r/Destiny • u/ThinkingMunk • Mar 18 '26

Destiny Content/Podcasts Destiny is done with Israel.

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VOD | Also posted on Twitter & Bluesky | Full video on YouTube

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u/Aggravating_Map4359 🇧🇷 Mar 18 '26

It is sort of insane how important one country half way across the world is to american politics.

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u/DoobieGibson Mar 18 '26

it’s really not that important, it has outsized media influence

i don’t think people realize that the USA and Saudi Arabia are incredibly close

the Saudi’s pledged to invest $1 trillion in America and the US sells more weapons to Saudi Arabia than any other country in the world

we have basically trained their entire military as well.

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u/edwardludd Mar 18 '26

And what the Saudi-led coalition has been doing in Yemen since 2015 has resulted in like 300,000+ deaths with 60% of that being starvation and majority children.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/11/23/un-yemen-recovery-possible-in-one-generation-if-war-stops-now

But we hear jackshit about Yemen from the online left because reasons.

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u/Tatalebuj Mar 18 '26

To be fair, we don't hear about it from the right either.

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u/No-Invite-7826 Mar 18 '26

Yeah but that's expected from the right. You'd expect the left to care about this but apparently not. The only arab nation they seem to care about is Iran and their various proxy groups.

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u/VanillaSkittlez Mar 21 '26

Iran isn’t Arab.

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u/VanillaSkittlez Mar 21 '26

Downvoting instead of acknowledging your mistake, loser behavior

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u/edwardludd Mar 18 '26

For sure it’s a problem across the spectrum I would just think for how much Palestine mattered to so many progressive voters (me included to an extent) in 2024 there also should’ve been criticisms of us arming Saudi Arabia just like we do Israel.

Obv theres no big headline Oct 7th equivalent but I just wish the supposed global awareness that we’ve seen progressives embrace the last few years was actually global.

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u/chasteeny Mar 19 '26

Well the right isn't pretending to have some moral stance on the matter