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Re:US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist by yyyk on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @04:01PM (#29099570)
Basically his position, when you strip out the inflammatory rhetoric, is that the US wants to keep Israel weak and dependent on US aid. i.e. Get Israel to make concessions (say returning the Sinai to Egypt), the US covers up for that with aid, but the aid can always be withdrawn (say if Israel dares make the US upset, or if some radical President is elected), leaving Israel dependent, and at risk in the long term.

I don't think that accurately describes US policy anymore, if it ever did. Modern day US administrations have withdrawn from the world, and that means their ME policies are not determined by reality, but by domestic ideologies and domestic political considerations.

Re:US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist by GhettoComputers on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:23PM (#29109102)
Are you Israeli? I read his rhetoric and I have never seen such ridiculous statements made by anyone. They are so disconnected from reality I never seen this kind of belief in my life.
Re:US puts NSO Group on trade blacklist by yyyk on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:06PM (#29124745)
I've read all kinds of absolutely insane rhetoric on I/P (way beyond this), I don't think much would surprise me anymore. That conflict used to generate way more of this type of rhetoric than anything else, but recently other issues seems to have caught up in this department...