WSJ having a normal one.

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    It’s not anti-semitic to criticize Israel any more than it’s anti-christian to criticize the Republican party. Both institutions are unholy perversions of spirituality.

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      The FBI : hey, let’s call these black leaders “black messiahs”, and try to kill as many of them as possible. Killing the modern equivalents of Jesus and Moses, trying to free their people from enslavement and oppression, is very christian.

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          While that strain of thought is definitely present in the minds of a lot of white evangelical christians, etc, I’m not convinced that all these secular people are doing settler colonialism for religious reasons. These are not the crusades. It seems to me that the Palestinians have stuff they want, namely land, and they want to take it from them. That, and the west wants a country that doubles as a military base in that strategically significant part of the world.

          I think framing this as a religious conflict really misses the essence of how fascism works. Think of manifest destiny. It doesn’t really matter if God thinks white settlers should kill every Indian from coast to coast. It’s something they already wanted to do, and the religious component is a half-baked justification. Whether or not people believe that nonsense is basically irrelevant.

          I’m just not sure that concept is on the minds of many settlers is all.

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            I know, it’s not a simple religious conflict. There are Jewish and Christian Palestinians and most “Israelis” don’t care much for what the actual Torah says. But, it’s just undeniable that “Israel” is made to be a Jewish ethnostate. Regardless of if you practice or not they want as many Euros with Jewish blood to join the colonizing.