routes and energy supply.
This is why the Israel is and has been imperative to U.S. foreign policy.
Money, guns and oil baaaabbbbyyy. Everything else is propaganda and distractions
Thanks, Dr. Rockzo!
Zionism is inherently racist. This movement has nothing to do with Judaism. One of the greatest misdeeds of the Netanyahu regime - tho it pales in comparison to their other misdeeds - is to present their inhumane actions as the Jews' point of view. Israel's strategy in the last couple of year was to portray all completely justified criticism of Zionism, and especially of the state of Israel's inhumane approach to its realization, as anti-Semitism. There is no truth in this whatsoever. Zionism is not Judaism and the state of Israel does not stand for the Jews as a religious group - these days Israel only stands for a criminal regime that murders helpless people and breaks international law. This is not about religion, but about crimes against humanity committed by a sovereign state, by Israel, their criminal regime and all their henchmen.
Religion is certainly a powerful weapon in politics which is especially obvious with the trump situation. I agree that Israel don't represent them but I could definitely see how they can use it for their own agenda and some religious people will happily support them and their propaganda.
Don't I deserve to seize my childhood home, or the one I sold last week? no anti-semitic replies please.
The jewish people have never wholly owned that area. Persians, Arabs, and many other races have also always lived there. It’s literally in the bible.
Also remember that the bronze age Jews were not at all special among the tribes of the area, their story about themselves is aggrandizing fiction that all the tribes did, it's just the Jews' stories survived and became popular
Also bronze age. Those that left left so long ago, the only right they have to the place is military might and the legal right given based on lobbying and the racism of the law makers in question.
Iron age, the Hebrew age of myth was set during the bronze age and in the immediate period of the bronze age collapse. Moses was bronze age, david was post bronze age collapse, the first diaspora was during the early Iron age, and the second diaspora was during antiquity.
Sorry if im being anal about it but one of the few good things about the old testament is that it tracks the evolution from bronze to iron pretty well, also Cyrus the great works as a solid historical reference point. But yeah there was about 700 years between the end of the bronze age and the end of the first diaspora, and about a thousand years to the second diaspora. For reference the Roman empire still existed seven hundred years ago.
Thanks, I'm not great on biblical history, so corrections and detail are welcome
Oh I aint either, but certain groups and events mentioned work as solid reference points. The Philistines were most like Bronze age Greek settlers set up by the Egyptians to work as a march for example. I just know a lot about the Bronze age collapse and the Bronze age. Also when I say set during its in the same way Red dead 2 is set during the late 1800s, Moses at best is the faint memory of a legendary story that was mythologized similar to King Arthur.
I think support for Israel is based on their sharing three principle values of the west: liberalism, democracy, & capitalism.
Some neu Nazis support Israel too, they want a place to send the Jewish population from their country too.
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