Israel/Palestine

But I honestly doubt that it’s well-wishers of the Jewish community who are backing this war at this point.

I am sympathetic to both sides as a neutral outsider. But if this war is devastating Gaza, in the long run it will end up being bad for both communities. War profiteers and actual antisemites and Islamophobes would be the only victors here.

Isn’t Netanyahu facing corruption allegations? I haven’t really followed it, but he strikes me as the classic cynical politician crassly promoting self interest at the cost of both Israel and Palestine.

Really it’s all about money and resources (as most things are) while the passions on both sides are exploited for the personal gain of war profiteers. These people-Trump, Netanyahu, Putin, Xi Ping etc etc are at the end of day all about money or power. True of all politicians where I live as well.

They (industrialists, most leaders, their mouthpieces in the media) are in an alliance against the planet and all of us. When I put my most neutral lens on and look at it I see mercenaries gaming all the rest of us using divide and rule and our passions against us.

That a “they” always has to exist consisting of some specific maligned group of scapegoats (a role classically assigned to Jewish people by fascists) rather than the universal corrupt mercenary human with no conscience is a bonus for the actual they. A group into which the only entry requirement is a lack of any real conscience, principles or decency.