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🎗 🇺🇸 🧕 Zohran Mamdani says that the real victim of 9/11 was his aunt because she was too afraid to ride the subway in her hijab.

📎 Greg Price

🎗 🇺🇸 🧕 George W. Bush says Americans "don't pay attention to the lesson of 9/11"

"Our nation occasionally goes through isolationist periods, where the attitude is, 'Well, we've got too many problems at home. Therefore, who cares about what happens overseas?'" said Bush, who wasn't yet eight months into his first term when the attacks occurred. "Which really means to me they just don't pay attention to the lessons of 9/11, because what happens overseas matters to our national security at home."

He said that as people are "struggling against tyranny, it makes sense" for the U.S. to get involved.

"We don't have to send troops," Bush said. "We ought to at least stand with them and stand beside them because this is what we went through 250 years ago. And again, it's a belief that everybody wants to be free and we saw that in Afghanistan."

Bush launched the war in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks, and then supported the development of a democratic government after years of humanitarian abuses by the Taliban. But the conflict dragged on for 20 years, becoming America's longest war, until the U.S. withdrew and Afghanistan came under Taliban rule again in 2021.

He also also recalled how he visited a mosque shortly after the attacks "because I was deeply concerned about stories of women of color being harassed at shopping centers, particularly in Michigan."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-w-bush-911-attacks-condoleezza-rice/

📝 🇩🇪 🇮🇱 AfD politician Dr. Dominik Kaufner on X:
A small reminder that German (national) and Israeli (Zionist) interests are in conflict, not only from a strategic but also from an ideological perspective.

🤖 Dr. Dominik Kaufner argues that German national and Israeli Zionist interests are ideologically and strategically in conflict. He contends that while Israel relies on Germany for free arms and potential support for Palestinian expulsion, the German establishment’s role is to legitimize Israeli expansion through postwar guilt. Kaufner asserts that Germany has no authentic interest in this asymmetric relationship beyond psychological processing, noting that Israel views an AfD-driven normalization of German politics as a direct threat to this system. - Cocoon AI Summary

Because on the one hand, Israel needs the FRG to a) receive armaments goods (for free) and b) potentially be able to expel and relocate the Palestinians. On the other hand, the FRG establishment has the task c) to maintain the postwar legitimation of Israeli expansion: because of our inextinguishable guilt, everything Israel does is an existential struggle and therefore always justified.

For Germany, there is really no authentic interest in this asymmetric bond with Israel—except for the psychological function for past-processing neurotics. In Israel, people are therefore fully aware that a German normalization through the AfD would precisely call this system into question.

So don't expect any applause from Tel Aviv—no matter how often you trot out the slogans about the "only democracy in the Middle East" or the "bulwark against Islamism."

📝 FRG = Federal Republic of Germany (official country name).

📎 Dr. Dominik Kaufner