130 Mennonites arrested in DC for Gaza protest

[temporal1]

Any reason why they couldn't protest legally?

It seems to me that we as a nation tend to get involved in other countries' business a bit too much.

This situation with Israel is hard to witness.
Israel was attacked, it’s not playing the role of hapless victim, begging for international support, it’s defending itself, demanding Hamas return hostages and end violence.

Historically, that seems very basic national earthly governance.

Witnessing biden+blinken constantly trying to insert themselves/the U.S., into the middle of it, or, directing it, is unpleasant.
The U.S. has established a pattern of preference for PROTRACTED, IMPOSSIBLE military conflicts/wars.

Iran is involved.
i’m not convinced that requires U.S. interference. Of course, biden is 100% looking for political points.
Politically sticky for him. He wants it both ways. He’s in position to guarantee PROTRACTED conflict.

[JimFoxvog]

There is a rather large class (and they're well funded) of professional agitators. They tend to take up various causes

I've heard that allegation before but have never seen any evidence for it.

They are called "activists." They live on grants from major foundations. Have you not met one?

The activists that I've known have not had any grants. I expect you can find evidence of a few, but they'd be a small minority. Most activists are strongly motivated by personal belief.

I've been to anti-abortion demonstrations that seem to be organized, at least in part, by a local priest. I guess the Roman Catholic Church is a "major foundation" in some sense.