{"id":58036,"date":"2021-05-25T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58036"},"modified":"2021-05-25T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:00:31","slug":"the-us-isnt-an-israel-puppet-israel-isnt-a-us-puppet-its-one-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58036","title":{"rendered":"The US Isn\u2019t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn\u2019t A US Puppet: It\u2019s One Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/05\/23\/the-us-isnt-an-israel-puppet-israel-isnt-a-us-puppet-its-one-empire\/\">The US Isn\u2019t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn\u2019t A US Puppet: It\u2019s One Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9945\" class=\"post-9945 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article category-news tag-america tag-empire tag-imperialism tag-israel tag-palestine\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-3.jpeg?fit=1024%2C740&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-3.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-3.jpeg?resize=300%2C217&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/medium-3.jpeg?resize=768%2C555&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"740\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/going_rogue\/the-us-isnt-an-israel-puppet-israel-isnt-a-us-puppet-its-one-empire\"><em>Listen to this article:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1053998593&amp;show_artwork=true&amp;maxwidth=1060&amp;maxheight=1000\" width=\"1060\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nearly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2021\/05\/22\/palestine-protest-almost-200000-people-march-through-central-london-14628158\/\">200,000 protesters<\/a>\u00a0attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-israel-narrative-is-crumbling\">losing control of the Israel narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The real consequence of this is that people will begin losing trust in the government and media institutions which support Israel, because without trust the empire can\u2019t propagandize people, and without the ability to propagandize us our rulers cannot rule.\u00a0There\u2019s no risk for Israel of losing US backing due to the US government suddenly evolving a conscience or listening to its constituents, that won\u2019t happen, but losing control of the narrative poses a major problem for the empire. Someone\u2019s image is going to have to change, and those changes could end up benefiting Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re already seeing this narrative management campaign come into play as mainstream outlets are now\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlanRMacLeod\/status\/1396173787469656066\">permitting some serious criticisms of Israel<\/a>. This is done cynically to prevent people from losing trust in propaganda institutions, but it also has real effects that can benefit real people.\u00a0This is a good example of how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/06\/30\/real-revolution-means-expanding-consciousness-both-outwardly-and-inwardly\/\">expanding consciousness<\/a>\u00a0is always beneficial, even on the most depraved institutions. The more aware the public becomes of abusive imperial power dynamics, the less abuse the empire can get away with. The empire losing control of the narrative is always a good thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1396165586942631937&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2021%2F05%2F23%2Fthe-us-isnt-an-israel-puppet-israel-isnt-a-us-puppet-its-one-empire%2F&amp;sessionId=c9370edc763fec6011c18a280fcf0c22124b40a8&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1396165586942631937\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As criticism of Israel\u2019s malfeasance becomes more widespread, so too do attempts to analyze exactly what Israel\u2019s role is on the world stage and why it receives so much support from the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Isn\u2019t An Israel Puppet, Israel Isn\u2019t A US Puppet: It\u2019s One Empire Listen to this article: Nearly\u00a0200,000 protesters\u00a0attended a pro-Palestine demonstration in Central London on Saturday afternoon, another clear sign that support for Palestinian rights is becoming increasingly mainstream and the imperialists are\u00a0losing control of the Israel narrative. The real consequence of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17039,259,1049,827],"class_list":["post-58036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-empire","tag-israel","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58037,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58036\/revisions\/58037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}