So the UK announces it’s going to recognize Palestinian statehood and immediately afterwards ISIS calls on Muslims in the UK to attack Christians and Jews.
Sorry, only idiots cannot see who and what ISIS actually is by now.
https://nitter.poast.org/Villgecrazylady/status/1969352000740397181 @palestine
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The US and UK (with Israel’s eager and self-serving cooperation) have been working in the Middle East for at least 75 years now toward one and only one goal - destabilization.
They likely have some broad preferences regarding which specific crackpots, tyrants or ideologues hold power in which particular place at a given time, but that appears to be generally secondary. What they want above all else is just for things to never be allowed to stabilize there.
It’s really very simple - middle eastern oil wealth administered by stable and effective and popular governments would be an existential threat to western hegemony, so that cannot be allowed. And to that end, the west, and the US and the UK in particular, along with their psychopathically colonialist ally-of-sorts Israel, generates a constant stream of terrorism, upheaval and oppression.
@WatDabney Exactly. Which explains why Iraq both Iraq and Libya were overthrown. Libya was the most prosperous country in Africa and both Qaddafi and Saddam Husein supported Palestine.
I remember clearly when all of this came to me, in the run-up to Desert Storm, when I learned that the US had actually backed and trained Hussein. At the time, like so many, I just fell into the “they’ve been killing each other for thousands of years” trap, and started to adopt the spin that the US had just blundered, once again, by naively backing someone sho would later tirn on them.
But it just didn’t stack up. In the forst place, it was too much of a pattern - it just didn’t make sense to me that professionals would make that same blunder over and over and over again. And in the second place, looked at closely, it wasn’t so much that Hussein had turned on the US as that the US had turned on Hussein.
And then it suddenly just clicked - if the Middle East was stable, with their wealth, they could compete on a more or less equal footing with the west, instead of wasting so much time and energy and resources squabbling. So what if the Middle East’s instability wasn’t incidental, but deliberately engineered?
And suddenly everything just fell into place, all the way back to the overthrow of Mossadegh. And everything since has just slotted neatly into place, up to and including the Palestinian genocide and the western governments’ otherwise inexplicable determined support of it.
The only thing I remain unclear on is Israel’s specific role, which seems to be some odd mix of proxy snd provocateur. There’s a degree to which the west is using Israel but there’s also a degree to which Israel is using the west, and I can’t quite sort out how much of each it is.
Though it works out to the same thing either way…
These are not related events.
