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[โ€“] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not quite true. Israel gets a lot of support from the US government because it's a useful ally.

It's the vanguard in the coveted Middle Eastern region (lots of oil) that is incidentally hated by everyone around them so you can easily use their status to provoke proxy wars, then invade and claim plausible deniability by saying you just helped out your ally.

[โ€“] I_am_10_squirrels 3 points 11 months ago

Plus the delicious state surveillance tools