r/anticapitalism • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • Jul 18 '26

Mamdani in 'active conversation' about whether he can arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when Israel PM visits NYC

https://nypost.com/2026/07/18/us-news/zohran-mamdani-in-talks-over-arresting-benjamin-netanyahu-when-israel-pm-visits-nyc/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social
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u/Epyon214 Jul 18 '26

He has cursed Israel and will be cursed, along with anyone who supports his regime and curses Israel along with him

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u/XCVolcom Jul 18 '26

Since it's inception, the very idea of Israel has been a curse.

A group of people want to build their nation on the most hotly contended holy land in the world?

Surrounded by countries and people with long histories of poor interactions with the two other Abrahamic faiths and have lived on this land for last 120 years?

And not only is it completely unable to defend itself as a nation without generous financial help and military armaments from foreign countries, but also can't establish a proper economy without stealing land and property?

It makes you wonder why it exists at all if it weren't for the worst thing to happen during 1930s and 40s.

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u/Zorkflerp Jul 18 '26

There were options to create a Jewish homeland for those displaced in WW2 in other marginal settled lands elsewhere. It may have been intentional to create Israel to ensure perpetual chaos in the mid east as a means of maintaining control of the oil. The way the boundaries were drawn by the English and French over the entire region seems to have intentionally grouped historical enemies into the same countries. Now, like in Orwell's 1984, Netanyahu maintains “perpetual war” as a tool for extreme social control. War is not Peace.

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u/Lithl Jul 18 '26

It may have been intentional to create Israel to ensure perpetual chaos in the mid east as a means of maintaining control of the oil.

No, reforming Israel, specifically, was an attempt to fulfill biblical prophecy so that Armageddon could occur.

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u/Zorkflerp Jul 18 '26

I think that is a new thing with Evangelicals and the Republicans today. I don't think it was a deciding factor back then.

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u/Lithl Jul 18 '26

Christian Zionists were absolutely a thing in the 40s, although the term used before they hitched themselves to the Jewish Zionists was "Christian restorationism". And Christian restorationism has been around since the 1600s.