“There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” one of the sources told Politico under the condition of anonymity.
Emotional support Israel
They can cower behind the antisemitism shield where we can’t.
It really has been used as anti-Israel actions is anti-Semitism, which is a load of horseshit. If the U.S. bombs Iran and people criticize it, it’s Anti-U.S. sentiment, not Anti-christian sentiment, unless all Christians suddenly say bombing Iran is what God wants.
If I were a practicing Jew I’d be furious if people kept conflating my faith with the state of Israel.
I don’t think people care about anti semitism so much anymore. Or any of the other isms for that matter.
I quote John Lennon, “I don’t believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.” Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I’d still have to bum rides off people.”
“The question isn’t ‘what are we going to do,’ the question is ‘what aren’t we going to do?’”
They absolutely do
Yeah but it’s going away. There’s an entire generation of people who grew up seeing terms like racism and sexism and anti-semitism being used to deflect against legitimate arguments.
Like you can’t get 12 people to sit in a jury when the cops have beat up on the whole town, right?
Except we are clearly setting up our emotional support Israel to take all of the blame when this goes south, which it will…and Israel will deserve blame for it, they are foaming at the mouth for regional war but the US will spin around and say “we’ve been deceived by the jews again!” to get out of admitting to itself how fucked up the US is all by itself.
Cue history repeating itself in the same violent, xenophobic, stupid ways…
Clearly Israel is the only one who wants this war, the US is just following orders.
This is why US shouldn’t allow its politicians to be up for sale, but alas, hard to fix stupid.
There is no clearly delineating the idea of US and Israel in this foreign policy context, it is a continuous enmeshed concept, Israel is a vassal state of the US, I don’t say that condescendingly, that is what it is.