• virku@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    So uh. How can they be both antisemittic and support Israel like they do at the same time? Not trying to troll, I honestly feel there is a contradiction there.

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      3 months ago

      These people thrive on cognitive dissonance. It’s one reason logic doesn’t work against them. Also, my understanding is that the religious ones need Jews in Israel for their apocalyptic bible prophecy to come true.

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      3 months ago

      From what I have read/heard, the Rapturetm or “End Times” will start because of/in the Jewish nation of Israel, they are waiting for the end of the world and the Jews are the key to it. If you want some reading just look up “Israel rapture” or “Israel end times”

    • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      They want Jewish people to have a state so they can go away. Also the whole “needs to have all Jewish people in Israel to herald the apocalypse and ascension” or some nonsense.

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      3 months ago

      Maintaining israel’s power in the middle east keeps the west easy access to all of that oil and resources in the region. Bonus points, it keeps all them ‘jews’ in one spot out of the way. Even hitler supported the existence of israel.

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      3 months ago

      Not really a contradiction if you understand Zionism. Paraphrasing Theodor Herzl (recognized as one of the “founding fathers” of Zionism) “the anti-semites will become our greatest allies” in the late 1800s

      Because anti-Semites would support Jewish emigration. White supremacists and neo Nazis would be glad to see them gone from the US. And they have an easy place to push them.

      That, and Israel’s importance today to US government is more about geopolitics and power projection than about ethnic/religious identity.

      And also the Christian zionist angle other people have mentioned with Armageddon.