• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    How can a US president betray “Israelis”. He’s not their president, and America is not their mommies. We owe them exactly nothing. They should get off our tit, and we’d like all the nuclear materials they stole from us returned immediately.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.net
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      How can a US president betray “Israelis”. He’s not their president,

      sure but not to defend the shit stain, he represents the nation, so if another nation states an “ally”, say Canada…or Denmark or Ukraine or…

      an allegory, you’re married, doesnt mean you can’t betray a friend, perhaps not as deeply as your partner but still.

      Im an Australian, our previous governemnt betrayed the French for example

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Without the large amount of material and monetary support America provides to keep Israel’s military the strongest in the region, they would get steamrolled by their neighbors. Probably not immediately, but it would be inevitable. Note that I’m not saying anything about whether this is right or wrong from any ethical point of view in any direction, simply that it absolutely would happen. For whatever reason it has consistently been the policy of the American government not to let this happen.

      Israel’s very existence as a modern state has been, shall we say, deeply unpopular with its Arab neighbors literally since day one.

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        4 days ago

        the reason is that its free surveillance on the rest of the region. USA wants to keep an eye on countries they seem hostile and their interests (oil).

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          4 days ago

          They also give our surveillance state their surveillance tech and cyberweapons they developed using Palestinians as guinea pigs. They host our police departments and teach them how to treat our citizenry like Palestinians as well.