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Israel Seems To Have Struck Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
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I don't even know if I fully understand the difficulty of cutting ties with Israel, and the more they push the limits the less I think I understand what's so goddamn important about them as an ally
They're at a key strategic position that allows the US to project power into several important targets. Doesn't help that they have nukes so the US can't risk leaving them to fend for themselves without committing omnicide.
I guess maybe I've been spoiled by my media choices, I've come to expect my antagonists to be three-dimensional and not straight-up sociopathic.
You hear about the crying drones thing? That was the reality breaker for me. I don't believe in any kind of elemental evil, but I do now see that sufficient depravity can reach more or less the same depths.
I hadn't heard of this. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/reports-israeli-drones-luring-people-093920198.html
Every time I think Israel couldn't get any worse, there's always more.
If I was a lich king who had to charge the demon portal with pure evil for my abyssal army to come invade the earth, I MIGHT think about doing the baby crying drone thing.
Yeah: Iran, Iraq, and Syria. They just decided to project that force at 3 countries simultaneously. And if it doesn't work out for them, that's going to be the end of their usefulness.
Not just those, though. The west took a huge L in the Suez crisis, but Israel is a way to still have some control over Egypt (which is more or less a puppet state atm). Israel also sits at an important position for projecting power to Afghanistan (lol) and, to a lesser extent, East Asia. South Korea and Japan are much more relevant for East Asia, but Israel still functions as a hub connecting the east and west.
Israel is the United States' unsinkable aircraft carrier in the Middle East. As current US president Joe Biden said, if Israel did not exist, the US would create one to promote it's interests in the region. That is why the United States considers them important as an ally.
This is a good point. US and Israel deliberately formed a joint suicide pact because it is in both of their interests. For Israel, it ensure the global superpower is always willing to cover for them and defend them. For the USA, it creates a colony that cannot revolt against them and a foothold in the region to exert power from. It's not a coincidence that the Zionist project chose Palestine, located on the Mediterranean Sea right next to the Suez Canal as its location. Israel made this clear during the so-called "Suez Crisis" where they invaded Egypt the moment western imperialist powers lost control of the canal and seized the canal. It is only the pressure of the USSR, and the quick thinking of Nasser to scuttle the canal that prevented this power grab and resulted in a ceasefire. The western imperialists eventually got their way anyway, with Egypt being retaken by their own cronies.
Israel is also located in a perfect position to splinter the middle east and control oil production, and the planned Greater Israel takes chunks out of every surrounding nation (Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and even Iraq). It is in a perfect geopolitical location to control the suez canal & a large part of the world's oil reserves. This is why they didn't decide to do their project in West Germany or the US, but in Palestine.
This is the eventual goal of the Zionists, Eretz Yisrael, from the Nile to the Euphrates (and beyond). You can start to see why their location is very strategic, even moreso than Turkey which is often described as in a very good geopolitical strategic location.
Liberal Zionists will call this "anti-semitic conspiracy theories" but it's not, hardline zionists are quite open with their intentions and openly broadcast them. They plan to dominate the arabs, push north until they eventually connect up with Kurds and Turks. They plan to cross the river Jordan. They plan to re-take Suez Canal.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41144505
Here's a Russian-Zionist hardliner crank's blog where they just give the whole speal right out in the open in 2003, peep how active the comments were this isn't just some tiny fringe.
https://avrom.livejournal.com/116574.html
And it's not just cranks who are like this, this is the mainstream position of Likud and Ben-Givr and the Israeli right.
I dug more into this blog, and it's the rabbi Avraham Shmulevich who lives in Hebron, Israel (a settlement) and has a youtube channel in Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Syl-Ouyy7gw
All the rhetoric I've seen from the Israeli establishment is full of religious allusions, like some crusader battle speech. So many in the West talk about Israel like they are making rational choices but it really is based on this sort of shit.
Yes there were many reasons that the Middle East was chosen as the primary outpost for the current imperial system and the "first strike" by the US in the 21st century. The same article by Amin states that:
https://monthlyreview.org/2007/12/01/political-islam-in-the-service-of-imperialism/
The article is from 2007, so a lot has changed since then. But it is still relevant.