Welcome to this thread, Bob. You seem like a reasonable fellow. This thread isn't about which side is more violent. They're both fucked.
This thread is about how one side coerces and manipulates the US into spending their blood and treasure in its service.
Israel does favours for the US in the area, but you prefer calling it coercion.
And no US blood has been spilt in this conflict, just Israeli. Oops I'm wrong. How many US hostages did Hamas kill, as well as the ones they killed on Oct.7? But AFAIK, no US soldiers have been killed by being in this war. Try to at least be accurate Lefty. You ain't no Sandy Koufax, arguably the best southpaw ever. Did you name yourself after him? Did you know that he refused to pitch in the World Series, even though it was his turn because it was Yom Kippur?
I'm curious about what you think of that. Why should US taxpayers be forced to bailout a foreign country?
They are not forced by anybody. The US always looks out for number 1 and by helping Israel they are helping themselves. It is the choice of the US government how to spend the money of the people whose own choice was to elect those very same officials. There is
NO WAY AT ALL that tiny Israel can force the US to do anything that they don't want to do. The US holds all the cards. Israel is nothing more than another one of those cards.
If individual Americans want to donate all their wealth to Israel, fine. Why should the US government provide unlimited welfare to Israel? Wouldn't that money be better spent on their own citizens?
The US is spending money which they believe is for their own welfare which also means for the welfare of their own citizens.
It's always the same simple answer that a certain type of person doesn't like to accept. Allies being allies answers every single question about US-Israeli politics and why the US does what it does. The US needs Israel
almost as much as Israel needs the US. Not quite, but it's enough that it behooves the US to watch out for their ally.
It's not a conspiracy theory/anti-Semitic trope like the Jews controlling everything with their money. Banks, Hollywood, and now the US gov't. The Jews bought everything. Not sure which is the older trope, the money or the long hooked noses. It is REALITY. Israel has been masterful over the decades to make themselves the US greatest ally outside of NATO. They've had no choice. They know that they're toast without the US and have been since 1948. Masterful positioning by Israel that no amount of money could ever match.
The anti-Semites should not only deal with it but maybe learn how to play the game instead of just shooting rockets. It hasn't been a successful tactic these last 76, and counting, years. You catch more bees with honey.
I've asked many times, but nobody can name a single country in the region that is or has been a better and more reliable ally for so many years to the US than Israel has.