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(However, 3 of 8 US Supreme Court Justices are from NYC, and Alito and Scalia are/were from NJ.)
This is just bad.
Trust me I have @dang all over me when I make poor/emotional comments, but this is just ignorant.
Nobody cares that the Israelis are Jews, we care when they (and any other homo Sapiens) act like assholes.
So this is not a Jewish issue, per se, it's an asshole issue, let's be clear about that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alliances are about geopolitics as much as how much we like countries' behaviour. Israel is an invaluable intelligence partner in the War on Terror and a natural ally against Iran. They're also the closest thing to a liberal democracy in the Middle East. As long as the US continues to gain more from its alliance with Israel than it loses, the alliance will endure. No matter how much individual leaders may loathe each…
'War on Terror' - I like how you have capitalised this, I hope you don't actually believe it though?
what confuses me about the US-Israeli relationship is that the most of the times they work well but at times one is always sabatoging each other in a manner that makes you reconsider, is Israel and enemy or a friend to the United States? I don't think Japan would pull off shit like this. It's like there's a four tier system to what defines a US Ally. Platinum - Gets you exclusive access to black funds & latest weapon…
The word you're looking for is aid. People die of aids.
what confuses me about the US-Israeli relationship is that the most of the times they work well but at times one is always sabatoging each other in a manner that makes you reconsider, is Israel and enemy or a friend to the United States? I don't think Japan would pull off shit like this. It's like there's a four tier system to what defines a US Ally. Platinum - Gets you exclusive access to black funds & latest weapon…
America has interests and not friends. Israelis understand this. Similarly Israel has interests and not friends. They are interested in protecting their own interests. Even if it costs Americans for them to do so. So you can basically say Israelis learned how to play these games from Americans.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
And the crazy thing is the other country doesn't even have to behave well or keep up its end of the bargain to maintain top-level status.
Alliances are about geopolitics as much as how much we like countries' behaviour. Israel is an invaluable intelligence partner in the War on Terror and a natural ally against Iran. They're also the closest thing to a liberal democracy in the Middle East. As long as the US continues to gain more from its alliance with Israel than it loses, the alliance will endure. No matter how much individual leaders may loathe each…
what confuses me about the US-Israeli relationship is that the most of the times they work well but at times one is always sabatoging each other in a manner that makes you reconsider, is Israel and enemy or a friend to the United States? I don't think Japan would pull off shit like this. It's like there's a four tier system to what defines a US Ally. Platinum - Gets you exclusive access to black funds & latest weapon…
America has interests and not friends. Israelis understand this. Similarly Israel has interests and not friends. They are interested in protecting their own interests. Even if it costs Americans for them to do so. So you can basically say Israelis learned how to play these games from Americans.
If only we acted that way. Our levels of support to Israel are disproportionate to the benefits we receive. For better or for worse we would in no way tolerate the Israeli level of diplomatic and political sabotage without such a strong pro-Israeli lobby. If it's a moral imperative, then fine, but I've never heard a convincing description of what we're actually getting from the Israelis to justify the rest of the relationship. Just "having a democracy in the Middle East" is not itself useful, especially when literally everyone in the neighborhood wants to kill them. If it weren't for the pro-Israeli lobby they'd be getting the Ukraine treatment, strong words of support, but otherwise they'd be on their own.
[in response to the anti Jew comments below]: This is just bad. Trust me I have @dang all over me when I make poor/emotional comments, but this is just ignorant. Nobody cares that the Israelis are Jews, we care when they (and any other homo Sapiens) act like assholes. So this is not a Jewish issue, per se, it's an asshole issue, let's be clear about that.
[in response to the anti Jew comments below]: This is just bad. Trust me I have @dang all over me when I make poor/emotional comments, but this is just ignorant. Nobody cares that the Israelis are Jews, we care when they (and any other homo Sapiens) act like assholes. So this is not a Jewish issue, per se, it's an asshole issue, let's be clear about that.
What anti-Jew comments? There aren't any.
You need to likely turn on "see dead links" in your profile to see them.
[in response to the anti Jew comments below]: This is just bad. Trust me I have @dang all over me when I make poor/emotional comments, but this is just ignorant. Nobody cares that the Israelis are Jews, we care when they (and any other homo Sapiens) act like assholes. So this is not a Jewish issue, per se, it's an asshole issue, let's be clear about that.
What anti-Jew comments? There aren't any.