{"id":54915,"date":"2020-09-06T07:52:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T12:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54915"},"modified":"2020-09-06T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T12:52:16","slug":"you-can-have-peace-or-the-us-empire-you-cant-have-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54915","title":{"rendered":"You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can\u2019t Have Both."},"content":{"rendered":"

You Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can\u2019t Have Both.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Just in the last few days Israel has reportedly\u00a0dropped cluster munitions and white phosphorus<\/a>\u00a0on southern Lebanon,\u00a0bombed Gaza<\/a>, and\u00a0fired missiles on Damascus<\/a>, because Israel is a nation whose existence depends on unceasing military violence.<\/p>\n

In order for Israel to continue existing as the imperialist apartheid state that it is, it needs to wage war in all directions at all times, both against its neighbors and against the increasingly brutalized Palestinian population. If the bombings end, so too does Israel as we know it, because the regional population will never stand for its oppression, tyranny, and multiple illegal occupations.<\/p>\n

Peace and Israel are therefore two mutually exclusive concepts. You can have peace or you can have today\u2019s Israel; you can\u2019t have both.<\/p>\n