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Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas
Ray Goldfield
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« on: July 14, 2014, 09:07:53 PM »

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Because seriously, what would you do with the Israelis if Israel was to cease to exist, short of, well, killing them?
That is exactly what most anti-Zionists want.

I don't think most hard-edged anti-zionists have any ambition to kill the Jews themselves.

I do think most of them would work to get their country to deny emigration to the Jews of Israel and watch as nature took its course in the new, likely Hamas-run Palestine.
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Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas
Ray Goldfield
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 7,983


« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2014, 09:11:00 PM »

Us and Israel have too much to defend in these times to drop one another. They're our strongest ally and as far as I'm concerned they're really the only other country that matters in this world.

Name one thing that Israel has done for the United States.

I... agree with Snowstalker. What does Israel do for us to merit the support they receive? Obviously they deserve their country, I guess, but that's their problem.

I also sort of agree with Adam Griffin in that I almost feel that the two sides should be left to run rampant. Let the Israelis take over the West Bank and evict the Palestinians, or let the Arabs conquer Israel and let all the Israelis come to the United States.

The latter is probable enough that it should compel some anti-Zionists to reconsider their position. Not only that, but barring an establishment of a Jewish state it's likely that would have happened, as well.

Because seriously, what would you do with the Israelis if Israel was to cease to exist, short of, well, killing them?

While I've come to think that American financial aid to Israel is more trouble than it's worth, especially with the coming oil boom of Tamar and Leviathan (and don't think this is unrelated to the increased efforts to destroy Israel - lot of people want those oil fields), there's another factor.

Israel has the best tech sector in the world. The US' staunch support for Israel puts them in the position of being able to get first grab at new technologies, many with military application. They can also negotiate exclusives that keep that tech out of the hands of rivals.

A full financial and diplomatic cut-off for Israel would give Israel no choice but to open that tech to the highest bidder. So a friendly relationship between the two is definitely to the US' benefit. Nor is there any legitimate reason for the US to cut off diplomatic support for Israel.
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Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas
Ray Goldfield
Junior Chimp
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Posts: 7,983


« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2014, 08:24:14 PM »

I think it's fairly clear at this point that backing the Zionists in '48 was a catastrophically stupid thing to do, given the mess that decision has made of our foreign policy interests and of the entire Middle East. Unfortunately we can't change the past, but we can prevent ourselves from continuing to make the same mistakes. I think it's high time we did. The United States should end it's relationship with Israel and go on the offensive against the Israeli state as it would any other regime in the region that violates human dignity and tramples human rights under foot. We need nothing short of a comprehensive divestment and sanctions program directed at the Israelis, as we had aimed against the original apartheid state in the 1980s.

What say you? Do you think the United States should maintain it's relationship with Israel, or alter it in some way? Do you think we should support Palestinian liberation?

If you're going to frame this with that vitriolic nonsense, that frankly sounds like it was written by a Hezbollah splinter group, what's the point?  You hate Israel, but we can't really have a discussion unless we share some foundation of reality about the situation in the West Bank.

there is no fcking 'situation in the West Bank'.  it's a slaughterhouse with the two-legged dogs (the Jews' term, not mine) making their pathetic and doomed attempt at resistance.

hopefully I'll live 50 more years and I'll see the Muslim world rally and plow the State of Israel into the Mediterranean.

Israel has up to 300 nukes. Good luck with that.
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