Erik van Straten<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://retro.pizza/@textualdeviance" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>textualdeviance</span></a></span> wrote: <br>« My point is that the disproportionate attention paid to this, »</p><p>Indeed, the amount of attention payed to the disproportionate murder of 40.000+ people (including 15.000+ children) after the murder of 1.200 people after the murder of a lot more Palestinians than Israeli's (a Dutch newspaper in 2014: <a href="https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/08/15/de-kinderen-speelden-arabier-en-jood-en-toen-kwa-1409547-a61141" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nrc.nl/nieuws/2014/08/15/de-ki</span><span class="invisible">nderen-speelden-arabier-en-jood-en-toen-kwa-1409547-a61141</span></a>) *is* disproportionate (that is, insufficient).</p><p>« and the specifically anti-Democrat spin tied to it, is being driven primarily by right wingers who want Trump back in the WH. Note how there were crickets about Bibi being a monster when Trump was in office and palling around with him? »</p><p>For Palestinians your elections are about "as bad" (her husband is a Jew and she has a deal with AIPAC) and "worse".</p><p>At the research group of the Delft University where I worked one of my colleages was an American scientist. He used to *joke* that (his place of birth) "Mattoon is the center of the universe".</p><p>Why have you Americans become to really believe that the US is the center of the universe? </p><p>And why are you Americans so totally focused on democapitalistic elections, where the person who gets the most money from sponsors, wins?</p><p>And why are you not only blind to what happens in the rest of the world (blind if it poses no threat to you), but are you also failing to see that, even inside *each* of your States, there's nothing "United" anymore - and that the civil war question is not an "if" but a "when"?</p><p>Ever heard of divide and rule?</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WakeUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WakeUp</span></a></p>