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>>anigbr+(OP)
Coming from Europe and living in the US for the last couple of years, I'm shocked at how society here is clearly pro-israel.

It is very clear that in the US the life of an israel citizen is valued way above the one of a palestinian. It is sad to lose that level of humanity.

all of the discourse also conveniently ignores that Israel created a large-scale open-air prison in Gaza and removed any hope left for people living there.

>>goalon+pL
I think a lot of Americans either consciously or subconciosuly see the similarity between Israel's situation and the US's with regards to the natives. If there was a native independence movement that resorted to terrorism the us would flatten every reservation in the country.

>>HDThor+j71
There's definitely a similarity, but no, modern US would not behave like modern Israel is behaving. Our response to the 2020 riots was extremely hands-off relative to the level of violence of the rioters (who, in one instance, took cobtrol by force of a section of a major US city, declared secession, and held the area for several days [0]).

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protes...

>>George+Vn1
The Cap Hill protests in Seattle had nothing in common with October 7. The police just abandoned the east precinct after fighting with protesters for a few nights in a row. No one shot at them or took hostages. Certainly some rocks were thrown. And the police responded in force. Left wing and right wing people from places across the country that aren't Seattle make way more out of "CHOP" than it was.