Israel has banned Palestinians from publicly celebrating the release of prisoners.
The U.S. gets nothing in return for the extensive economic, military and diplomatic support that it provides the apartheid nation of Israel. The U.S. suffers internationally on account of its close relationship with Israel, because of its constant vetoing of UN Resolutions to punish Israel for its human rights violations.
There is no alliance and Israel is not our ally. Its government does not behave as an ally does, it has never fought alongside U.S. forces in any of our foreign wars, and its interests are not aligned with ours as an ally’s should be. There is no formal treaty and no binding obligations that require our governments to do anything for the other.
Pundits always grossly exaggerate the nature and extent of the ties between our governments. Israel is routinely called our “most important ally” in the region. Or even our “most cherished ally” in all the world. These are ideological assertions that are not grounded in any observable reality. Dozens of other states all over the world are better allies to the United States than the “most cherished ally” is. And they don’t preside over an illegal occupation that implicates the U.S. in decades of abuses and crimes against the Palestinian people living under that occupation, and none of them enjoys the lockstep, uncritical backing that Israel does. The effect of this constant repetition is to make the U.S.-Israel relationship seem extremely important to U.S. interests when it is not, and that serves to promote the “illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists.”
US oligarchs, many of whom are Zionists with Israeli ties, gain from this policy. They are a tiny handful of people and not representative of the overall demographic, which is NOT dominated by zionists or their enablers. Even in the U.S. which is itself a settler-colonialist state.
The other 98% percent of the pay for the costs. In money. In stress and in a cancerous rot of the national soul.
Israel has banned Palestinians from publicly celebrating the release of prisoners.
The U.S. gets nothing in return for the extensive economic, military and diplomatic support that it provides the apartheid nation of Israel. The U.S. suffers internationally on account of its close relationship with Israel, because of its constant vetoing of UN Resolutions to punish Israel for its human rights violations.
There is no alliance and Israel is not our ally. Its government does not behave as an ally does, it has never fought alongside U.S. forces in any of our foreign wars, and its interests are not aligned with ours as an ally’s should be. There is no formal treaty and no binding obligations that require our governments to do anything for the other.
Pundits always grossly exaggerate the nature and extent of the ties between our governments. Israel is routinely called our “most important ally” in the region. Or even our “most cherished ally” in all the world. These are ideological assertions that are not grounded in any observable reality. Dozens of other states all over the world are better allies to the United States than the “most cherished ally” is. And they don’t preside over an illegal occupation that implicates the U.S. in decades of abuses and crimes against the Palestinian people living under that occupation, and none of them enjoys the lockstep, uncritical backing that Israel does. The effect of this constant repetition is to make the U.S.-Israel relationship seem extremely important to U.S. interests when it is not, and that serves to promote the “illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/israel-is-not-americas-ally/
“The U.S.”. Is not a unified country.
US oligarchs, many of whom are Zionists with Israeli ties, gain from this policy. They are a tiny handful of people and not representative of the overall demographic, which is NOT dominated by zionists or their enablers. Even in the U.S. which is itself a settler-colonialist state.
The other 98% percent of the pay for the costs. In money. In stress and in a cancerous rot of the national soul.
Israel is a big consumer of American weapons and armaments. It also develops software that America uses to spy on its citizens, and on others.