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Israel’s Settler Colonial Tendency Legitimizes the US Ideology

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20.05.2024

The US leadership looks at Israel with the pride a father has for a child who took the best of his traits he cherishes

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The US is ideologically inclined to support Israel in its endeavor to eliminate Palestinians and establish a larger Israeli state, as a way of legitimizing its creation model. As Israel continues with Rafah Operation, completely blockades to ultimately eliminate Gazans (as a people) and occupy the land many leaked plans show, Washington looks at Israel with the pride a father has for a child that shows his traits he cherishes. The tendency of evil regimes to support others that ideologically support their existence was established by Indian-Kenyan scholar Pio Gama Pinto, who noted how the US, and UK always supported the atrocities Portugal meted against those seeking freedom in the colonies of Angola, Cabo Verde, Goa, and Mozambique, but ignored victims (here). Pinto also observed that Washington and London eyed to station NATO in Goa (here), which speaks to the impeccable foresight of this scholar over 60 years later, and when India is being nudged (here) to support the warmongering body. Moving back to the current times, the ongoing Israeli-Palestine war shows that all former colonizer countries are supporting Israel, since it legitimizes their models of establishment and expansion. The stark realization that atrocious states support similar ones was also made by an Indian scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru, who also observed how the US and UK allowed or enabled colonizers including fascists to invade and destroy countries from Manchuria, Central Europe, China, Spain, to Africa and concluded that an imperialist country could only function by appeasing another to preserve their common ideological foundation (here). Using Pinto’s and Nehru’s perspectives, and considering that Israel pursues a settler colonial journey to expand in the region, the US views Israel’s murderous path as ideologically buttressing its........

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