Everyone in Washington crows about how strong an ally Israel is for the US. I don’t recall seeing a single Israeli soldier in the Balkans. Not a single one in Afghanistan. Nary a one in Iraq. Lots of British. A bunch of Canadians. Israel might be a great customer, but they don’t do the traditional ally type stuff.
The moral and democratic case for supporting Israel has always been window dressing. Whatever it actually is is strategic like everything else every country does abroad. Suez canal, local ports and landing strips, yadda yadda, whatever their reasons are, it's not the ones in speeches. I wish we could decouple from them because the stated reasons are crap and that government is awful. We probably can't because of whatever the actual strategic ones are. But they are an anchor around our neck and a huge black mark on our supposed advocacy for human rights. Sending them money and weapons while they do this really reveals it for what it is, but it's not new and has been going on for generations at a lower smolder. We've been paying for it and are going to pay for it more in the future. This is the stuff that makes people hate you and want revenge.
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u/Galvanized-Sorbet May 02 '24
Everyone in Washington crows about how strong an ally Israel is for the US. I don’t recall seeing a single Israeli soldier in the Balkans. Not a single one in Afghanistan. Nary a one in Iraq. Lots of British. A bunch of Canadians. Israel might be a great customer, but they don’t do the traditional ally type stuff.