01-22-2019, 11:42 PM
(01-22-2019, 05:09 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(01-21-2019, 01:00 PM)David Horn Wrote: Israel has gone through a series of changes that have altered the politics of that nation dramatically in its 70 year history. We Americans stood foursquare with the emerging state, and that goodwill has continued to this day, though its hard to see how that can continue into the future. We had some assumptions about Israel that are melting away. I can't see any potential two-state solution any longer, and the Israelis have already made non-Jewish residents into sub-class citizens -- even those who stuck with them in '48. I agree, that smells like apartheid to me. How that squares with US support in the future is questionable. How it squares with European support is already in decline -- except for Germany, of course. Germans can't afford to look even remotely anti-Semitic.
What made me even more sceptical of Israel is the fact that Trump and Bolsonaro are big supporters of this state.
Yeah, I can say this for Israel. They sure do know how to build pretty effective walls. I think the US should contract out our wall building to Israel in exchange for those weapons we give to them.
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