This isn’t about love for Israel. It’s about the survival of an entire people.
Yes, the US has spent trillions on military operations. That doesn’t negate the obligation we hold ourselves to, to try to maintain at least a semblance of peace. The world is too small to just let it run wild. Eventually, everything happening elsewhere can come home to us.
Yes, I agree. It is about the survival of the American people.
The US is drowning in debt. Spending trillions to defend a foreign country that has no formal alliance with the US is making a bad situation worse.
In your opinion. In my opinion, letting the Muslim terrorist groups … including the government of Iran … prevail would be a far worse situation.
We are funding both Sunni terrorists and Jewish terrorists–fine terrorists on both sides.
After funding Sunni jihadists who became ISIS, we used ISIS as the pretext for occupying Syria and seizing billions of dollars’ worth of Syrian oil. The reality that much of the fighting against ISIS was done by Iranian-backed local militias, and ISIS and other Sunni groups are a much greater terrorist threat than anything connected to Iran.
IS IRAN A MAJOR SPONSOR OF TERRORISM?
https://sonar21.com/is-iran-a-major-sponsor-of-terrorism/
I find your posts to be disingenuous. You claim to have no unfavorable view of either side. But yet, your posts are clearly anti-Israel. That you would find any moral equivalency between terrorist regimes and the State of Israel is mind boggling to me.
We are not in a war with Iran. That’s a stupid statement. We have no troops in Iran, we have no battles going on. We have no plans to destroy the Iranian military. No war strategy whatsoever. Iran has wanted to wipe us out since 1979. They just don’t have the means to do it. And we have decided not to allow it. Anything less would be foolish.
Leftist logic has long been that if they support something, then the government must fund it. If they don’t support it, then the government must ban it. Democrats are rapidly moving from supporting a blank check to Israel giving military aid to Hamas. I don’t support either extreme.
Free speech does not mean that the government must subsidize what you are saying. Likewise the right of a foreign country to exist does not require that the US subsidize it.
If Netanyahu and his cronies want to create “greater Israel” then they can do it on their own nickel. The vast majority of US aid for the region goes to Israel, and wars to subjugate Israel’s perceived enemies have cost many times the direct aid to Israel.
That was Obama’s logic with the NATO bombing campaign against Libya–there is no war so long as the US is bombing from the air without casualties.
If a foreign country bombed facilities in the US without losing any casualties, would it still be a war?
You are seething anti-Israel rhetoric.
Can you point to the “blank check for Israel” provision in the US constitution?
I missed that.
Dripping hatred for Israel. Pretty sad really.
Seems like the relevant thread to post this, and yet I don’t have much to say. I still side mostly with Israel despite all the Genocide Joe talk from the left, but I’m not surprised views have shifted.
I can’t say it enough times. Hamas is to blame.
They hide behind civilians, dressed in civilian clothing. They blend into the population and target IDF soldiers. If someone shows up in an area designated to be empty, what is the IDF expected to do? Why would an innocent civilian intentionally put themselves in harm’s way?
If Hamas were to simply lay down their arms and agree to coexist with Israel, this could be over tomorrow.
The US government is not sending me billions of dollars each year. They aren’t sending in troops to attack anyone that I suspect is plotting against me. Why don’t they support my right to exist?
They aren’t paying me to post on the internet. Why are they censoring me?
US contractors are shooting at Palestinian civilians as well.
And naturally you believe Hamas isn’t interfering in any way.
I have no earthly idea what you are babbling on about.
Israelis don’t have a divine right to special treatment from the US far beyond what any other country receives.
No, it would not be. An act of war on its own does not constitute a war. It takes repeated reciprocal acts of war by both parties for it to be considered a war.
They do. It’s called the Constitution.
