IsraelFirst

Netanyahu campaigns on being the Israeli who knows how to win over America best. Now he’s saying Israel should prepare for a time when America will become Israel’s enemy, not friend. As an American, I think repulsing Israel is akin to shooting ourselves in the foot for the following reasons: 1- We don’t dominate the global order and economy like we used to in the 1980s and 90s. Four years of making a pariah out of Russia have proven to be ineffective. 2- Israel is like Messi (the soccer star) of high tech and defense tech. The anti-Western blocs (BRICS, Shanghai, etc) would love to see Israel join them. With Russia, these blocs blunted Western punishment. India is already Israel’s closest ally, and Muslim Palestine is not a hill India would like to die on. China and Russia too will seek interests with Israel over whatever Arab injustices. The two countries vetoed a dozen resolutions thus allowing Assad to kill half a million Syrians. Obama’s “high moral ground” is not their thing. 3- If America ditches Israel, that’ll free the Jewish state of inhibitions and will open the way — if it chooses — to deport every Arab between the river and the sea. America will have no punishment to wave (suspend aid or cooperation) or favors to call. 4- If Israel becomes enemy, America will be left with barely three reliable partners in the Middle East — likely Jordan, Bahrain and the UAE. For example, an “ally” like Turkey has not allowed the U.S. to use its Incerlik airbase for military operations since forever. An ally like Qatar has its soft power bashing America day and night. Israel has been the country where you never hear a single bad word against America, only total friendship. I hope matters don’t get to this, but the majority who want America to turn Israel into an enemy themselves hate America (Tlaib and the Islamismts). On the Right, the antisemites are usually isolationists whose views will cause America further global damage anyway, regardless of Israel. Wonder what Reagan or Clinton would have done…