• Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Wait, why?

    Conservatives, especially ultra-conservatives and reactionaries, hate Israel.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Since when do conservatives hate Israel? The ultra-conservatives I know support Israel because they believe it’s a necessary condition to the apocalypse.

      • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Evangelicals support Israel as a matter of theological policy. The less evangelically-captured wing of the Republican party dislikes them because they're Jews.

        • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          The less evangelically-captured wing of the Republican party dislikes them because they're Jews.

          A lot of these hate Arabs more, tho. They're not exactly pro Israel, but they're so anti Palestine that they'll briefly tone down the Jew hating.

    • windowlicker [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      the republican party has spent decades unconditionally supporting israel and increasing funding for it at every chance humanly possible. where do you get the idea that conservatives hate israel? it’s like the single thing they’re almost unanimously behind

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Many reactionaries hate Israel; your average Republican stalwart is not an average reactionary.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Doesn't really matter when they'd crawl across a mile of broken glass to vote for the person supporting Isreal to upset liberals.

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The neocons love Israel as part of the “judeo-christian” war empire they’re trying to create re:Bush era foreign policy but paleocons and libertarians like Garrison used to be hate them for the same reason because they’re anti-interventionist. Anti-semitism and evangelical esketology as a different coin with two sides for the issue

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Yea but even more ultra conservatives support Isreal because they think it's neccesary for it to get into an end time war to trigger the rapture.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      not true. nazis and ultra-reactionaries love Israel. Evangelical extremists love Israel. "Western civilization" freaks who fetishize the roman empire and "western judeo-christian values" and want a war of civilizations love Israel. Hitler's plan A was a jewish ethnostate he could deport all the jewish diaspora to, he started killing everyone when the logistics and expenses became unrealistic. Ultimately the goal of a zionist and a nazi are in perfect alignment, terrorize all jewish diaspora into self-deporting and congregating into a single Jewish ethnostate.

      The rightoid cranks who believe in "ZOG" (Zionist Occupied Government) use Jews as a scapegoat as to why the USA is making a bunch of decisions they consider irrational (such as exporting production to other countries), when they don't/can't realize that it's just capitalism doing capitalist things. However, even these anti-semitic cranks are divided in half, with a lot of them still supporting Israel for genociding muslims/arabs. They fundamentally agree with the conceit of Zionism, that every ethnic group should have its own rigidly enforced supremacist ethnostate. Even if they don't like Jews in particular, they see Israel as a model to emulate.

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I don't know, I've met some alone that really seem to believe that "the Jews" control the government and are often Christian fundamentalist freaks.