The authoritarian ethno-state — A love affair between the US and Israel.

in #netanyahu5 years ago



You know, in the whole month of this anti-Ilhan nonsense, I've seen think-piece after think-piece and politician after politician argue that it's unconscionable to challenge the relationship between the US and Israeli governments, but hardly anybody bothers to explain why.

Why does Netanyahu deserve $3.8 billion American tax dollars a year? More welfare than any other authoritarian thug on earth receives from us, by far. Virtually all of which is then laundered back into the pockets of US arms dealers.

Why does the illegal Israeli nuclear program deserve our constant whitewashing, up to and including a decades-long refusal of US officials to even acknowledge it exists when directly asked, and even while the US lies through its teeth to Iran about wanting a "nuclear-free Middle East?"



Why does the Israeli government deserve the US vetoing every single UN resolution that seeks to hold Netanyahu even the slightest bit accountable for his crimes?

Why does the welfare continue to flow even after Edward Snowden revealed that Israel is the third most active anti-US espionage government behind Russia and China?

Why does the Israeli government receive unfiltered, un-redacted bulk data on US citizens from the NSA?

Why is Netanyahu invited to come to Congress and spread warmongering lies about Iran's nuclear ambitions, which Netanyahu has been saying will result in nuclear weapons within five years for the last 25 years?

What does the United States gain from this relationship except the international scorn that invariably follows covering up and subsidising the crimes of one of the most incessantly belligerent regimes on earth, a massive boondoggle for US defence contractors at our expense, and Mike Pence's belief that all this murder and mayhem will allow him to sneak into heaven?

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