And lots of people join, get messed up, and then are denied proper healthcare by the underfunded VA system.

But even if the military was great for the people enlisting, it wouldn't change the fact that they are joining one of the most rapacious, lawless, and brutal militaries in the world.

In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. [wikipedia]

Charles Littlejohn is a hero

It's not just Jewish lobbyists. Arguably more important is the Zionist Christian fundamentalists in the US who think they are hastening the rapture and the apocalypse.

The thing about voting for the lesser evil is that they actually have to be less evil.

Sleep walking to defeat

Israel's own law states that it is an ethnostate. One of it's foundational laws reads:

1.  The State of Israel

a) Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people in which the state of Israel was established.

b) The state of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it actualizes its natural, religious, and historical right for self-determination.

c) The actualization of the right of national self-determination in the state of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.

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7. The state views Jewish settlement as a national value and will labor to encourage and promote its establishment and development.

Furthermore, two million Palestinians live within pre-1967 Israel borders with the ability to vote. Three million Palestinians live under military occupation in the West Bank. Two million Palestinians survive in what was an open air prison and now is one big death camp. All Jews, including those in the West Bank, enjoy full rights.

More details of the racial inequities:

Arab families are greatly over-represented among Israel’s poor: over half of Arab families in Israel are classified as poor, compared to an average poverty rate of one-fifth among all families in Israel. Arab towns and villages are heavily over-represented in the lowest socio-economic rankings, and the unrecognized Arab Bedouin villages in the Naqab are the poorest communities in the state

Direct state policy measures to reduce poverty disproportionately target Jewish citizens, with the result that poverty rates have fallen far more sharply among Jewish citizens than among their Arab counterparts, and inequalities have consequently persisted.

Admissions committees operate in around 700 agricultural and community towns and filter out Arab applicants, on the basis of their “social unsuitability”, from future residency in these towns. The operation of admissions committees contributes to the institutionalization of racially- segregated towns and villages throughout the state and perpetuates unequal access to the land.

The Jewish National Fund (JNF)—a body with quasi-state authority that operates solely for the interests of the Jewish people and controls 13% of the land in the state—continues to wield decisive influence over land policy in Israel, having been allocated six of a total of 13 members of the newly-established Land Authority Council.

Arab towns and villages in Israel suffer from severe overcrowding, with Arab municipalities exercising jurisdiction over only 2.5% of the total area of the state. Since 1948, the State of Israel has established approximately 600 Jewish municipalities, whereas no new Arab village, town or city has ever been built.

Israel is currently intensifying its efforts to forcibly evacuate the unrecognized villages in the Naqab (referred to as “illegal clusters”), including by demolishing entire villages, as recently witnessed in the repeated demolition of the village of Al-Araqib. In pursuing this policy, the state has rejected the option of affording recognition to these villages, many of which predate the establishment of Israel. Between 75,000 and 90,000 Arab Bedouin live in the unrecognized villages in the Naqab, whom the state characterizes as “trespassers on state land”.

State funding to Arab schools in Israel falls far behind that provided to Jewish schools. According to official state data published in 2004, the state provides three times as much funding to Jewish students as to Arab pupils. This underfunding is reflected in many areas, including relatively large class sizes and poor infrastructure and facilities.

A series of Israeli laws institute a range of restrictions on freedom of movement, freedom of speech, and access to the political system, including ideological limitations on the platforms of political parties and severe restrictions on travel by MKs to Arab states classified as “enemy states”. Such laws are used predominantly to curb the political freedoms of Palestinian citizens and their elected representatives and are steadily shrinking the space for political action available to them

If Israel had responded proportionately to Oct 7, the world would have continued to ignore their cruel apartheid.

Thinking? They're sleepwalking off a cliff.

Disappointing to see these students capitulate for peanuts that don't come close to actual divestment.

The odds of a bridge collapsing while you drive over it are far too small to bother.

What's your beef with Ilhan Omar? I take your point on AIPAC.

The United States is committing unspeakable acts of evil. The one who loads a gun in full knowledge that it will be used for murder is as guilty as the one who pulls the trigger. We loaded it, reloaded it, reloaded it, and reloaded it again. The blood of Gaza is on our hands, on Biden's hands, every bit as much as it is on Israel's. Aaron Bushnell knew that.

And yes, everything you said of Israel is true. But it is equally true of the United States. I have family who supported cutting off all food, water, and medicine from Gaza after Oct 7. People on here insist that we must vote for Biden. This is no less psycopathic. It is banal evil.

If Biden was carpet bombing Kansas and Trump was saying we need to do it harder, no one would argue that we must vote for Biden as the lesser of two evils. It would be crystal clear that if the only choice we have is either Trump or Biden, the whole system must be dismantled. We must pursue every avenue to end the carnage. But when Kansas is replaced with Gaza, genocide is merely an unpleasant pill to swallow.