• anarchost
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    3 months ago

    Because it has America, and until recently much of the Western world, backing it up

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      3 months ago

      Israel doesn’t control the world’s media. That’s an antisemitic dogwhistle/conspiracy theory that’s incredibly dumb on its face, the IDF can’t even release a single compelling propaganda video despite having control over Gaza.

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        3 months ago

        How about the word influence then. I did not mean absolute control by my wording. And to dispute that influence requires a lot of mental gymnastics

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          Not really, it only gets the influence granted to it on behalf of western powers as far as I’ve seen. Israel would be a smudge if it weren’t for US influence exercised on its behalf.

          It’s like, I don’t know, veterans. Politicians don’t badmouth them, they get idolized, but they don’t influence much.