They really don't serve us that well for be our so-called "Greatest Ally."
You can't just hide behind "that's antisemitism" in all cases of analysis of Israel's influence in geopolitics and specifically in U.S politics ..it's not being intellectually honest
It just reeks of appeasement.
Is this a euphemism for saying "Many of these people have relatives killed by America or one of its puppet governments"?
The language Islamic radicals use to refer to the Westerns is often “crusaders”. It’s a conflict rooted in religion, not practicalities or modern time hostilities.
But I suggest you read the article, it’d be better for explaining the reality than a thousand argumentative HN posts.
If anything US is allies with some worst ones in terms of supporting radical extremism.
But don't let facts get in the way of your propaganda.
In the thats in the past. However they didn't break the peace agreement with Israel.
> Hamas controls Gaza
Gaza is not a country.
> Hezbullah controls a big chunk of southern Lebanon.
True on that but without Israel there Hezbollah would have little reason to oppose the US.
At the same time the reality is that Syria is militarly over, Jordan has made peace, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are basically allies, Turkey has no interest in attacking Israel, Egypt is incapable of true forign policy at the moment.
So we have basically all major powers, and Hezbullah.
Iran has physical presence in Syria (Besides the Hezbullah proxy in Syria).
Gaza is an autonomous neighbor ruled by an Islamic terror organization being a country or not does not change the fact that missles are being launched at Israeli civilians every week.
There is still ISIS in Sinai. (And although the Islamic brotherhood lost control of the country, they are not gone)
yes. Jordan is quiet.
"True on that but without Israel there Hezbollah would have little reason to oppose the US." -You really have no idea how religious extremist work. Hezbullah has something against all non-(their kind of)-muslim
"the reality is that Syria is militarly over" -not really. ISIS is pretty much gone there but there is still a lot of fighting and it's not like the winners are the nice guys
The US (and the rest of the Western economies) gains two very important things: first of all, an allied democracy with real military power that is sitting right next to Arabic dictatorship states where the US are, at best, viewed as the ultimate Satan - thus ensuring the US gets and keeps (!) access to cheap oil. The second thing is that all the military hardware Israel buys or gets "donated" as military aid by the US secures American, French and German jobs in the defense industry.
> If you try to end it, you'll be called antisemites, Holocaust deniers, etc. until you submit.
If you're really claiming Israel is the boss / "secret ruler", you don't need to complain about being called an antisemite. The trope of Israel / "shadow Jews" ruling the world is one of the oldest antisemitic conspiracy theories in history.