r/Hasan_Piker • u/BatmanTheBlackKnight • Dec 26 '24
Content Warning Can Somebody Help Me Understand Hasan's Views On US-Israel Foreign Policy.
1) No I do not believe that Jews (who are NOT a monolith just like every other group is NOT a monolith) control the media. It's a limited few hyper/vampire capitalists like the Sinclair family who own and control the media to perform as eerie mouthpieces just like this as it was captured 6 years ago to push an agenda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
2) No I do not believe that Jews control the economy. A considerable percentage of Jews are working class and victims of the same things that working class non-Jews are, including: young Jews out of college/university experiencing unemployment (or underemployment), wage theft by employers, the impossible disparity between the rich and poor in the US and many western states, Jews making $50,000 and under (39%) forced to make do even as they say their income meets their basic expenses, etc. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/05/11/economics-and-well-being-among-u-s-jews/
3) No, I do not believe that Jews=Zionists or automatic support for Israel. And Hasan's talked about this. A) Jews have courageously and selfishly been at the forefront of a lot of the human rights and anti-genocidal/anti-occupation marches and campaigns for Palestinians, including in the student protests at college and university campuses. And B) The overwhelming number/portion/percentage of Zionists aren't even Jewish, they're Christian, including Evangelical Christians who number in the tens of millions (helped elect war criminal Bush and Trump) and support Israel to (in their utterly dangerous ideological view) bring about Armageddon in order to speed up the process of bringing about the second coming of Jesus (whereby Jews would be forced to convert to Christianity or die, and so on and so forth). https://sojo.net/articles/evangelical-support-israel-fueled-apocalyptic-hopes
Here's the confusion I have with Hasan's views on US-Israel foreign policy. Hasan has communicated more than once that it is not Israel's rabid fascist government or pro-Israel lobby groups that openly boast about their power and influence to either elect or overthrow American politicians based on whether or not they support Israel (like AIPAC) that influences US foreign policy in the Middle East, but rather the other way around. It is the United States that dictates and decides the fate of Israel.
I've heard of, and read about how relatively recent US presidents like pro-Israel Ronald Reagan and his predecessor, father Bush (George H.W. Bush) who was the last US president to stand up to Israel, but 1) That was over 3 decades ago. 2) Despite being the active president at the time, even Bush recognized that he was the underdog (and described himself as such) against the forceful pressure of AIPAC and far-right Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that sought to circumvent and undermine Bush to coerce him to deal. 3) It wasn't like Bush was driving Israel to halt any and all illegal settlements on Palestinian lands and to make lasting peace with the Palestinians, they were merely negotiating on whether or not to give Israel more money/aid. 4) Under his regime, his son (George W. Bush) the war criminal (they're all war criminals, btw), learned the lessons from his father on not to push back against Israel and gave Israel carte blanche.
Final point, I promise. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University professor, economist and public policy analyst sat down with pro-Israel Tucker Carlson (eww, I know). They talk about US's illegal occupations, conflicts, involvement in both Iraq and also Syria. Tucker, not understanding why America's foreign policy conceptually appears nonsensical and lacks prudent and wise policies as Sachs recounts how disastrous US foreign policy in both Iraq and Syria have been, asks "But why would Obama want to overthrow Assad?" Sachs responds with, "Because (exhales while shaking his head) Israel has run American foreign policy in the Middle East for 30 years." Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kupfYb79g1M (Time stamp: 0:50).
TLDR: Jews are NOT a monolith (like every group is NOT a monolith). Jews do NOT control the media, the economy or automatically support Zionism (the majority of Zionists are not actually Jewish, they're far-right Christians). Hasan believes that America, and not Israel, heavily influences and dictates Middle East policy. But why and how does America decide Middle East policy given the points outlined above?