Unless you consider how beneficial these wars were for the Israel first politicians and lobbies

This history of lgbt acceptance and religion is complicated, but that is beside the point here.

Colonialism and Imperialism are absolutely to blame for the reasons described prior, they have significantly halted progress made in civil rights within their target countries. A foreign power mass executing your people makes it difficult for the conversion to be anything but liberation.

If you want to learn more about the psychology of colonialism on the colonized, and how that influences social beliefs and revolutionary resistance, read anything Frantz Fanon.

To put it simply, when western forces colonize a people, they simultaneously suppress and frame their traditions as barbaric and prop up their own western values as civilized. The colonized people experience unconscionable violence from these western forces, seeing first hand the inhumanity being caused in the name of ‘civility’. Naturally, as anti-colonial resistance mounts, the most anti-West voices gain the most momentum, seen as less corruptible to those western forces and more unwavering in their resistance. So it’s no surprise that reactionary attitudes on civil rights come as a reaction to western colonialism.

It’s only once a people are able to reclaim their sovereignty that civil rights movements are able to build, fight for, and win those rights domestically. Without being co-opted by foreign powers with the only goal of destabilization.

I wasn’t aware of the connection myself until I read Fanon’s works at length

The suppression of those traditions, on Fanon’s account, marginalize or push tradition into secret—or, perhaps, keep the tradition in the open, but always as backward, abject, and contrary to modernity. This means tradition is still alive, not a mirage, and as alive also valued deeply by communities resisting colonial rule. Such traditions can be instrumentalized for the sake of revolutionary action, only to be evaluated after colonialism for their suitability in a postcolonial nation and culture. The same logic is elaborated in “The Algerian Family”, where Fanon explores the traditional structure of families in Algeria, in particular how those families set gender identity, power, marriage, and reproduction in fixed roles. Revolutionary families, he argues, identify these fixed roles and break with them while also maintaining a conviction that their practices are Algerian—that is, Algerian in the new sense.

• https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frantz-fanon/#Alge

I just added the book title and also a great video by Adi Callai on the subject, both have been invaluable imo

Zionism has it’s roots in Christianity. In short, it began purely religious, expanded to include Jewish Zionists early on, notably in the wake of pogroms in Europe, expanded to include secular justifications as European powers (Britain in particular) were sold onto the project. In any case, Antisemitism was Weaponized to benefit the Zionist project, at the expense of the safety of the Jewish diaspora.

Ilan Pappe has a very detailed book about the origins to the modern day lobbying apparatus: Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic

I haven’t read too much of the book yet, so that’s the best summary I can come up with right now

Zionism began as an evangelical Christian concept and later an active project. It appeared as a religious appeal to the faithful both to aid and be prepared for the ‘return of the Jews’ to Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state there as the fulfilment of God’s will. But soon after, the Christians involved in this campaign politicised this ‘theology of return’, once they realised that a similar notion had begun to emerge among European Jews, who despaired of finding a solution to the never-ending anti-Semitism on the continent. The Christian desire to see a Jewish Palestine coincided with a similar European Jewish vision in the late nineteenth century.

Zionism is not Judaism

They’ve already gotten away with one holocaust underway so far

But if the Lebanese army pushed back, that might anger their US overlords

Not Canada centered, but Blowback is a great podcast for a detailed account of US foreign policy, such as Iraq, Cuba, Afghanistan, Korea, and Cambodia. Created by 2 journalists, every season has sources. Can be found anywhere you get podcasts

Ah, totally fair

Although oil can also be critical for the creation of many drugs as well

It is the sea passage, that being blocked causes global supply chain shortages, causing major energy and manufacturing problems more many countries globally, which also impacts the resources of countries not directly affected.

The interconnectedness of global Capital has been turned against itself

That’s odd, it seems to work for me so I’m not sure how to fix the link. But I put together a list of works a while back, some have links but they may not all be active. Libgen or Anna’s Archive have reliable copies tho.

While less formal, https://decolonizepalestine.com/ has an incredibly comprehensive collection of info. Everything I’ve tried to fact check on there has come up true at least.

Israel is based on Zionism, a fascist ideology focused on settler colonialism

Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian that has written extensively on the subject, I highly recommend his works if you’re interested in learning more

Otherwise known as a toll or a tax for passage

And a yellow ribbon pin instead if the cap

Only US outlets were reporting that, yet ships were still passing

I doubt they will unless the US invades, so we’ll see

More likely to assist the settler violence

At that point they’re villains for the love of the game

Rotating Villain once again?