Yes, the US are OG oppressors, but Israel is on the cutting edge. It is a material fact that Israelis train cops in the US in oppression.
I think that’s comparing apples to oranges. Training police in small arm tactics isn’t the same as teaching a government how to suppress an entire group of people.
Israel has yet to stabilize their monopoly on violence, something that the US has maintained for the last 200 years.
I’m not even saying that the US doesn’t benefit from supporting an apartheid state, and they very well may utilize them to explore new ways to suppress populations. However, this is not intrinsic to their material motivations.
If we perceive the scenario through the lens of historic materialism, it’s pretty apparent when and why the west began colonizing the region. It’s always been oil, and it will continue to be oil until we either exhaust the supply or the demand.
Yes, the US are OG oppressors, but Israel is on the cutting edge. It is a material fact that Israelis train cops in the US in oppression. New high tech techniques are tested in both places and shared. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/12/how-the-us-and-israel-exchange-tactics-in-violence-and-control
I think that’s comparing apples to oranges. Training police in small arm tactics isn’t the same as teaching a government how to suppress an entire group of people.
Israel has yet to stabilize their monopoly on violence, something that the US has maintained for the last 200 years.
I’m not even saying that the US doesn’t benefit from supporting an apartheid state, and they very well may utilize them to explore new ways to suppress populations. However, this is not intrinsic to their material motivations.
If we perceive the scenario through the lens of historic materialism, it’s pretty apparent when and why the west began colonizing the region. It’s always been oil, and it will continue to be oil until we either exhaust the supply or the demand.