Why? The same reason South Africa put on a media blitz during apartheid.
When your country gets worldwide news for atrocities it is committing, leadership in those countries will do anything to change public opinion. (Except stop committing atrocities, I suppose.)
whyage 22 hours ago [-]
At the same time, the US president is interfering in the elections in Israel.
ShinyLeftPad 22 hours ago [-]
the more consequential country you are, the more pressure from inside and outside on getting particular government elected. for US that's entire world... Remember Russian bots on Twitter?
Waterluvian 22 hours ago [-]
It’s more about being manipulable, not consequential. They want a strong position for a president that they can control. It’s just plain good strategy.
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bikvfeee 22 hours ago [-]
"the Israel lobby and us foreign policy", look it up.
> Alan Dershowitz opined that criticizing the Israel lobby promoted a charged debate about what constitutes antisemitic conspiracy theorizing.[31] Early drafts of this were sent to Jeffrey Epstein; at the time, Dershowitz was Epstein's lawyer during a child sex trafficking case.
throwjan 22 hours ago [-]
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bediger4000 22 hours ago [-]
Wow, this was unheard of before 2016. This is real, foreign, election interference.
causesothere 22 hours ago [-]
This was absolutely happening before 2016. It might have been unheard of, to you, prior to then. But countries have tried to change the results of US elections since forever.
asanineassasin 21 hours ago [-]
Qatar sponsored river to the sea-prople have actually tried to take over several countries were they where accepted as refugees and guests. Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and now france and england. Always with enormous fanfare in the media. Its nice from israel to try spare the us and europe this bout of fanaticism. With such allies who needs enemies?
When your country gets worldwide news for atrocities it is committing, leadership in those countries will do anything to change public opinion. (Except stop committing atrocities, I suppose.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Israel_Lobby_and_U.S._Fore...
> Alan Dershowitz opined that criticizing the Israel lobby promoted a charged debate about what constitutes antisemitic conspiracy theorizing.[31] Early drafts of this were sent to Jeffrey Epstein; at the time, Dershowitz was Epstein's lawyer during a child sex trafficking case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_Palestinians_from...
And of course lies about what they did during the civil war in the wikki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Lebanon
Spoilers: They murdered christians and used the host country to wage guerrilla warfare on issrael, murdering southern villages in the process