Poll: Will we Israel?
The American mainstream media seems confident that viewers are emotionally invested in the pillage of Israel and impending response to the same. Likewise, it is a topic of much chatter among anyone who routinely opines online.
Regardless of the novelty and spectacle of the attack, the hype in American media seems artificial, to me. Firstly the difference in nature of the attack is not implicitly resonant in a culture which faces the threat of mass shootings all the time, and has rendered honest discussion of violent crime against “whites” impossible, as America has. (Whereas to at least a small extent the idea of a sudden public suicide-bombing still perhaps terrifies.) Second, however reliably our politicians on the federal stage must swear to consider Israel’s interests to be our own, it’s not a topic that animates much interest or discussion.1 As a final point, Israel is not Ukraine in terms of Trump. Ukraine symbolically represents a foe of Trump. Since Trump openly supported Israel, it is awkward at this point, or as I say artificial, for the Biden-era media to adopt a narrative in which the New Thing to care about is Israel. This is a retcon too far.
So then, from an American media consumer perspective, why wouldn’t this just be another reboot of the perennially not very popular news drama Israel/Palestine©? Americans at this point have had decades of practice tuning this conflict out.
Hence I turn to my readers, since my own instinct of what will happen is so out of sync with the news. The question here is not about should, but about will. What, based on your actual, organic social interactions over the last few days, would you guess the future holds? Assuming Israel goes to war, seeks to finish the project of 1948 and purge their frontier of the savage — fine. But is the US going to do anything substantively different from the status quo of supporting Israel financially and geopolitically?
(The last option refers to an argument I have encountered in which any direct US involvement merely takes the highest use of force options off of the table for Israel, which sounds like a good point.)
The argument I have seen here is that conservative American politicians vent their instinct for nationalism and ethnic patriotism into Israel because they aren’t allowed to express any such sentiments regarding the US.
It is my view that it is just too unbelievable that neither the CIA or Israeli Intelligence knew this was coming. I can only conclude that this was allowed to happen for two reasons: So that Israel could get rid of their "Palestinian problem" once and for all, and so that the entire West could be stirred up in support of Israel Isince clearly the Ukraine gambit did not work), and thus usher in a state of fear that Muslims will "get us" and therefore there needs to be far more surveillance and big government for "our own good." So far from what I've seen 99% of the populace is falling for it.
The only non-Jewish Americans that care about helping Israel are the politicians.
If the American government represents the people we would do nothing.
But we all know it doesn’t.