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In reply to the discussion: Massive misinformation campaign against Israel. [View all]bigtree
(86,069 posts)...can you see that there is opinionating from both sides which is inflammatory and misinforming?
I don't see where DSA is some major influence or even one of the worst propagandists on this conflict, not to mention one with any significant influence on actions or events at all.
The people I'd pay attention to are the ones actually directing action or events, like our respective governments and what they're communicating. That's far more consequential than what some political org. posts on the internet.
Moreover, highlighting DSA looks to be a U.S. political grudge match which is no stranger here at DU, so it didn't have the same import to me when I read your caution about some nefarious ideas being spread on this site that supposedly originates in Russia, blah, blah, blah.
Yes, these misinforming influences exist on the internet. They aren't restricted to DSA. Many of them come from Israel, a completely different country than most of us here live in.
It just seems odd portraying a conflict to Americans that has seen atrocities committed by both Hamas militants and the Israeli military as some kind of loyalty test, often accompanied by these devastating images of dead civilians on either side of the divide as justification for the animus and urging on to more destabilizing violence.
That's the view most of us in the U.S. have been witness to for decades and decades. There isn't likely going to be total unanimity among Americans to what many believe is a self-perpetuating conflict because of the wanton violence and civilian deaths.
I recognize that Israel's supporters in this country want a consensus of sympathy from the nation's citizens to go with the unwavering support for Israel that's seen no exception from the current WH.
I don't think there should be an expectation that support will be automatic from the population, or that the unwavering position of our government is some sort of fealty on the behalf of our countryfolk.
We're not Israel, not even close. We have our own political system that determines the course of our government's response which depends on active voices which are expected to reconcile difference and disagreements, not to simply cast opposition as enemies or subversive and rally against them.
It's a silly piffle to posit that the views of some political org. you disagree with is a pernicious threat to interests of which you're free in this country to express your own opinion. That's simply the nature of politics.