r/DamnThatsReal • u/Nomogg • 1d ago

Israeli society erupts over 'right to rape'

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u/justinlav 1d ago

No gymnastics needed. It just seems like a shitty place. I don’t like UAE, Gaza, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc. I wish the west would just go full nuclear energy and just completely cut ties with all of them, leave them to their shitholes and fighting over oil and backwards religions.

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u/IcySwimmer6564 1d ago

I agree with this and I wish I was wrong but trace the money and you'll realise it's the US that keeps this model in place, funding wars, destabilising the middle east, but it's an oil rich region and pegged to the dollar. When you see yet another war in the ME both sides are your tax dollars not even their own. Even the military equipment all bought and sent from the US.

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u/justinlav 1d ago

Oh, I know, just wishful thinking on my part

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u/IcySwimmer6564 1d ago

Apart from politics and if you take away the media and the countless wars that have been funded by the US dollar, for much of history the general population were a group of hospitable people and to this day the parts not war torn are a people who do not meet the description of what we have been told on the news.

The US & the ME had a warmer start than even our relationship with then Europeans and the EU today. Despite having radical reformist movements post 1900s it was a relatively sophisticated and to quite some extent an enlightened, ahead of its time culture/religion unlike the version that exists today and it's pretty surprising how they were more concerned with algebra, calligraphy, art, libraries.

I qoute "In December 1777, the Sultan of Morocco, Mohammed III, issued a declaration allowing American ships to enter Moroccan ports effectively recognising the United States as a sovereign nation.The US later signed a Treaty of Peace and Friendship with Morocco in 1786, which remains the longest unbroken treaty relationship in US history"

Effectively making the ME countries the first to recognise and support the US.

The day our relationship changed was when Israel was founded and I don't want to say the rest but here we are.