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I think it's probably more the geopolitics, Isreal is in deep with the Military Industrial Complex, the US Intelligence Agencies, and the future plans the US has for the Middle East (namely the agreement between the US, Israel, the Saudis and India to create a trade passage through the area).
But yeah, if you look at Peter Thiel's work with Israel's intelligence R&D company Carbyne you'll find US agencies near by...
...and lots of these shadey dealing go back generations and have been done by Republican and Democrat Presidents. I think it was Obama who agreed to give Israel 38 billion to buy US weapons - an agreement which basically made the US the sole external supplier for their munitions.
I suppose beyond that it's historical, religious, and racial... But there's more to it than that.
She explains exactly this, the meme just cut it all out.
youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1WEhO07Bw&t=759
Immediately after "racism" she also says that it's for short-term gains & geopolitical power (ie USA).
Continuous racism is what allows such a system to even/still exist.
I mean, racism might make it easier for the US to push forward with less resistance, but the relationship with Israel has always seemed more steeped in religious/geopolitics than anything else. For the US they like having a strong tie to a nation centered in the middle east, and there are some weird Christians who believe that they can enable the second coming.
Politicians' religion is money and power. Other religions are just a way to manipulate mass opinion.
This is a very cynical take, but I'm going to be more cynical and say that, no, I still think that some politicians are religious wackadoodles. Power flows not to the just, and not even to the Machiavellian, but with a high degree of randomness. The world is chaos, and not even the most powerful can tame it.
It took six decades to get here, I'm hard-headed, you know? I didn't want to believe it, but I can't live in denial, anymore.
Sure
One side makes plans and can't manage random variables; the other rides the lightening with audacity and wins. IDK how that works. If we're doing cliché, fortune favors the bold, I guess? 🤷♀️