I'm simply pointing out where the moderator, who believes Israel could exist without US or another major power's support, is in disagreement with any serious international policy expert within or outside of Israel. Calling Israel a 51st US state isn't a big deal in Israel, they know.
Kamala Harris will campaign in the Lone Star State, not because she expects to win Texas, but because she wants to shine a light on Texas’ abortion ban.
"Why would Muslims support Lyin' Kamala Harris when she embraces Muslim hating Liz Cheney, a total loser, whose father brought years of war, and death, to the Middle East???" - Donald Trump
I'll assume your interests are fully aligned with the aggrieved minority, but consider their POV for a brief moment. Trump's talking about an end to the conflict, he's at the very least honest about what Netanyahu wants, and he's dunking on the islamophobic, mass-murdering Cheneys.
Arab Americans are well aware of Trump's racism, which is why they put their trust in liberals and went for Biden by a landslide. This is a pretty clear "fuck you" to those very same liberals for carrying out a genocide.
A mother from #Jabalia says:
“They took all the children from their mothers and put them inside what resembled a pit or a hole. The tank came to circle around them repeatedly until their bones cracked under the pressure of dust and sand, amidst the screams of children and the wailing of mothers.
“After that, the soldiers came and started throwing the children towards the mothers, and whoever caught a child was ordered to carry him and move away quickly, with no guarantee that the child would be their own.
“Many mothers carried children who were not their own, and were forced to leave with them, leaving their own children in the hands of other mothers. This marked the beginning of a new chapter of suffering, with mothers searching for their children in the arms of other women, trying to calm the children they held until they found their real mothers.“
man you're obstinant. Israel selling weapons tech doesn't mean they can produce the physical bombs, missiles, tanks they need to continue the war let alone defend from a coordinated counterattack.
Benjamin Miller says it best,
"Israel cannot work alone. It needs financial aid as well as backing in the international arena from some major power. China and Russia are certainly not partners and Europe is very critical of Israel these days, and sensitive in the humanitarian field. Australia and Canada are also not a real option, because their tendency towards us is similar to that of Europe.
What does the US provide Israel in terms of foreign aid as well as in the diplomatic arena, which we would have a very difficult time doing without? Firstly, there is the defense aid, which in normal times amounts to $3.8 billion annually, about NIS 14 billion (Israel's defense budget, without US aid, is NIS 65 billion annually in normal times.) Also on the agenda today is aid totaling $14 billion to support the war, which has not yet been approved by Congress.
Apart from the two aircraft carriers that the US sent here at the start of the war, to deter Iran and Hezbollah, it has also been frequently supplying Israel with artillery and tank shells and as well as bombs for aircraft. "If the US stops aid in the field of armaments," says Miller, "That's a huge problem for Israel, because it also needs to stockpile weapons in preparation for a possible war against Hezbollah. In such a case, we will need a huge amount of weapons."
No less important than the aid that the US gives to Israel, Miller stresses, is in the use it makes for our benefit of the veto it has in the UN Security Council. Thanks to the US, several resolutions regarding a ceasefire in Gaza were thwarted in the last few months alone. "Since October 7, the US has used the veto three times in our favor," says Miller.
Prior to October 7, it looked like Israel has additional partners in the international arena in China and Russia. Only last June Netanyahu was proud about being invited to visit China by President Xi Jinping.
"That was also another conception that Netanyahu had before October 7 that has been shattered. The conception was that Israel could maneuver between the three great powers - the US, China and Russia - and supposedly benefit from all worlds.
What are you talking about? You can't turn money into tanks, someone with vast natural resources and industry has to sell them to you and that requires a relationship. The main purchaser of Israeli's tech is the US, which is done to help prop up our colony's eocnomy.
Please cite an academic or foreign policy expert that says israel survives alone.
The econ professor is suggesting cutting off aid to encourage settlers to back off, and giving the money to Palestinian refugees. It's a bit tongue in cheek.
You're not going to find a serious person who thinks Israel can survive without a world power behind it.
A dozen members of Congress led by Sen. Bernie Sanders sent a Tuesday letter demanding the Biden administration open an independent investigation into an Israeli attack on journalists, including U.S. citizen Dylan Collins, in Lebanon last year. ...
It's a vassal state, not an ally. An ally means there's a bi-directional relationship. Israel is a colony created under Truman, and the relationship is unidirectional. They cannot exist without direct US support, and their economy isn't going to run without foreign investment.
Ahmed Ghanim, a Democrat, says he accepted an invitation to the event and was seated in the Royal Oak Music Theatre when a campaign organizer ordered him to leave. ...
With the amount of documented effort feds and oligarchs put into astroturfing reddit, Facebook, x, et. al. It's hard to believe they're not doing it on Lemmy
"Most every campaign cycle, it seems, presidential candidates and political pundits claim this election is the most important one ever. It’s become something of a cliché in American politics. This time, however, they just might be correct." - from 2012
And it's always "but but the supreme court!" every 4 years. Like we need uphold this far-right de-facto legislative branch of government, and not threaten to kill it like FDR.
nice attempt to attach a storyline to being a prisoner-of-the-moment.
2012 which you rank 4th highest, where one candidate had formerly supported & implemented a version of the "national healthcare plan" and the other implemented it with conservative support. It was already law, and it wasn't going away.
Comapre anything on your list to '36 where capitalism itself was at stake, or '80 and the solidification of neoliberalism.
Israelis eulogize one of their fallen
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f9d3cea7-e5b2-4563-9cb7-0bbcb098ce9a.jpeg
Saying "Israel is like the 51st US state" is a bannable offense for "misinformation" on Lemmy.world
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"Most every campaign cycle, it seems, presidential candidates and political pundits claim this election is the most important one ever. It’s become something of a cliché in American politics. This time, however, they just might be correct." - from 2012
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