According to the debate, they had their reasons. But still – when one hundred and eighty six nations say one thing, and two say another, you have to wonder about the two.

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The actual 2002-12-18 vote: Yes: 176 | No: 1 | Abstentions: 7 | Non-Voting: 7 | Total voting membership: 191

UNITED STATES was the only No

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/482533

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Ok ok, this vote was over 20 years ago. Not that I think the result would be different if it was held now.

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This map is from 2021. The commenter is confused.

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Great, I can see why Israel wanted to keep the ‘starving children’ option open given that that’s what they were already doing in Gaza before Oct 7.

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I’m guessing OP didn’t know it was 20+ years ago? It happens.

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The OP checked. The OP knows it was from 2021.

The OP also likes talking about himself in the third person. Because The OP thinks its fun.

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Nice job, the OP.

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A SHADY RAVEN CONCURS

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SoleInvictus appreciated OP’s attention to detail and use of third person.

He decided to write a response in second person to hopefully add to the fun, and hopes someone will follow up with a comment in fourth person while recognizing he left them the most difficult task. He doesn’t feel too bad.

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The map is for the 2021 vote, not the 2002 vote.

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Right, the vote for 2021-12-16 were: Yes: 186 | No: 2 | Abstentions: | Non-Voting: 5 | Total voting membership: 193

ISRAEL, UNITED STATES were the only No

https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/3951462

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That’s what the post says

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Israel is the US’s puppet

Oh honey

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Okay, we can hate on Israel all day long for their many crimes, but let’s not entertain “Jews run the United states” jokes. They are the US puppet. A very beloved puppet but still.

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let’s not entertain “Jews run the United states”

Large financial institutions run the United States. And those institutions have a vested interest in controlling trade through the Mediterranean Sea, specifically by way of the Suez Canal. This creates a socio-economic incentive to back a heavily armed ethno-state with strong ties to the US/UK financial system. And - after the holocaust - the Jewish diaspora just happens to be the group that fit the bill. (The large Arab community in Saudi Arabia does, too, but its okay to be racist towards Arabs so we don’t complain quite so much about that).

So we run into a problem. Saying “AIPAC is manipulating our elections with enormous sums of cash laundered through the MIC into mass media social manipulation” is true, but quickly gets you labeled antisemitic by people who want to conflate billionaire shipping magnets with your elderly aunt from Queens. Trying to draw a line between plutocrats entangled with the MIC and random synagogues in Chattanooga or Cleveland becomes difficult when you’ve got real actual nazi fucks screaming slurs on one side of you and cynical mass-murdering shits insisting anyone anti-war is anti-Jew on the other.

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Yeah, it’s a complicated tight line to walk. Hence why it should be avoided implying that Israel puppets the United states and thus falling into actual Nazi conspiracy theories.

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Neither one is a puppet. Each one uses the other. Israel has an outsize influence on US foreign policy, but the US also has an outsize influence on Israeli foreign policy. Israel tries to sway US elections, and US interests try to sway Israeli elections. They share many of the same enemies, which keeps them tied together even when things aren’t necessarily in their shared interests.

In this particular case, the two probably voted “no” for different reasons.

The US voted “no” because they wanted John Deere to be able to remotely shut down a combine harvester, or so that Monsanto can sue people for misusing seeds, things that probably be illegal if food were seen as a human right. Israel voted no because they wanted to be able to keep denying food to Palestinians.

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No one but you mentioned the Jewish religion. Meanwhile, pro-Zionist candidates (right and left) with the backing of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have had an almost unexplainable 100% rate of election. The US election system has been hijacked by Israeli interests.

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Hijacked by Israeli interests? Comrade, they are the US interests before they are Israeli. Flipping it around and pretending the Israel state owns US politics is one key word away from Nazi conspiracy when you know the actual line of motivations begins and ends with the US.

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You completely disregard the largest zionist organisation in the US, CUFI, of which most members are American Christians.

The US support for Israel is the perfect storm composed of financial, military and religious interests of various groups in power in the US. The interest of the Israeli government and center to right wing happen to align with those. Thinking Israel is in control in any of this and doesn’t have to pander to those American interest groups is delusional and a common, sometimes antisemitically motivated, misunderstanding.

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Associating Judaism with the genocidal state is anti-semitic, we don’t do that here.

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You know these ventriloquism-routines where the puppet makes the puppeteer talk with it’s voice?

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I’ve watched enough Twilight Zone to know how this works.

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In most of The Twilight Zones I watch the puppet ends up killing the parents, taking over the kid and staring at the camera going “Who’s a good boy?”

Which, okay, does kind of sound like the relationship between Israel and the USA but that’s beside the point

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Colonists donating money made from stolen property be like:

Look at me. look how generous I am. 💪

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Wow more anti-US propaganda from Lemmy.ml truly shocking

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Is it propaganda if it’s true?

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You do know that people can dislike the decisions America makes and be vocal about that, without it being propaganda right?

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Wow, a critical comment that adds nothing of value to the conversation, attacking the commenter instead of the comment. Even more shocking!

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Now do per capita

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Americans HATE this one trick

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I was going to ask what countries the aid goes to, and what classes as aid.

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You sure you don’t want it as a percentage of GDP?

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If an abusive husband refuses to let his wife have a bank account, should we celebrate his generosity for all the spending money he “gives” her?

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The United States is such a monstrous entity. Fuck this entire country. Someone hurry up and start the Second American Revolution, I’m fucking tired of this shithole.

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I mean, there are folks trying, but I don’t really like what they’re trying for.

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Time to block the access to food for every single politician who voted against until they change their vote.

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