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You and I directly benefit from Israeli genocide because the profits from it are allowed to freely circulate in the Western market. Many public finds including those of universities, pensions, and healthcare, are invested into Israeli firms including weapons firms. Western companies operating in or selling to Israel pay taxes to Western governments where the companies are based, which are then used to subsidise our infrastructure and amenities. Same with Israeli companies operating in or selling to the West.
We are enjoying the spoils of atrocities committed against Palestinians right this second.
Are you doing anything against it? Like actual things that materially help Palestinians not useless lip service and virtual signalling. No? Then your life has a net effect on the side of Zionism no matter how many #palestine social media posts you make. So yes, all Western citizens are culpable because none (or exceedingly few) of us do anything meaningful about it but we all, willingly or otherwise, consume the spoils of genocide. Not wanting to benefit from genocide does not make us any less to blame for doing so.
The fact that neither Israel nor the US is getting the Russia treatment of complete economic and political ostracism by other Western countries shows that the West never believed in actual morals or "rule based order" beyond what's convenient for propaganda.