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Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by Aeolun on Monday July 07, 2025 @11:51PM (#44496897)
How is it possible they influence so much of what happens in western politics, or at least how whole nations respond to their genocidal war anyway?
Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by bigyabai on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:27AM (#44497082)
One theory is that an abundance of American Christians believe in dispensational premillennialism[0], which rebukes orthodox Judaism in the hopes of returning Christ. Many dispensationalists (including Issac Newton[1]) attempted to interpret the Bible as a function of divine will, and argued that the foundation of Israel is directly imperative due to the prophecy of Daniel. This seems to go against the majority orthodox Judaism interpretation that the Third Temple (as well as the return of Christ) is willed by God alone and not predetermined conditions that men can control.

It's a bit out-there, but unfortunately I can't write-off DJT accepting it all at face-value. He's got conspicuous in-laws and an awfully weird track-record writing policy for the Levant. A religious conviction to defend Israel on behalf of his savior seems to slot rather neatly into his internal belief system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premillennialism#Dispensationa...

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16878

Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by somename9 on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:29AM (#44497361)
Dispensationalism is a heresy that flows out of the Scofield Bible, created by a con artist, Cyrus Scofield. He was likely funded and supported by Zionists.

The Israel of the Bible does not refer to the country Israel, but many Christians have been deceived.

Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by mikelitoris on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:33AM (#44497110)
The simple truth is there are a lot of zionists in powerful positions both in terms of governmental and monetary. Open wikipedia and look up cabinets and powerful people in US government since WW2. Pay attention to their ethnicity; even if half are zionists, that's a lot of people. Edit: people downvoting this, first part of the comment is just facts, second part is plausible speculation. Why are you downvoting?
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Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by mikelitoris on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:00AM (#44497228)
No, you are putting words in my mouth and being very reductive. Majority of powerful people is not jewish nor zionist, but there is probably a lot of zionists amongst them. And no, not all jews are zionists, nor all jews are in powerful positions.
Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by tareqak on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:13AM (#44497299)
In addition, not all Zionists are Jews.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

> Christian Zionism is a political and religious ideology that, in a Christian context, espouses the return of the Jewish people to the Holy Land.[1] Likewise, it holds that the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 was in accordance with biblical prophecies transmitted through the Old Testament: that the re-establishment of Jewish sovereignty in the Levant—the eschatological "Gathering of Israel"—is a prerequisite for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.[1][2][3] The term began to be used in the mid-20th century, in place of Christian restorationism, as proponents of the ideology rallied behind Zionists in support of a Jewish national homeland.[1][4][5]

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Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by mikelitoris on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:10AM (#44497284)
Again, straw man arguments through and through.
Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by t-3 on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @02:39AM (#44497666)
Zionists control the US, the US controls the money. The control of the US happened through decades of very savvy lobbying and a feedback loop involving foreign aid, campaign contributions, kickbacks, and investments in the military industrial complex. There is probably a very small portion of apocalyptic death cultists wanting to bring about Armageddon, but I doubt there are very many. The US has been the wealthiest and most powerful country in the world for a while, so it has quite a bit of ability to bully others through various means. Those means invariably end up being used to push government policy in many countries toward a pro-Zionist agenda. Unlike similar campaigns WRT Russia or China, nobody really trades with Palestine or has any non-political interest their existence so non-compliance is limited and often transient.
Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by tareqak on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @12:48AM (#44497165)
Defence contractors hire a lot of people which in turn create a lot of ancillary jobs to support said industries.

Defence contractors are also becoming increasingly sophisticated so they use more software, more chips, more clouds, and more information security.

Almost all of MAFANG has some defence-related footprint, and some have multiple. You might see a few defence/defence adjacent companies in the monthly WhoIsHiring posts as well as https://www.workatastartup.com .

Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by esseph on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:01AM (#44497234)
Many US states actually have laws on the books that prohibits anybody that works with or I think event contracts with the state gov from "discrimination against Israel", in various forms, etc, depending on the particular state.

To my knowledge, no US state has any other sort of legal recognition of any other foreign government/state.

Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR by bigyabai on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @01:07AM (#44497268)