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Why Is Israel Running TV Ads in Iowa Ahead of the Midterms? (zeteo.com)

42 points by grandpajoey 9h ago | 12 comments

causesothere 5h ago
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.)

bikvfeee 6h ago
"the Israel lobby and us foreign policy", look it up.
grandpajoey 5h ago
Thanks for the recommendation:

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.

whyage 6h ago
At the same time, the US president is interfering in the elections in Israel.
ShinyLeftPad 6h 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 6h 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.
bediger4000 6h ago
Wow, this was unheard of before 2016. This is real, foreign, election interference.
causesothere 6h 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 5h 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?

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

darfo 9h ago
Paywalled
grandpajoey 9h ago
Weird, not for me. Here's an archive: https://archive.is/aiGLX
darfo 8h ago
Thanks for the link, I see my mistake now. When I got the red box that said "This post is for paid subscribers." I assumed there was more to follow.