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It’s quite remarkable and disturbing how often I see conversations with Zionists and Israel supporters devolve into this
(hexbear.net)
“Palestinians have tried everything. Israel keeps trying to ethnically cleanse them” “They haven’t but I wish they did”
I’m too tired to try to deeply psychoanalyze this or whatever but it feels like they deep down understand their position relies on defense of Empire and presupposition of their monopoly of violence against rowdy upstarts, and when backed into a corner they start running their mouths without the usual window dressing.
as funny as that is to think about, black conservatives actually exist and are absolutely integrated into the white supremacist hegemony of the American state and its pro-Israel anti-Palestinian foreign policy. See: Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, black politicians from both bourgeois parties who, if I am not mistaken, have always firmly supported American foreign policy decisions with respect to Israel. The black conservative clergy in America is also supportive of Israel. It is upsetting to remember that even leaders well-loved by the left like MLK were supportive of Israel (despite Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians beginning as early as 1948).
That is true, but to be fair to MLK, I don't think Israel's role in serving US/capitalist empire was as clear then as it is today.
MLK was fallible, Israel was clearly what it was then. The genocide began in 48 and was apparent then as well, to those with their eyes open.
“Did the Zionists have the legal or moral right to invade Arab Palestine, uproot its Arab citizens from their homes and seize all Arab property for themselves just based on the "religious" claim that their forefathers lived there thousands of years ago? Only a thousand years ago the Moors lived in Spain. Would this give the Moors of today the legal and moral right to invade the Iberian Peninsula, drive out its Spanish citizens, and then set up a new Moroccan nation ... where Spain used to be, as the European zionists have done to our Arab brothers and sisters in Palestine?...”
http://www.malcolm-x.org/docs/gen_zion.htm
Thank you for this information.
Of course! MLK was a seminal figure, but nobody is perfect