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"On Monday, May 14, we were treated to the scenes of tear gas, massive smoke, thousands protesting… and massive violence by the Israeli army, as some 60 Gazans were killed and over 2500 wounded or treated for tear gas. Meanwhile, just 49 miles away, the “graceful” Ivanka Trump (as one newspaper referred to her) and Jared Kushner were living in a different world as they presided over the opening of the new US embassy in Jerusalem. The opening and closing benedictions (what happened to the separation of church and state?) were given by the fundamentalist preachers Robert Jeffress and John Hagee. The presence of Hagee, who has said that the Holocaust was part of god’s plan, was welcomed by Netanyahu and company. After all, these religious bigots and fanatics are Netanyahu’s closest allies in the United States. However, these twin events have set off tremors throughout the world, especially the Muslim world. Even Netanyahu’s ally Erdogan in Turkey felt forced to recall the Turkish ambassador to Israel in protest. This shows the enormous anger that must be felt by Muslim people the world over at what the racist, expansionist state of Israel is doing. How did we get to this point, where is it headed, and what is the socialist position on this? To answer that, we have to see the situation not as something unique to Israel. Rather, what is happening in Israel and the role Israeli capitalism is playing is the most extreme, the most concentrated expression of the crisis of world capitalism." Read entire article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/05/24/israel-as-the-most-extreme-expression-of-the-crisis-of-world-capitalism/ John Reimann _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
