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Iran sent an open letter to the American people, and considering the literacy crisis within the United States, and the importance many of us feel of having this read not because we necessarily agree with all things but because it is an important piece of context understanding and International communication, I and my friend Elli, decided to read the entire thing out loud on video for easy consumption. IMPORTANT: I encourage all of you who have a platform, and are interested too, to share redistribute and publish these clips. Treat these as public property, context and credit welcome. I have provided a full clip library of clips I will slowly be releasing on page, both raw and edited for this purpose. This will be on Youtube (linked) and Substack (obviously) and importantly available on podcast form on both. Substack is how you can support work like this! Please subscribe however you canThe timestamps for each chapter are here: 0:00 An Open Letter to the Honorable People of the United States of America3:59 Why Is Iran the Victor?6:28 Concrete Evidence of Iran’s Victory14:07 The Main Factors Underpinning Iran’s Victory14:46 1. The Quran’s Superior Doctrine and Worldview17:09 2. The Iranian Nation’s Faith in and Unity around the Tenets of the Quran20:25 3. The Competent and Righteous Leadership of a Man of God25:00 The Main Cause Responsible for the Defeat of the U.S. and Israel30:41 The Common Pain That Iranians and Americans Share34:59 The Meaning of “Death to America”37:35 A Brief List of America’s Wrongs and Crimes in Its 73-Year History of Meddling in Iran40:56 Domestic Terrorism41:45 Eight Long Years of Devastating War43:36 Economic Sanctions, Psychological Warfare and Support for Terrorist Groups45:21 Birthing ISIS46:55 America’s Continued Hostility and the 12-Day War49:16 Armed Insurgency50:25 The Last War51:21 No Feeling of Hostility toward the American People52:43 The IRGC and Accusations of Terrorism57:35 Why Is the U.S. Government in Decline?58:13 America’s History of Aggression and Violence1:03:02 Empire of Lies1:04:05 The Lie of Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program1:07:30 The Biggest Lie1:09:34 The Vulgar Elements of Society in Positions of Power1:12:29 Preoccupation with Inessential Matters at the Expense of Society’s Essential Affairs1:22:48 How Can the U.S. Be Saved?1:31:45 How Will This War End?Please listen at your desired speed, and without further ado, here is the letter, of course no credit to myself in writing it LOL: Please share this to those who need to read itIn the Name of God, the All-Merciful, the Ever-MercifulAn Open Letter to the Honorable People of the United States of AmericaIndeed, God does not alter the affairs of a people until they alter their own affairs.—The Holy Qur’an 13:11To the honorable people of the United States of America—the scholars, the students, and the members of the media,We begin this letter by saluting the noble souls of God’s greatest prophets—Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad, may His peace and blessings be upon them all.Seven months ago, the U.S. military, launched a war, in violation of international law, against Iran by attacking an elementary school in Minab, murdering 168 innocent schoolchildren along with their teachers. Simultaneously, they attacked the offices of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei, martyring His Eminence and several members of his family, including his 14-month-old granddaughter.To date, the war has claimed the lives of more than 3600 Iranians, the vast majority of them civilians, including 400 children. Eight universities, three hospitals, and eight schools have been bombed. Yet, despite the unprecedented acts of cruelty and violence suffered by the Iranian nation during this war, the United States and Israel have suffered a crushing defeat, while the Islamic Republic of Iran has achieved a decisive victory.As the first casualty of the endless wars waged by the U.S. government has without exception been the truth, with the American people perpetually receiving the greatest harm as the result of the U.S. government’s campaign of deception, we wish to highlight some of the facts that are being withheld from the American public. After all, it is the American taxpayers who will have to bear the cost of America’s unjust wars, and so they deserve to know the truth.Let’s start by considering a few questions. Why has Iran prevailed in its conflict with the U.S., whose military enjoys an annual budget one hundred times that of Iran’s armed forces and possesses a stockpile of weapons and munitions that dwarfs what is available to the Iranian military by an enormously lopsided ratio?Why do Iranians chant, “Death to America”? Are they hostile to the American people?The U.S. government claims that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is a terrorist organization. Is this true?Why have the vast and extensive efforts of the U.S. government over the past nearly five decades to restore its domination over the Iranian people continually failed?Why is the U.S., if the present course continues, rapidly heading toward decline?How will the present war between Iran and the U.S. unfold and end? How can the American people protect themselves from the consequences of their government’s unjust aggression and shield themselves against the worst harms of the impending collapse?These are the questions we wish to consider in this letter. We will be candid and forthright. Should you doubt the honesty in the answers we provide to the foregoing questions, you can make a short trip to any part of Iran you wish—possibly even the Strait of Hormuz—and personally ascertain for yourselves the verity of our assertions.Why Is Iran the Victor?Why has Iran won the war despite having a defense budget only one percent that of the United States? Perhaps, the first reaction you may have to this question is credulity: “On what grounds do you claim that Iran is the victor?” To determine which side has won the war, we need to see which side has achieved its objectives. American and Israeli officials initially stated that the objectives of their assault on Iran were regime change and partition of Iran. However, after failing to achieve either objective, they started blurting out a changing list of objectives, announcing a new objective with every passing week, and this betrayed the absence of a coherent strategy in prosecuting the war.The U.S. President has expressed thirteen different targets for the war once the failure of the first two objectives was clear: Iran’s unconditional surrender; seizing Kharg Island and taking control of Iran’s oil; a ground invasion and occupation of Iranian territory; the destruction of all industrial infrastructure; the destruction of all energy infrastructure and returning Iran to the Stone Age; the destruction of Iranian civilization; launching Operation Freedom and taking control of the Strait of Hormuz; debilitating Iran’s economy by preventing all exports and imports; destroying Iran’s nuclear industry; destroying Iran’s missile and drone capabilities; annexing the Strait of Hormuz to U.S. territory and imposing a 20 percent toll; destroying Iran’s air defenses and taking control of Iranian airspace; and ending Iran’s support for Islamic resistance groups in the region.The United States and Israel expended thousands of bombs and missiles, striking government and residential buildings, dozens of less-advanced and lower-tier weapons-manufacturing facilities, and a number of decommissioned military installations. Yet, aside from damaging several buildings tied to Iran’s nuclear industry and a limited number of air-defense sites, they failed to achieve any of their declared objectives.Now, nearly seven months into this unjust war, the U.S. military—the largest and costliest military in the history of the world—has scored no wins, and that is all the more humiliating when we consider that it fought the war in collaboration with the Israeli military, which claims to be the world’s fourth-largest military power. Additionally, Israel and U.S. have failed to realize one of their ulterior motives in instigating this war—diverting the world’s attention from Israel’s horrific crimes against Palestinians. The issue of Israel’s genocide in Gaza remains at the forefront of global public concern.Concrete Evidence of Iran’s VictoryIran’s victory is not limited to thwarting the enemy in achieving its objectives. The armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran decimated American bases located in the Persian Gulf region. Iranian strikes neutralized a significant number of advanced American military assets—including more than 200 expensive strategic drones, 12 tanker and transport aircraft, 30 fighter jets, at least one AWACS aircraft, dozens of helicopters, and dozens of high-value radar and air-defense batteries—and substantially degraded the infrastructure at U.S. bases in the region, destroying more than 350 primary facilities and structures, while the operational capability of 18 U.S. bases was reduced to nearly zero. Arguably, however, the greatest consequence of this war has been the damage it has done to America’s reputation as the world’s sole superpower and the irreparable and gaping cracks it has created in the edifice of U.S. global hegemony. The U.S. can no longer boast of its status as the world’s hegemon. The points we will cover below make this truth sufficiently clear.More important than all of these, however, are Iran’s remarkable strategic wins.1. The gains the US government had made in its decades-long cognitive and cultural warfare in weakening Iran’s national and religious values and alienating Iranian youth from their cultural heritage were largely neutralized. America’s heinous attack on the Minab Elementary School and its grave miscalculation in aligning itself with the deeply unpopular Israeli regime and martyring the Supreme Leader made the criminal nature of America’s ruling class tangib

Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - https://pca.st/9c39a6q7Liberal Zionists have come on the scene responding to the exact same horrors we are seeing right now, but providing odd, limited, and embarrassing responses. So I wanted to respond to a few of them, show exactly what tools they're using, and reveal what this project actually serves: not to undermine the horrors we are seeing, but to allow them to continue.This video has some of our favorite characters, Jack Schlossberg, Cory Booker and, of course, JStreet, so I do hope you enjoy! As always, thank you for watching, and if you would like to support it is greatly appreciated - Substack is where my content will be especially in the case insta or tiktok finally get me ! This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willztalks.substack.com/subscribe

Long Time, No See - I have been busy studying, so quick thank you to everyone who is still subscribed here, your support is greatly appreciated and my long form content should be increasing for the foreseeable future - starting with this one! (I will of course be continuing my short form grind, as I seem to be unable to stop)Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - https://pca.st/9c39a6q7As you may have seen, Trump is inciting another Red Scare and Liberals are jumping on the opportunity to punch left as hard and fast as possible. In doing so, they demonstrate very clearly what their political project is - not to undermine the system that produced fascism or even to present a proper opposition to Fascism in our modern day, but act as a bulwark against the one ideology that actually undermines the fascism they claim to oppose: Socialism. And they are terrified by even a vague whispering of that term.,So I wanted to respond to some of the most heinous videos like this I have seen from mainstream accounts, and try to connect some of the dots for the tactics, strategies and arguments they are using, and how they are keeping the disgusting and harmful practice of McCarthyism alive and well. So here, I respond to three separate videos that I think highlight some of the most worrying disgusting and entirely predictable behavior of liberals who are scared shitless at the thought of even the word socialism being mentioned. My content is also in a massive period of experimentation, so please do let me know if you like this style of video, as it is comparably easy for me to make and I enjoy making them - in any case thanks for the support, and I hope you enjoy! This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit willztalks.substack.com/subscribe

The video/audio is better, more thought out and cognizable, I am extremely dyslexic so read at your own expense :) - Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - https://pca.st/9c39a6q7I recently fell down a rabbit hole of military recruiters, military wives, and military hustlers, and when I say fell I mean more jumped down, because I wanted a closer look into the largest terrorist organization in the world: the US DOD. And in my responses condemning their grooming of children in high schools, normalization of the extreme harm they commit daily, and rewriting of history to glorify war criminals, I kept hearing similar responses, and so this video is a response to those responses. So first I’ll make, though incompletely for lack of time, the pretty clear argument that the US military ought to be hated, and then go into why we should do that hating performatively and openly, firstly in response to these people defending the US military and then the things we gain from doing so.Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.Why DO I hate the US military:Because the US military and its proxies have been the most lethal entity the world has seen in the past 70 years, if not ever. With just retributive attacks for 9/11 having direct deaths of almost 1 million, with indirect deaths bringing the total to almost 5 million. Not a single one of those invasions was justified (insofar as any action of a genocidal empire could be justified) and every single one of them was criminal. With a think tank institute estimating between 7 and 13 million direct deaths in US-supported and -instigated armed conflicts and 6 to 10 million deaths.But these numbers are too big for anyone to fathom, and before people comment, if we use the methodology of the fascist Victims of Communism Foundation this number would be 100 quadrillion (because they’re just straight up making shit up), so no, I don’t want to hear any whataboutisms with communism.And what’s really important is not the number, right, one criminal death is as significant as the other, but that this is the function of the US military: to protect capital abroad through violence and occupation, still occupying a majority of the countries in the world, and the arms of the American state being as expansive as any state apparatus the world has ever seen. This level of control, carnage, and harm should be condemned. This is an exploration not of whether it ought to be but of why this obvious conclusion isn’t taken.And the basic conclusion, to ruin it all, is that Americans identify with the criminals more than their victims, and if you humanize those in the Global South, the primary victims of US imperialism, even vaguely as much as you humanize the people that are doing the violence against them, then this worldview has absolutely no ability to maintain itself. If you use the language to talk about the US military, even domestically, that the US State Department uses to talk about other military apparatuses across the world, then this worldview falls apart. So I want to go into the actual discussions I’ve had and the actual points (that I think boil down to but are not limited to the above point) about why exactly even seeming progressives shiver at the concept of calling a spade a spade and a soldier a war criminal.But the Poverty Draft: “You don’t understand, you have to be nice to them”Whenever I do anti-US military propaganda I inevitably get the well-meaning, or sometimes not well-meaning, response from a “veteran,” military wife, or even self-apologetic current military member that goes something like this: I agree the US military is bad (they might even go so far as to recognize it as a war criminal or a terrorist army) but the people in it are not the thing itself, and in fact many of them are victims of the exact propaganda you’re talking about, so why are you attacking them? Actually, many of them are victims not only of the propaganda but are particularly so because of the targeting of impoverished and lower-class schools to recruit from.There are many responses to this, the most common of which I think tends to be “it doesn’t matter how much you need to feed your children, it never gives you a right to kill other people’s children,” or my favorite, “would you say this about any other terrorist group in the world? Would you say this about the IDF? ISIS? Because Israelis certainly do.” Both of these reassert the American exceptionalism and the extreme nature of American crimes, but I don’t think they hit the problem, which is that the archetypal apologetic military wife could actually say, yeah, I do actually say that, I try and understand everyone, and no, I don’t think it’s a justified move, I just think that attacking them doesn’t help the problem because you should be attacking the system even if what individual military members are doing is wrong.And that is why what I’ve tried to start moving toward is this response: if you really believed that they were victims of propaganda, me attacking the perpetrators of that propaganda would not bother you. I.e., if this argument is coming in good faith to protect people not just currently in the military but all people who might be susceptible to the pro-military propaganda out there, then me undermining it and using social tools that we have like shame and ostracization and exposure to undermine that glorification and cool factor that such recruitment ads often project would not be a concern. In fact, the reasonable response would be “wow, I’m so happy, because if my husband had seen this when he was making the mistake of joining the military maybe he wouldn’t have made that mistake,” or better yet, decentering your “victimized” war criminal in the first place: this may hurt my feelings but if it’s effective in undermining recruitment, that saves lives.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The Positive Argument for Being Mean to ThemWhy do I care? What’s the goal? In deeply Israeli-esque arguments, I consistently hear from low-level military recruits or, worse, recruiters whenever I call them out on glorifying the military, that they are just doing their job, just as Israelis glorifying Israel who I confront with the crimes they normalize consistently remind us that the state of Israel will not stop its genocide merely because we comment a Palestinian flag under a post. In Tel Aviv, soldiers in America keep reminding us that they’ll continue doing their jobs even if some random commenters that totally don’t bother them tell them they’re doing war crimes. And actually they tell us in a very Democrat way that if we keep on hating on them they’ll just become worse. And I don’t know about those individuals and that might be true for them, but if you were going to become a war criminal more because of internet comments I think you’re going to become a war criminal anyway, so what exactly is my goal?Well, my goal is to use the exact same levers that the empire is using to recruit people into their org to prevent that recruitment. And if you look at military advertisement, it is very clear that they are not just advertising that you will be able to feed your children, they’re not just advertising that you will be able to feed yourself or go to college. They certainly do mention that, but most important, as was true when Israel is trying to compel people to make aliyah, Rhodesia was trying to compel young white supremacists to join the Rhodesian Bush War, and army recruiters are trying to recruit you to the Navy: they care about looking cool, they care about bringing glory, and most importantly they want you to feel normal. Superior but normal. Whether that looks like feeling successful, or marrying or dating someone hot, or doing what you already had in you.These things matter, but importantly these things are in our control. We can’t stop them from spending on education or making it so impossible to live in America that the only way some people see (possibly rightly but mostly wrongly) the only way they can live or even move up on the ladder is to go tear other people down their ladder in the Middle East. But we can control whether downwardly mobile middle-class people will feel accepted, tolerated, and even successful if they join the military. And that’s why they’re so sensitive to the internet comments, that’s why Republicans lose their mind when you stomp on a flag or don’t salute a veteran. It is incredibly hard to convince someone to put their life on the line simply because they want money, but if your family will love you more, if your wife will be hotter, and if you will feel more complete and happy, yeah, maybe self-sacrifice can be a part of that: but it requires that you identify your needs and wants with that of the military. And if we elucidate to them as clearly as possible that that is not true (in the direct inverse of what the military propaganda is trying to convince them), then we are doing our jobs.The Possible RiskNow to actually address the naysayers: the form of the argument tends to come, sure, you could say all of this, but what actually ends up happening is you remove their ability to have an off-ramp. And this is true interpersonally. It is understandable that if you think your friendship with someone can be leveraged to help them make a better decision, as is done in some antifa circles, then keep that friendship and leverage it as such. Same thing with familial relationships: if you can stop your brother from becoming a Nazi, or even if you have to do the labor of pulling him out of a Nazi cult, do that. But will you promote that publicly? Will you say that that’s the only way you can prevent Nazis, or will you recognize that condemning and ostracizing them serves the purpose

The video/audio is better, more thought out and cognizable, I am extremely dyslexic so read at your own expense :) - Listen or Watch as a podcast on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5u4DM5WN78whovrOOU_9pQqJqYGUazgt - OR even better add RSS Feed directly to on Pocket Cast - https://pca.st/9c39a6q7Stop asking people if they are America first or Israel first - we don’t want either.I’ve heard this question asked consistently, by likely well-meaning and otherwise aligned people, but we truly have got to stop and this little blurb is my view as to why and what we gain from changing, and what we lose from failing to. Firstly, my basic thesis - anything you say about an IDF soldier, can and should be said about an American soldier. Anything you say about Israeli politics can and should be said about American politics. And anything you say about an Israeli can and should be said about an American (specifically a white American) American nationalism is not better than Zionism, and in the current political context they are almost indistinguishable.If you are ready aligned on that, fantastic, this essay is a set of arguments for that that you might find helpful - if you aren’t sticking around and you might be compelled.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.What is the phenomenon?In my time in anti-zionist spaces especially online there have become two distinct views: Israel runs America and America runs Israel. I am staunchly and principally on the America runs Israel side, and I think literally everything about reality demonstrates this - From the fact that things like AIPAC are primarily funded by Americans, and American Christian Zionist at that, the fact that people like Henry Kissinger described Israel explicitly as doing Americans bidding and aims, and the fact that even more low-key imperialists like Joe Biden, famously said that if Israel did not exist America would create one.I’m not going to contend substantially with the overwhelming often vacuous and often repackaged anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Israel controlling America. From my view, having clear eyes and a functioning mind is enough to demonstrate that a small country with an almost entirely imported economy and dependent defense infrastructure is not the one in control of the largest Empire the world has ever seen. Almost every single proof of this supposed assertion is better understood as the simple alignment of Israel’s interest with the oligarch class of America’s interests, which I once again feel called to point out are majority Christian. If you have a serious contention on this, I would love to see an actual fundamental response and one that does not conflate any jew acting ever with Israel acting always. Until then I’m going to move on and presume we are all on the same page on basic material reality.The consequence though of falling into this other camp of not viewing Israel is an expansion of America, but either as a unique unexplained evil or as a unique unexplained evil controlling America, is lots of very compelling viral clips and sound bites that I bet we have all heard such as “ do you believe in America first or Israel first?”, but there are also some obvious ones that I often run into, such as the idea that Israel pulled us into the Iraq War or that Israel alone pulled us into this current war on Iran. so that’s what I’m talking about, and as I flesh it out I hope you can recognize both the communities that engage in it and the particular taste of that ideology.What’s the Danger? Now you may be saying what’s the problem, don’t we want to undermine Israel? even if we think that there’s some fundamental different theoretical explanation for the power relationship between these two entities, why does it matter? Why do you care? Well my friends I have a list for that too.The dangerous threefold: Liberal Co-optation of Anti-Zionism, Fascist co-optation of anti-zionism, and Immediate and Actual Harm.Liberal Co-optation of Anti-ZionismThis is the one that keeps me up at night: Liberal politicians coming out condemning Israel for pulling us into the Iraq War, condemning Israel for pulling us into the conflict with Iran, condemning arms to Israel, and saying that American Military members should have been the ones with those arms. What this does is it satiates the anti-imperial impulses that observations of the extreme Imperial violence that we are seeing out of Israel, but it allows the imperialists themselves to completely reconfigure.Take for example of recent post that I saw out of a progressive candidate who was asking the question “Does South Korea have the right to exist” and idealizing the fact that South Korea pays for its own defense, suggesting that Israel should do the same. This is not Anti-Zionism, this is alter-zionism - instead of directly funding isreal, we should indirectly boost its economy and its industry through free trade agreements and selective sanctions of its competitors like we do for South Korea. We should Aid and abett it in its founding genocide (as we did for South Korea) and then provide continued extreme diplomatic support for them.This is doing what liberals do best, which is take the demands of the populist left, give the least but important concessions that they can give - direct arms sales - and maintain and obscure the system upon which that very violence was predicated. this has the largest chance of demobilizing revolutionary movements, of forcing them to a table where they are not in a seat, but they are on the menu, and creating social norms to shame and limit them at the least cost to the empire.Fascist co-optation of anti-zionismThis one is slightly more obvious, and thus doesn’t keep me up at night as much ( though likely because I am also privileged to not be a direct target of it… yet) - this is the one we have all seen, Nick Fuentes proclaiming how Israel controls America and is forcing us to do all the bad things we did, from slavery to the Vietnam War to (from his view) a bad side in World War II. We see how he shifts basic populism against American imperialism into specific anti-semitism with a very cohesive yet entirely nonsensical worldview. It provides explanatory ease to people who are seeing the harm and don’t want to be responsible for them, an ease that is simply not present from my worldview where I as a tax paying american do unfortunately get moral obligations to make the world better from the harm my state has caused.There is occasionally though luckily quite quiet a left anti-zionist voice that perks up its head and notices that all of these Nazis say they want to work with us, and in fact quite often beg us to work with them… why are we not taking advantage? We only have to sacrifice our trans comrades and our Jewish comrades and our muslim comrades? Is that too much to ask for the liberation of Palestine? are you being pragmatic, are you being a purist?Now of course I phrased that in a way that it should be obvious what I think of that argument - poor - but it still must be contended with and the obvious answer is that it cost us too much to work with them, because it cost us everything we have. The only Power that leftists have is our solidarity the only Power that leftists have is are clear-eyed worldview, and if we sacrifice that then we simply cease to functionally be leftists, we could be Strasserists, but just as America Firsters ultimately get humbled and be forced to be honest about their imperial aspirations: Nick admitting he supports the imperial invasion of Venezuela, We would be an instrument in a movement that we wouldn’t control but would control us. which leads me to the Third, and final on my non-exhaustive list -Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.Real Immediate Harm -Every second we engage in American nationalism ( the words America First leaving our mouth) we are causing harm to the people that are harmed in the name of American exceptionalism. invading Iran is in fact putting America first, because what America is, is the American Empire which is predicated upon violence to countries like Iran. Every second we forget that Nick Fuentes does not believe in our Jewish comrades’ right to live, we do harm to our Jewish comrades, and we enable zionists as well to degrade our movement in the name of countering his antisemitism ( not that they need much enabling In fairness). And as I will set out below, we are simply failing to be effective We do not at least internally and ideologically reject this nationalism because doing so allows us both rhetorically educatively and practically to be more effective not only in our anti-zionism but our anti-imperialism as a whole.So what do I do then?Don’t resist the differences between America and Israel. There is often a knee jerk, though Justified response to this to suggest that that is merely a Zionist talking point that downplays israelis crime. though I am compelled to tell you that failing to recognize the extreme intrinsic violence in Americanism just as there is in israelism, downplays that violence and those victims of americanism. Instead of downplaying one extreme Colonial violence off of the other you can understand them together - you can understand how America First genuinely does lead to Israel first. how the genocide of the natives was a playbook for genocidaires of the world, how the concentration camps and the slave holding is a playbook for what’s going on in the West Bank and what’s going on in Gaza. Instead of working to reach American nationalists and convince them to work against what is fundamentally a benefit to their ideology ( as American nationalism merely is the ideology of worshiping Violence by America, specifically white americans) we ought to work as effectively and fundamentally against them