One Way Ally

 

Merriam-Webster: Ally

a: a sovereign or state associated with another by treaty or league

b: the Allies : the nations that fought together against Germany in World War I or World War II

2: one that is associated with another as a helper : a person or group that provides assistance and support in an ongoing effort, activity, or struggle

No, the United States does not have a formal mutual defense treaty or alliance with Israel. No, Israel doesn’t financially support the United States. And no, Israel has never been a military ally of the United States.

It’s a “One Way Ally”. Foreign aid has been cut to every other country but Israel.

But we’re always reminded, “Israel has the right to defend itself!”

Okay.

Does apartheid have the right to defend itself?

Does illegal occupation have the right to defend itself?

Does theft of homes and land have the right to defend itself?

Does expanding its borders towards a “Greater Israel” have the right to defend itself?

Does ethnic cleansing have the right to defend itself?

Does genocide have the right to defend itself?

These are different questions with different considerations. Apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide are bad. Most of the world agrees Israel is guilty of these. 

“Greater Israel” is the Zionist version of the Third Reich’s “Lebensraum” expansion.

Zionists will quickly condemn me as “antisemitic” for daring to compare ANYTHING the Israeli radical Right says or does to the Third Reich.

Too often left out of the discussion is, “Do Palestinians have a right to self-defense and the land they lived on”? Or do Palestinians have any rights whatsoever?

Do Zionists have a right to attack me for these questions and observations? Is this included as Israel's right to self-defense? Good questions. I’m willing to let the facts make my case.

I’m sure I would be accused of supporting Hamas if I dare to point to the fact that establishing the ethnoreligious state of Israel was lighting the fuses to the powder kegs of permanent war in the Middle East. Israel has been at war from before its inception. I don’t blame the Jewish people. Ultimately it’s all Hitler’s fault. (This surely won’t stop anyone from calling me antisemitic.) The WWII Allies, minus the Soviet Union, had sympathies for a Jewish state. They were well-intentioned, albeit ill-considered, to serve as compensation for the people who suffered from the Holocaust.

I believe it would have been a better idea to allow the European Jews to move to the United States instead of displacing Arabs in Palestine. (Am I still being antisemitic?”)

That’s all history and we can’t turn back the years. Now the difficulty is finding a way for Israel, its neighbors, and Palestinians to get along with each other. It’s never easy to reach an armistice for ancient tribal religious wars.  The only way I see out of the mess is to convince Muslims and Jews of the fact that religion is their primary problem, despite both being Abrahamic in origin. 

It’s the nature of religious conservatives and nationalists to become hostile to people of other faiths. “God told us”, or “God promised us this land”, will ALWAYS be the wrong solution to tribal/religious conflict.  

Yet here we are. I’m not just blaming Jews and Muslims, either. American Christian nationalism suffers from the same delusions.

Recently a fellow blogger who strongly dislikes dissent, especially from me, made his case for supporting Trump’s war for Netanyahu. Now he’s no doubt angry at Michigan for voting for Abdul El-Sayed over the Zionist woman who was backed by over $30 million in AIPAC money. Abdul's sin was to agree with the broad international consensus that the Netanyahu Regime was committing ethnic cleansing and genocide. He’s troubled by the Democratic Senate candidate for suggesting support for Israel should be conditional and that our money would be better spent helping Americans. Again, this is antisemitic in Zionist eyes.

I want to address our Zionist blogger's opening remarks at one of his posts.

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"Vote blue no matter who" is just "my country right or wrong" on the level of a mere political party rather than a nation.  In both cases, applying it without regard to the details of the particular situation could lead to supporting some pretty awful things.

In 1991, when anti-Semite and former KKK "grand wizard" David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana as a Republican, the party repudiated him and major Republican figures such as President Bush vigorously denounced him.  This week, after Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan, prominent Democratic figures rallied around him -- even some like Buttigieg whom I would have expected to know better.  Only a few, such as Fetterman, had the guts to speak out against him.

This may be a sign of the degeneration of politics in general over time.  I'm not at all sure that today's Republicans would repudiate a candidate like David Duke either.

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I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that this particular fellow blogger would wildly equate Abdul El-Sayed with David Duke.

It shows whether they are Democrats or Christian nationalist Republicans, Zionists will put the interests of Netanyahu and his apartheid Israel over America  (Yes, even Jimmy Carter knew it's apartheid.) Islamophobia is part and parcel of the Zionist creed. See Bill Maher. Our loyal Zionists cheer Trump for joining Netanyahu's war on Iran.

(Never mind the rising costs for struggling Americans. Just for this war, the average household has paid over $600 in higher gas and food costs. It is certain to cost much more. But hey, we don't mind having less money for healthcare, just to help Israelis have their universal care while they slaughter tens of thousands and deprive millions of people of their homes.)

If we don't like it, we're Islamic terrorist lovers to Zionists, I'm sure.

American Zionists are quite tolerant of illegal settlers murdering West Bank Palestinians and taking their homes.

And so what if IDF forces shoot kids and medics in the head and bomb aid convoys and workers? 

Israel’s attack on April 1 on the World Central Kitchen convoy, which killed seven workers, far from being an isolated “mistake,” is just one of at least eight incidents that Human Rights Watch identified in which aid organizations and UN agencies had communicated with Israeli authorities the GPS coordinates of an aid convoy or premises and yet Israeli forces attacked the convoy or shelter without any warning.

Ethnic cleansing and genocide are cool when Israel does it. Just call it “self-defense”.

A UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (Zionists HATE the UN.)

International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS): The world’s largest professional organization of genocide scholars passed a formal resolution stating that Israel's conduct in Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide.

Human rights groups: Prominent organizations such as B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel, alongside international groups like Amnesty International and Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders have published reports concluding that Israeli policies in Gaza constitute genocide.

Radical American Zionists believe they understand what's going on better than this person:

Israeli-born genocide scholar and IDF veteran Omer Bartov explains why incitement, displacement and the destruction of civilian life can meet the legal bar for genocide, even without gas chambers or shooting pits.

And Fetterman?? He may have guts, but his brain isn't operating at full capacity. Naturally, he gravitates to FOX(R) for attention. 

He gets it. He knows everyone critical of Israel is a raging Jihadist, salivating to impose Sharia law in the US.

Now Democratic Zionists all but prefer the Senate remaining in Trump's hands rather than having a Muslim as a member. El-Sayed's opponent will be the Zionist Republican Mike Rogers.

I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say MAGA and Zionism make a toxic mix.

Zionist Republican senators sent a threatening letter to the International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned".

As if we didn't already have enough evidence that Trump and his party are mobsters.

THAT should teach us a lesson. Serve Israel and support the Criminal Trump Cartel, or else...