This may be a blessing in disguise. The decades long Israeli strategy of relying on the United States has clearly come to an end at an almost unimaginable point not because Americans have turned against Israel but because Democrats have. Whatever happens in November at some point Democrats will again control the government and relations will likely be even worse as the Democrats by and large see Israel as a moral stain and support the murder cult that is the Palestinian National Movement. The American people will stand with the free nation of Israel but they will not vote based on this.
Israel must be prepared to not only defend against the murderous death cult on its border but also against Iran and it's other proxies without American aid or support. This means enlarging it's own weapons industries. It means building transactional relationships with other powers even those that might be at odds with the US. Netanyahu placed a bad bet back in 09. He believed Obama was all bluster and he could out talk him or out last him. Obama wasn't all bluster. He has transformed the Democratic party and remade it in his own Islamist favoring/Israel loathing image. And that is the reality of it. As for now yes you are right. This is the opportunity to tell Biden and his fools to stuff it. No more meetings. No more phone calls. No more scoldings. And NO MORE DELAYS. It pains me that it's come to this. But I take solace that the American people stand with Israel not Biden and Hamas and Iran.
Clearly, Israel must become even more self-sufficient when it comes to the production of military ordnance. It will likely mean an increase in military spending as a percentage of their GDP. Hopefully, Israel will have the political unity to do this regardless of who is prime minister and regardless of who is elected president here. More than ever, the sooner they get on with the Rafah operation, the better.
People forget South Vietnam wasn't defeated in battle per se. They lost after they ran out of ammunition when the "Watergate Congress" abrogated our treaty obligations under the Treaty of Paris. Israel would've lost the Yom Kippur War without resupply. If you're not actively pushing ordnance to Israel, you might as well be chanting the river-sea thing.
Not the same. North Vietnam was itself stronger than South Vietnam which was held up for a decade solely by American forces on the ground. Israel is more than strong enough to defeat Hamas in short order. Israel if it has to has the ordinance to decimate Lebanon as well. It's not ideal but it's more than doable.
This reduces my ambivalence about voting for Trump. What else could it do?
This may be a blessing in disguise. The decades long Israeli strategy of relying on the United States has clearly come to an end at an almost unimaginable point not because Americans have turned against Israel but because Democrats have. Whatever happens in November at some point Democrats will again control the government and relations will likely be even worse as the Democrats by and large see Israel as a moral stain and support the murder cult that is the Palestinian National Movement. The American people will stand with the free nation of Israel but they will not vote based on this.
Israel must be prepared to not only defend against the murderous death cult on its border but also against Iran and it's other proxies without American aid or support. This means enlarging it's own weapons industries. It means building transactional relationships with other powers even those that might be at odds with the US. Netanyahu placed a bad bet back in 09. He believed Obama was all bluster and he could out talk him or out last him. Obama wasn't all bluster. He has transformed the Democratic party and remade it in his own Islamist favoring/Israel loathing image. And that is the reality of it. As for now yes you are right. This is the opportunity to tell Biden and his fools to stuff it. No more meetings. No more phone calls. No more scoldings. And NO MORE DELAYS. It pains me that it's come to this. But I take solace that the American people stand with Israel not Biden and Hamas and Iran.
Clearly, Israel must become even more self-sufficient when it comes to the production of military ordnance. It will likely mean an increase in military spending as a percentage of their GDP. Hopefully, Israel will have the political unity to do this regardless of who is prime minister and regardless of who is elected president here. More than ever, the sooner they get on with the Rafah operation, the better.
People forget South Vietnam wasn't defeated in battle per se. They lost after they ran out of ammunition when the "Watergate Congress" abrogated our treaty obligations under the Treaty of Paris. Israel would've lost the Yom Kippur War without resupply. If you're not actively pushing ordnance to Israel, you might as well be chanting the river-sea thing.
Not the same. North Vietnam was itself stronger than South Vietnam which was held up for a decade solely by American forces on the ground. Israel is more than strong enough to defeat Hamas in short order. Israel if it has to has the ordinance to decimate Lebanon as well. It's not ideal but it's more than doable.