$12.5 billion in aid from the US since 7th October represents massive ongoing subsidisation as a military outpost for Western interests.
This is true but hardly makes them a colony.
Israel is unable to sustain it’s genocide and wars without direct and continuous weapons transfers from the US and Europe.
Also true, but this doesn't make them a colony. Saudi Arabia depends on western arms too. Are they a colony?
Israel is completely dependent on Western technology transfers, investment and market access.
As is the whole region (either to the west, Russia, or China)
Military technology development is largely funded by and shared with Western allies.
Does this make NATO a colony?
Israel acts as a testing ground and laboratory for US and European weapons systems.
Does this make Pakistan a Chinese colony?
Israel relies on Western diplomatic cover for its survival
Does this make Kosovo a colony?
Domestic Israeli politics is based on the need to maintain Western support.
Does this make Saudi Arabia a colony?
Many colonial settlers are European or American in origin.
Phew, good thing we're not being racist here, eh?
Zionism’s original mission was according to Theodore Herzel as a “bulwark of Western civilization against Oriental savagery”. This is no different to the “civilising mission” of Western Empires.
That makes Israel imperialist, but doesn't make them a colony.
Israel serves as an outpost of Western interest in preventing Arab unity. A Western objective since the end of World War 1.
If this is true, why do Arab states prefer to normalize relations with Israel rather than help Palestinians? They are at least as complicit in this genocide as "the west".
But while there is nothing racist in that statement, you are by contrast a despicable racist. Apologetics defending the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of children - slaughtering indigenous peoples in their homeland based on ethnic background - is as racist as it gets. Your defense of white supremacy is unforgivable.
Haha what? Nice try. I literally said Israel was genocidal. My point is that it's possible to illustrate that within being a racist. It's the difference between saying "Somalia is a failed state" and "Somalia is a failed state because it's inhabited by black people".
No, it was not. Israel was recommended by the UN, after which Arab states revolted and tried to expel Jews form the region. The latter won the war and declared the creation of Israel. That in no way makes it a colony of the UK or "the west".
and it recalls the “Dark Ages” that followed the fall of the Roman Empire
This is unfair to the Romans. They struggled through multiple economic and migratory/military crises to keep their state alive and saved it from destruction several times before entropy finally took its course. Even after Rome "fell", people maintained the appearance of continuity. What they did not do at any time is deliberately take a hammer to everything. Trump is much more like Pol Pot than Odoacer.
Critics of aggressive voter roll purges warn that certain methods can disproportionately impact communities of color, naturalized citizens, and other vulnerable populations.
Wow I can't believe the Racism Nexus built by racists is being used in racist ways.
I just can't get into them... I like being able to tile windows when I want to, but I find them too complicated to use. I like how Plasma already contains everything I need and I never have any problems with it. Personally I find the best implementation of tiling is in PopOS where you use a shortcut to activate and deactivate it. It's really the best of both worlds!
Karp asserts that the tech industry has a moral duty to work with the US government, “an affirmative obligation to support the state that made its rise possible.” He frames Silicon Valley’s abdication of this duty as nothing short of a national betrayal: “We must rise up and rage against this misdirection of our culture and capital,” he writes.
Hmm, for someone who claims to be a liberal, this sounds an awful lot like "All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state", the words of a famous Italian who created a certain political movement that the current US regime is emulating.
"China" has been colonialist for ~3000 years. The entire region has been a series of colonial projects since the dawn of civilisation. I can't even think of a period when they weren't colonialist.
Edit: I don't mean to single out China here -- my point is that nearly everyone is colonialist and has been for a very long time, so any state saying they are not colonialist is most likely lying.
Depending on the region and how you measure the difference, the drop is anywhere from 25% to 75%, so yeah, it's a lot. For reference, in 2024 about 3.3 million Canadians went to Florida alone, and that doesn't count other states -- in particular border areas that heavily depend on Canadian shoppers. This nonsense started at the tail end of the winter travel season so the effects didn't have time to fully manifest but next year will be very bad for the US.
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