I’m in the UK. There are a lot of people who are voting purely on the issue of Israel. For all this time I’ve found that to be quite ridiculous, we have enough problems here so why would a conflict we have little involvement in be your primary issue?

I’m starting to see a justification for this view that’s less about support for Palestine. It’s absolutely unacceptable that our governments are being infiltrated and manipulated by foreign powers (Israel). The grip they have over almost the entire political spectrum has become so clear, and it’s genuinely terrifying. It’s also very obvious, more obvious in the UK, that the support is not ideological - it’s corruption, coercion, manipulation.

I think I’m potentially there now, I simply cannot vote for you if you’ve been corrupted by Israel.

What’s so mind blowing about it is that this would make a ton of sense if it was a big superpower like China or even a greatly declined one like Russia.

But, no, it’s “some random country” with a population smaller than Ohio that’s 5x smaller in land mass than Ohio.

Basically if you removed the entire greater Cleveland area from Ohio you’d get the population of Israel.

The global influence per capita is astounding.