Can someone explain the Israel thing like I’m 5?

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Why do so many Republican politicians like Cruz or Graham or whoever obsess about Israel? I

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Late 19th century bible interpretation by Scofield. AKA, dispensationalism.

It’s people taking positions on things that require nuance and they lack any foundational knowledge, understanding, or experience to have that nuance

So they just pick which camp they like best and become npcs for it

There is a large pro-Israel lobby that funds a lot of congress. None of them hide this and they run on pro-israel platforms.

US has interests in the middle east because it contains a large amount of oil and oil trade matters to the entire world.

Israel has become less popular recently because of the war in Gaza and alleged links to Epstein. Same people pissed about us attacking Iran.

So people on the left and right have been pouring it on about how israel runs our government.

I think it is fair to say Israel heavily influences us to be pro-israel. But we wouldn’t be friends with Iran if Israel didn’t exist. We overthrew their government to install the Shah and the current government overthrew the Shah and installed the Anti-American Islamic Revolution government.

Because Oil.

There are different angles to this.

There is a (Growing) sect of Evangelical Christians who, for whatever insane reason, think Israel is important to the merging of their religiously-led political beliefs.

There are neocons who use Israel as a beacon for warmongering, for obvious reasons.

You'll find politicians grabbing onto one or both of these based on constituency.

There are also various versions of conflation merging antisemitism with Zionism, which follow a spectrum from full on "The Jews run everything and the ones in Israel aren't really Jews and are Khazars" (completely merging the concept of Jewish people and the state of Israel) to " Israel, as a state, has compromised many of our politicians through clandestine operations and influences America", ignoring the whole "Jewish" part of it and making it solely a claim against a state actor.


It's complicated because you can take from parts of all of these along different wavelengths to create your own adventure, so to speak. For example, after the Israeli attacks on Gaza following October 7, you had a irrational NPC talking point emerge that "Dems hate Jews" or "DEMS are the real antisemites" as a gotcha, which conflated Israel/Zionism and being Jewish in sort of a bait and switch gotcha attempt. That's kind of morphed a bit with the actual antisemite movement of the right growing online and how the non-antisemitic right is responding.

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It’s people taking positions on things that require nuance and they lack any foundational knowledge, understanding, or experience to have that nuance

So they just pick which camp they like best and become npcs for it

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A lot of it has to do with social media too. Tons and tons of posts and reels that have hundreds of thousands of likes and comments are circulated everyday with misrepresented, dishonest, and outright incorrect information. Most folks don't have the time nor the desire to dig into these claims but they form their opinions based on what they see. It's the downside to a free exchange of information combined with a busy/lazy populace. You can package a position on something that doesn't have much substance to it but do it in a manner that is easily consumable and most folks will eat it up.

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Can someone explain the Israel thing like I’m 5?

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Israel is the new boogeyman for lazy people.

Not radical islam, Communists, or progressives ruining our country… but a country the size of the New Jersey on the other side of the world

Take 2 seconds to see the amount of money, your tax money, that is given to Israel and then another 2 seconds to see how much politicians are being given through AIPAC.

If you had issues with Democrats and how they were funneling money through the NGO's then you will be just as pissed off with how they are funneling money through AIPAC.

If you are a 20-28 year old and find yourself in a position that you may never be able to afford a home, then just find peace in knowing that you are completely financing 9 million jews in Israel so they can have free healthcare, free higher education, and are incentivized to have more children and it's all subsidized by your taxes, then they get us involved in their conflicts because they own our politicians via by buying them or blackmailing the ones that are pedos.

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There are also various versions of conflation merging antisemitism with Zionism, which follow a spectrum from full on "The Jews run everything and the ones in Israel aren't really Jews and are Khazars" (completely merging the concept of Jewish people and the state of Israel) to " Israel, as a state, has compromised many of our politicians through clandestine operations and influences America", ignoring the whole "Jewish" part of it and making it solely a claim against a state actor.

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I looked into this modern iteration of the Khazar thing that I ignorantly posted about a couple of times in the past. I now agree with you, it's pretty much bull shite.