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[–] fishos@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pretty sure there's a picture of Obama doing this too. It's just being respectful while performing diplomacy. Sure, you can argue that this shouldn't happen with Israel, but cherry picking R's doing this and ignoring ALL OF THE D's that did it too is just dishonest. This is misinformation.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

yeah and Obama was also a cuck for Israel for doing it. I agree we should show ALL of our leaders at the cucking-wall.

All our leadership are cucks for Israel and it is in fact, very weird.

Yes, we need bases and support in the middle-east, sure, makes sense. But it's ridiculous to think there's been no other way to exert political will in the region. Let's just admit that our country is a corporation and it's very profitable to have a reliable weapon-buyer and test-bed for all our new gadgets and killing tools.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean the guy who sent like 30 billion dollars in weapons to Israel for free?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How many other government's representatives have done this? I've never heard of any. (Maybe I've missed them, it's possible)

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=US+representative+at+Israel+prayer+wall

And Holy Shit, look at the top results.... Is that Obama I see? Oh wow.... And a bunch of other people too? Shiiiiiit. It's almost like there's more nuance to the issue than some hastily thrown together tweet taking shit out of context.

This would be hilarious if I didn't think you were a registered voter who thinks they are "informed" when they can't even do a basic search. Ffs, I don't even know the name of the damn wall, I just guessed. Now I know it's the Western Wall, and can even learn more about it, because I did 5 seconds of research.

Media literacy in this country is dead.

Edit: alright, fuck it, in my haste I didn't see you said other countries. My bad there. But I'm leaving all of this, because.....

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=foreign+diplomats+visiting+Western+Wall+in+Israel+

...STILL APPLIES. It's not that hard. Seriously.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My point exactly. Those are all from the US.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes?

Well apparently there aren't really any significant numbers that are pretending to be jewish for some reason. I suppose that when you're not a US politician, people at home would just think you're a weirdo.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

squints can you move those goal posts a little closer? They're almost out of the park how far you moved them to not have to admit that you just didn't know that other countries do the same thing with the western wall.

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I dunno, I can still see the goalposts. I think he needs to move them again....

[–] fishos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

"pretending to be Jewish".... Ummm they're not doing that so another lie spread I guess.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

It's bad for all of them. Fuck Israel.

[–] QuantumTickle@lemmy.zip -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is exactly zero nuance in this comment. Obama hadn't been throwing around near the rhetoric that Trump and his cronies have.

Israel has always (afaik) been an ally. The difference is the fanaticism and devotion our leaders demand we give to another country.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

True, Obama did way better PR for Apartheid. Trump is letting the mask slip.