mos6507 wrote:The US is not as anti-Palestinian as it's often portrayed.
They bankroll the settlers with weapons and "humanitarian" aid but they'll throw you in Gulag Guantanamo if you donate to a Palestinian orphanage.
mos6507 wrote:we won't sit by and watch any other ally get wiped out
Except he Shah and your former allies in China & Vietnam. How log till ally Karzai's under the bus?
That is a tired old imperialist propaganda ploy, I think the Brits also used it.
Conquer, occupy, (ethnically cleanse, colonize) install quisling regime and declare it to be an ally worthy of support, citing some high moral reasons - formerly Christianity or Western Values, currently Human Rights and Democracy.
mos6507 wrote:If you want to press for universal isolationism, that's a valid debate, but to pick winners and losers to me really speaks to latent antisemitism.
The point is, Israel is special and any discussion is taboo. Unlike all others.