I grit my teeth when various members of Congress and academics excoriate Putin’s actions in Ukraine, with nary a word about the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide. Not to my surprise, I was branded a Putin lover when I opined that Netanyahu is far worse than Putin, but my critics were strangely silent when I asked them to compare Kyiv to Rafah…
I grit my teeth when various members of Congress and academics excoriate Putin’s actions in Ukraine, with nary a word about the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide. Not to my surprise, I was branded a Putin lover when I opined that Netanyahu is far worse than Putin, but my critics were strangely silent when I asked them to compare Kyiv to Rafah. With a pitiful number of exceptions, U.S. politicians are owned by Israel, and America has become Israel’s client state - not the reverse.
I will never apologize for voting against every candidate who backed Israel. And I will never understand why my First Amendment rights are being taken away for daring to criticize a genocidal, apartheid regime, when I’m free to criticize every country in the world, including my own.
The huge difference for me is that Netanyahu is killing others with relatively low casualties on the Israeli side—only a few hundred dead soldiers and many wounded. That’s nothing compared to what Putin and Russia are doing. Just look at how they treat their own people. I still have videos on my phone of Russian military blocking units shooting their own soldiers trying to retreat.
Both are monsters. Somehow, I’m more fine with a monster killing others than one slaughtering its own people—the ones it’s actually responsible for.
I grit my teeth when various members of Congress and academics excoriate Putin’s actions in Ukraine, with nary a word about the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide. Not to my surprise, I was branded a Putin lover when I opined that Netanyahu is far worse than Putin, but my critics were strangely silent when I asked them to compare Kyiv to Rafah. With a pitiful number of exceptions, U.S. politicians are owned by Israel, and America has become Israel’s client state - not the reverse.
I will never apologize for voting against every candidate who backed Israel. And I will never understand why my First Amendment rights are being taken away for daring to criticize a genocidal, apartheid regime, when I’m free to criticize every country in the world, including my own.
What if we compare Bakhmut to Rafah?
The huge difference for me is that Netanyahu is killing others with relatively low casualties on the Israeli side—only a few hundred dead soldiers and many wounded. That’s nothing compared to what Putin and Russia are doing. Just look at how they treat their own people. I still have videos on my phone of Russian military blocking units shooting their own soldiers trying to retreat.
Both are monsters. Somehow, I’m more fine with a monster killing others than one slaughtering its own people—the ones it’s actually responsible for.