• mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    You should be old enough to know that Netanyahu was a hardliner and opposed the Oslo accords although those accords was beneficials to Israel. It allowed them to colonize more swiftly and discretely Palestinian land. Netanyahu wanted to keep the fast way of colonization but American forced him to accept.

    There is many other time where Israel listened to the USA because there was real threat if withdrawing some kind of support .

    Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip. when President Eisenhower threatened to cut off all U.S. aid and support, and considered imposing UN sanctions.

    In 1991 Israel refrained from direct military retaliation to Saddam launching missiles to keep the to avoid undermining the U.S.-led Arab coalition against Saddam Intact.

    The middle east was the most important region for empires for centuries . The USA control of the straight and trade routes would be an amazing leverage against Russia and China. That’s why the USA also backed Saudi Arabia proxies in Yemen to control beb el mendeb . The war on Iran was definitely serving both Israel and the USA imperialist interests not national interests . The failure to win a war do not mean the bad intentions was not there.

    If Israel control the USA then there would be no negotiations with Iran. The full scale war will continue. If trump was blackmailed he would easily give the west bank officially to Israel like he did with the Golan heights .

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      You’re so close

      I lived through all of that

      I laughed when the US went into Iraq when Kuwait slant drilled into their fields and were surprised to be shot at with US weapons

      And again when Dubya did what his handlers told him to do

      It’s not that Israel controls the US.

      They’ve been a useful tool for the West, including the UK for decades, but the power balance changed

      The Mossad did dirty work for the West, not just 'Murica

      But, Israel might be cruel and vicious, but they were clever, and they did what they did to ensure that they would always enjoy the support of the governments they did the things for that they could not do themselves

      That has now shifted, and sharply

      Between Kushner, Epstein and others, it’s not about leveraging 'Murica, it’s about leveraging Trump

      And the whole world will have to deal with it, unfortunately