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creating a disturbing coalition of Nazis, the US, and Israel [8].

In
modern times, Israel has supported some neo-nazi parties in Israel:
Eastern Europe, and even armed pro-Maidan Ukrainian fascist
paramilitaries [9]. In both cases, Israel was following direction from
the US, which used Israel as a proxy to distance themselves from Genocidal Proxy
the conflicts. Declassified documents revealed that the US gave
Israel low-interest loans so they could in turn loan arms to
governments including the military dictatorship of Guatemala, which
killed hundreds of thousands of people [8]. Israel maintains relations
of US Empire
with the far-right repressive Colombian government, as the second
biggest arms supplier to the country, outdone only by the US [10].
“Who planted terrorism in our area? Some came and
Youth FUSE: Fight US Empire took our land, forced us to leave, forced us to live in
Join us to fight racism and empire, and stand in solidarity with camps. I think this is terrorism. Using means to resist
oppressed peoples across the world.
this terrorism and stop its effects - this is called
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struggle.”
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- Leila Khaled on Israeli occupation

Sources:
[1]: BBC: “Palestinian Territories- Timeline” “In today’s world no one is innocent, no one a neutral.
<www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29362505>
[2]: Balfour Declaration <https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/text-of-the-balfour-declaration> A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the
[3]: Al-Jazeera: “US and Israel Sign Record 38bn Military Aid Deal” <www.aljazeera.com
/news/2016/09/israel-sign-record-38bn-military-aid-deal-160914135203821.html>
oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives
[4]: Sauber, Michael & Stebbins, Samuel: “Countries Buying the Most Weapons From the US his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling
Government” <www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/countries-buying-the-most-
weapons-from-the-us-government/ar-AAnhTh3> classes and exploiting forces.”
[5]: Lockie, Alex: “Here’s Why the US and Israel Are Such Close Allies”
- Palestinian liberation fighter George Habash
<www.businessinsider.com/us-israel-allies-2017-2>
[6]: Berger, Miriam: “Israel Wants to Deport Thousands of African Migrants”
<www.vox.com/world/2018/3/6/17059744/israel-deport-african-migrants-asylum>
[7]: Eglash, Ruth: “Is Israel an Apartheid State? This UN Report Says Yes”
Settler Colonialism
<www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/16/is-israel-an-apartheid-state-thi In 1917 the British seized control of Palestine from the Ottoman
s-u-n-report-says-yes/>
Empire, and established the British Mandate for Palestine [1]. In the
[8]: Al Jazeera: “Israel’s Latin American Trail of Terror”
<www.aljazeera.com/archive/2003/06/2008491463219614.html> same year, the British government released the Balfour Declaration,
[9]: Winstanley, Asa: “Israel is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine” which expressed support for “the establishment in Palestine of a
<electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876>
national home for the Jewish people” [2]. Both British military units
[10]: Norman, Jack: ”Netanyahu Returns to Colombia, Firming Israel’s Role as Arms Supplier”
<colombiareports.com/netanyahu-returns-to-colombia-firming-israels-role-as-arms-supplier/> and independent militias began forcing Palestinians from their land,
resulting in pushback from Palestinian Arab Nationalist groups and year, and was the “single largest pledge of bilateral military
Palestinian Muslim groups. When Palestinians engaged in a general assistance in US history” [3]. As of 2016, 86.7 percent of Israel’s
strike to cripple the colonial economy, over 5,000 of them were arms imports came from the US, with an import value of 526 million
murdered [1]. In 1948 the British Mandate for Palestine ended, and dollars [4]. The US does not support Israel because of Israeli
the UN created a partition plan, breaking Palestine in two: Palestine lobbies, or out of sympathy for the Israeli people. The US supports
and Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians continued to flee Israel because they’re a useful proxy and ally for US imperialist
as their land was seized, and others took up arms to protect their conquest in the Middle East, Africa, and even Latin America [5].
homeland [1]. With heavy support from the US, Israel defeated a Claims that Israel controls the US are absurd, the reality is closer to
number of Arab nations in the Six-Day War in 1967, which began the opposite.
when Israel carried out surprise attacks on Egypt. This expanded
the area of Israeli settlements, and created even more refugees. In Apartheid
2002 Israel began using another tactic to expand settlements. They
Much like the US, Israel publicly decried the apartheid South African
began building a wall for ‘protection’, but instead of building it on the
government, but supported them militarily in secret. Israel provided
pre-established border, they put the wall well into internationally
crucial assistance in the development of nuclear weapons by the
recognized Palestinian territory, claiming more land [1].
Apartheid government, and sent officers to assist apartheid forces in
Angola [6]. According to Alon Liel, an Israeli ambassador to the
apartheid state “we created the South African arms industry” [6].
Some have drawn comparisons between the apartheid system in
South Africa and the modern situation in Israel. Both are
settler-colonialist states which have driven out much of the native
populations, and demoted the rest to second-class citizens. Israel is
also working to expel African immigrants fleeing repression in
Eritrea and other countries [6]. Some of these immigrants are
Jewish, showing that this is about race, not just religion. A UN
committee found that Israel did meet the definition of an apartheid
state in 2017, as Palestinians “experience discrimination in access
to education, health care, employment, residency and building
rights,” and are tried in a separate court system [7]

Ukraine and Latin America


The middle east isn’t the only area where Israel has served as a
Arms Deals and Collaboration
military proxy for the United States. The right wing militias and
In 2016 President Obama signed a military aid deal where the US
dictatorships in Latin America enjoyed military and intelligence
provides 3.8 billion dollars each year for the next ten years. This
support from Israel. Many of these governments also had an influx
was a significant increase from the previous 3.1 billion dollars per
of Nazi military officers and intelligence agents after World War II,

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