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

Muh Jews bad.

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There is a large pro-Israel lobby that funds a lot of congress.

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There's more than one, but "large" is relative. Below are the five biggest spenders in lobbying Congress.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce ~$70–80M
National Association of Realtors ~$60–85M
PhRMA ~$25–30M
Amazon ~$20–25M
American Hospital Association ~$20M

By contrast, the biggest pro-Israel lobbying group, the AIPAC, spends about $3 million a year.

But so does the pro-Saudi and pro-UAE lobbying group. The pro-Qatar lobbying group spends about $1.5 million (probably half of that budget now goes to Huckster Carlson).

And I've never heard anybody claim that realtors run America or tell the POTUS what to do.

Some people do have religious reasons for supporting (and not supporting) Israel, and some people are simply racist, but completely apart from all of that, we'd be kind of stupid not to support them just based on their geopolitical position in a region that contains 70% of the world's oil and passes through 30% of the container shipping in the world.

I can understand a lot of the different sides we're seeing right now, I do struggle to see how a country the size of New Jersey, with a population less than New York City, and a GDP not that much higher than Alabama, is considered the ultimate, all powerful boogie man by so many though.

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The US has no need for their oil. This is like a 20 year old out of date argument.

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Why are we still getting it from the middle east then?

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we're in a war and our Secretary of State said it's because we had no choice due to Israel's actions. Call me crazy but I think Israel is worth discussing in this context.

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Your mission

It genuinely blows my mind that people can see all of this and just kind of shrug it off

Just wow.

Again, peak “I picked my camp now I will see all things and force them into it” type behavior I mentioned in earlier.

While yes this is a joint mission, Israel still has their OWN missions to accomplish as do we.

Sometimes when daddy(Trump) hangs out with his friends (Bibi) they like to go and kick someone's arse that was threatening to hurt mommy (USA/Westerners)

Here are the cliffs notes:

Israel is a democracy.

They moved back in to their ancient homeland after WWII. With the blessing of the United Nations who granted them the land.

In an area where sparse nomadic arabs had been starving for hundreds of years, they turned the area into a green belt of productive farming.

After the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazis in WWII, they were determined to never be victims again.

After establishing themselves and making the arabs look bad by being so successful, the arabs decided to invade and try to destroy Israel on numerous occasions.

In all such invasions, Israel defeated the arabs and rightfully conquered the lands of their would-be aggressors thus growing the size of Israel.

Westerners have had problems with Jews for as long as Jews tried to live in Western societies.

You would need to study the history of those problems to determine whether you believe “antisemitism” was justified or whether Germans just decided one day in the late 1800s to start hating Jews.

The privileged treatment Jews have received since WW2 is coming to end as the Boomers go away. Israel knows this and is now going overt with their world domination plans, while they still have time.