Well letâs get it right. They kidnapped, tortured, murdered and butchered a Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, for being outspoken about the vile regime in Saudi Arabia.
And then thereâs what theyâre doing in Yemen. And their links to 9/11. It goes on and on.
But they get to buy Newcastle, while Roman is forced to sell Chelsea.
Similar to Erdogan whoâs regime jailed 10.000s of liberal journalists, teachers, judges and other people for being vocally against AKP. Which is essentially a far right party.
But this is all a-okay, since theyâre friends with the US.
Israel illegally occupying and continuing to create settlements in what are internationally recognized Palestinian lands. Where are the Palestinian flags flying on Dutch buildings (as happened with Ukraine). I see no sanctions, no mass hysteria, no mass media outrage, just excuses, because friends of the US.
The Netherlands has no beef with China. But is forced by the US to stop selling production technology for chips smaller than 7nm. This type of tech is only made in the Netherlands (asml). Why? Because the US says so. Sovereign nation⌠ha ha ha ha
The vilest most hypocritical country - politically is the US. Ravaging countless nations across the globe after the 2nd world war ended. American hegemony is fortunately in decay and inside their nation itâs rotten to the core. The U.S. modelled much if itâs political system after the Roman Empire and it will collapse as the Roman Empire did.
The weird thing is, if you ask a lot of conservative pro-Israel folks in the US, theyâd say that Europe is extremely hostile to Israel and Jewish people.
Obviously thereâs a deliberate conflating of âIsraelisâ and âJewsâ but itâs wild how warped the perception of things can get.
Yeah, Iâm sure there are. I felt it a bit when I was in London and Iâd walk to shul or whatever. Itâs like âoh wow you see some dude walking in a yarmulka minding his own business and youâre wearing a âFree Palestineâ pin and you smirk at himâŚok, super edgy, way to contribute to the cause Delilah.â
And I blame that partially on Israeli politicians who have spent the better part of 75 years deliberately tying the idea of Israel as a political entity to Judaism as a religion and Jews as an ethnic group when they can and have existed independently for centuries.
Yep. So many people are unable to differentiate between the actions of Israeli government and the Jewish people.
Ultimately I detest people that empathise with Israeli government policy on Palestinians and unfortunately that policy has bred a lot of antisemitic belief because of peoples inability to differentiate.
I donât think Europe is extremely hostile towards Israel or Jewish people. But, there is definitely quite a bit of antisemitism.
That antisemitism is divided into two camps.
Immigrants in The Netherlands from mostly Muslim countries tend to be more antisemitic for reasons related to Israel and the Palestine question.
Then there is the camp of native Dutch antisemitism. Iâd say itâs less prominent, but it exists too and it is a far right issue.
Mostly this is true for much of Europe.
The problem is. Those conservatives and other folk take a binary position. Where one is an antisemite if one criticises Israelâs aggressive expansionist behaviour. Which is a nonsense, of course.
Unfortunately most people just follow whatever the leading consensus is amongst their âtribeâ and are coalesced into conformity. Standing out, being ridiculed, character assassinated or harassed is just not what most people like to experience. So the easiest way is to shut your opinion and get along.
I tend to not conform as some might have noticed. Sometimes it gets me a lot of heat, but I like it warm.
I really think Covid was the straw that broke the NHSâs back.
Years of underfunding and making the population more depressed and sicker and poorer, and this was the match that did it
Itâs finished lads. Now itâs just a walking corpse that will eventually stop running
Illusion of public free healthcare, but the quality is gettin worse and worse and you are less likely to see a doctor.
Demand has skyrocketed, primary care is finished, secondary care is falling apart at the seams, waiting lists are humungous meaning people just go private anyways and are massively out of pocket anyways.
All doctors and nurses that respect themselves have lon since quit or moved elsewhere.
As I predicted earlier (red flag laws). Youâre welcome.
Itâs more about mental illness than the guns themselves, you can argue with me on that, but what I say is based on the political lay of the land, and possible solutions based on that. It isnât NRA âgun nutsâ committing these mass shootings.
Having said all of that this is the best that can be attempted at a federal level and still has limited chance of success because of the Senate filibuster. Even if it fails, as said earlier, it can be enacted (and extended) at state and local level.
Just tying up a loose end in here. You can all go back to one liners howling at the moon about America this and that now.