You could almost mistake an IDF – Israel’s occupational genocidal army – tweet for satire or parody: occupation forces playing the anti-establishment song “Fortunate Son” in a post showing their fighter jets flying.
The IDF’s X post says: “On our way to make history.” But if anything, history is repeating itself as the West sends its soldiers out like cannon fodder to die for its elite.
The 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival classic was a protest anthem written specifically to call out the American wealthy and powerful for dodging the Vietnam War draft while working-class kids were shipped off to die.
In “Fortunate Son,” the senator’s son is the original draft dodger in a tailored suit, born with a silver spoon so far down his throat he’s choking on it. Perhaps an apt time to mention Donald Trump. In the original song, the draft dodger waves a flag he’ll never have to bleed for. He’s the one shouting “support our troops” from his daddy’s country club while someone else’s kid—poor, Brown, working-class—catches a bullet in a jungle he can’t even find on a map.
Israel lobby elites are the “fortunate sons” now
The pro-Israel donor jokes write themselves.
Miriam Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate and Republican mega-donor has poured over $100 million into Trump’s campaigns, effectively purchased the U.S. ambassador to Israel and the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem.
In October 2025, Donald Trump stood before the Israeli parliament- the Knesset and delivered a shockingly honest insight into how foreign policy actually gets made.
Gesturing toward Miriam Adelson in the gallery, he bragged about moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, then openly detailed how the billionaire casino magnate and her late husband Sheldon would simply call and request White House meetings.
He said:
Look at Miriam sitting there so innocently. She’s got $60 billion in the bank. And she loves Israel—probably more than America, honestly. I asked her once and she refused to answer, which tells you everything.
Author Keith Woods commented:
Military conscription
Unlike America, Israel already has mandatory conscription, everyone serves, at least in theory. But crack down hard on those who refuse, and you start to wonder who really gets to sit this one out.
Yair Netanyahu is also a perfect “fortunate son” – he sat out the genocide and relaxed in Florida while everyone else’s kids got called up. When the backlash hit, he “volunteered” for ambulance duty.
Meanwhile, Israel beats up the others who refuse. In February 2026, massive protests erupted across Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Haredi communities over military conscription.
The UK, thankfully, doesn’t have conscription—though there’s been umming and ahhing over it lately.
Tobias Ellwood, a Conservative MP under Rishi Sunak’s government, was a proud supporter of bringing back conscription. In April 2024, he told LBC: “I do believe everybody should participate somehow in supporting our nation as a whole.” Labour has put it off the table – for now at least.
With war drums beating higher than ever, feverish BAE Systems shareholders will be rubbing their hands together, counting their profits while counting on other people’s children to do the dying. All the rich will keep their sons at home to count the cash rolling in.
Featured image via the Canary
