r/PCM on reddit are all israelis. You can't convince me they are not
Every single war they support the "underdog" and are against the perceived "aggressive invader"
Ukraine vs Russia? they support Ukraine and of course they think "Russia bad"
CCP China? They dislike China because "aggressive dictatorship"
Axis powers vs Allies? They can't shut up about "muh nazi war crimes and muh Imperal Japan war crimes"
But when it comes to israel? Full troated support, every other day they are making posts in support of israel and bitching about Palestinians.
Apparently no one is allowed to be war mongerers except for israel.
You could argue that dragging Russia into a war weakened Syria enough so that Assad could be removed. Iran is also quite close with China so weakening China weakens Iran. Is that the plan behind it tho? Who knows. All I know for sure is that the European world is deliberately being destroyed.
If the US would have an 'Empire first' strategy they would have never supported Israel as the support of Israel basically pushed the entire Middle East into the arms of the Soviets and it was quite expensive for the US to get at least some Arab countries back into their sphere of influence. Like Egypt.
The China-Russia things are a bit far-fetched to be about Israel. Seems like small potatoes to me to have effects on such huge matters.
And maybe it's the lobby that drives support for Israel. But if I wanted to play devil's advocate, I'd say that they wanted to bet on the strong horse in the Middle East, even if it alienated Arabs. Ultimately, Egypt had to come crawling back to the US from the USSR because only the US could force Israel to give up the Sinai.
Empire is also pretty arrogant. I'd say that it's pretty stupid to drive Russia into the arms of the Chinese. But they think they can wage war on Russia and China simultaneously.
Israel was only the 'strong horse' as long as the Arab nations had extremely poorly equipped and trained 'armies'. Which is why the claim that Israel faced annihilation in 1948 is utter horseshit because the Arabs never stood a chance.
Since then though Israels survival is dependent on the unconditional US support. They're not a strong horse. They're a paper tiger. Although they do excel at subversion and terrorism which is quite ironic considering the stereotypes that exist about Jews.
Just ask the question what has Israel ever done for the US? You only ever get the answer 'They're the only democracy in the Middle East!' but you'll never get an answer that could justify the untold billions of dollars that have been gifted to Israel or all the actively hostile acts that they've committed against the US.
Actually during the Yom-Kippur war the US had to save Israels ass. Just look at how much military equipment was flown into Israel from the US during that war.
The Camp David accords were negotiated for the benefit of Israel. Egypt is being paid off by the US to this day for Israel.
Maybe they would have if they had sent in more than small expeditionary forces. The thing is, they didn't tone down their rhetoric about driving the Jew into the sea, so the attacks certainly were alarming.
That's more the case since 1967. And even that is not 'unconditional'. There are many cases where American presidents have forced Israel to back down. Things have gotten particularly bad since Trump I, because there is not even the intention of getting Israel to be slightly reasonable.
That's just not a serious argument. "Democracy" does not matter to the US. I would say that it's a stationary aircraft carrier, which may not be good for the US, but it is great for the deep state and its desire to project power into every corner of the world. I'm not saying that this is the reason for US support.
I think this is true in part, but Israel ended up dominating despite suffering humiliatng setbacks in the beginning.
What I mentioned was that Egypt was fairly close to the Soviet Union. Then it realized that the USSR couldn't do anything for it, except give bad intelligence that helped spark the 1967 war. So they did what the Americans wanted - Sadat expelled Soviet advisers and turned towards the Americans. The fact that your tax dollars are going to Egypt, which is pocket change to the deep state and which keeps it dependent on the US financially and militarily, is a net gain for the deep state. The Suez canal runs through Egypt, after all, and it's the most important Arab state.
No, they really weren't. The Palestinians didn't have any army. The only Arab nation with a trained army was Jordan and Jordan only occupied the West Bank because they made a deal with Israel. Besides Israel started ethnically cleansing Palestine long before the Arab nations went to war.
Yes and before it was the support by France and England.
The only President who actually tried to force Israel to do anything was JFK and he was assassinated. No other Presidents actually ever strong armed Israel from a position of power. The only time Israel backed down is when it was actually impossible for them not to.
Because Israel got resupplied by the US.
The 1967 war was sparked by Israel wanting to conquer the Sinai. It was an entirely unprovoked sneak attack and the Israeli politicians from that time have openly admitted to the fact that Egypt at no point was intending to invade Israel.
And who actually is the deep state? If the deep state wasn't tied to Israel the deep state would've told Israel to go fuck themselves as the US support for Israel has only achieved that the entire Arab world hates the US with a passion and the region is permanently destabilized. Both of which isn't beneficial for the US.
And the stationary aircraft carrier argument is bogus as the US doesn't even have a military base in Israel. The only American soldiers deployed to Israel are those who operate the air defense systems that protect Israel and not the US.