Tuesday, July 29, 2025

the far right is a bunch of nazis and it sees an opportunity to align with right-wing palestinian extremists, which it agrees with on most issues. 

the right being pro-gaza is not surprising; that is conservatives in the west aligning with conservatives in the middle east and makes clear ideological sense.

what has never made sense is the right's phony embrace of israel, which was not the case in the goldwater or nixon years, but is something that developed out of the oil politics of the 1970s, which young people don't remember or understand well. and what doesn't make sense is the fake left's alignment with palestine as an indigenous movement, in opposition to all facts in relation to the matter.

if this is flipping back over and conservative muslims are realizing that they align more with the right than the centre, that's of benefit to the left, which is suspended in amber until it can get past this attempt to absorb an ethnic group because it's brown, in the face of their own opposition to it.

the story here isn't about the right turning on israel, it's about the conservative movement embracing islam as it's own, which it should have done 20 years ago because it is.