They don’t need the bennies. Most of the Bennies go to US weapons contractors, like Raytheon for Iron Dome* interceptors. Egypt needs the bennies, Saudi needs Uncle Sam, Israel only needs not to be rogue nation. Moving slowly it can, while keeping Israeli casualties down, always an issue.
* Had Uncle Sam not made Israel give up the strate…
They don’t need the bennies. Most of the Bennies go to US weapons contractors, like Raytheon for Iron Dome* interceptors. Egypt needs the bennies, Saudi needs Uncle Sam, Israel only needs not to be rogue nation. Moving slowly it can, while keeping Israeli casualties down, always an issue.
* Had Uncle Sam not made Israel give up the strategic depth (distance) in Sinai, Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank they wouldn’t need Iron Dome.
Israel is a stick we beat cheap oil out of the Arabs with, the Palestinians are a stick the Arabs use to beat the Jews.
As we don’t need the oil anymore, we’re not stuck in the Middle East. We have the option to leave and ... we were with the Abraham accords getting closer.
The world has changed with fracking combined with our disgust at our own 🇺🇸Imperialism.
We’re 🇺🇸 contracting. The Palestinians are a leftover legacy account from the Cold War.
They mean nothing to us, and refuse to let peace happen even when defeated.
"The Palestinians are a leftover legacy account from the Cold War."
You got it in one. The national security state was bedded down in time to play games over partition in 1948 and, in a sense, they played them very well indeed.
The US did not drive the Brits out of the Middle East entirely, but since Suez Westminster has been loyal to a fault.
The US managed to keep Israel from joining the Soviet bloc (perhaps with help from false intelligence fed to Stalin via Philby...just a suspicion I have concerning the reach of Allen Dulles).
The US limited Soviet gains in the Middle East to Egypt under Nasser and Syria, Iraq and Libya. The US kept both Turkey and Greece within NATO.
Above all else Washington used its relationship with the Sa'udis and Iranians to establish the petrodollar...a goose that has been laying golden eggs ever since. And I have not even mentioned the arms market...
Uncle Sam has done very well in the Middle East over all. The rubble of Gaza distresses some, but the trust funds of the radicals will do well enough from fracking regardless of all else. Whatever self-disgust Americans might feel over imperialism should be savoured by the blue-haired cohort alone. The only essential item of business now is securing well-being at home and that will require dismantling the Resistance Inc. franchises in North America and managing immigration with a degree of realism.
They don’t need the bennies. Most of the Bennies go to US weapons contractors, like Raytheon for Iron Dome* interceptors. Egypt needs the bennies, Saudi needs Uncle Sam, Israel only needs not to be rogue nation. Moving slowly it can, while keeping Israeli casualties down, always an issue.
* Had Uncle Sam not made Israel give up the strategic depth (distance) in Sinai, Gaza, Lebanon, West Bank they wouldn’t need Iron Dome.
Israel is a stick we beat cheap oil out of the Arabs with, the Palestinians are a stick the Arabs use to beat the Jews.
As we don’t need the oil anymore, we’re not stuck in the Middle East. We have the option to leave and ... we were with the Abraham accords getting closer.
The world has changed with fracking combined with our disgust at our own 🇺🇸Imperialism.
We’re 🇺🇸 contracting. The Palestinians are a leftover legacy account from the Cold War.
They mean nothing to us, and refuse to let peace happen even when defeated.
So be it.
"The Palestinians are a leftover legacy account from the Cold War."
You got it in one. The national security state was bedded down in time to play games over partition in 1948 and, in a sense, they played them very well indeed.
The US did not drive the Brits out of the Middle East entirely, but since Suez Westminster has been loyal to a fault.
The US managed to keep Israel from joining the Soviet bloc (perhaps with help from false intelligence fed to Stalin via Philby...just a suspicion I have concerning the reach of Allen Dulles).
The US limited Soviet gains in the Middle East to Egypt under Nasser and Syria, Iraq and Libya. The US kept both Turkey and Greece within NATO.
Above all else Washington used its relationship with the Sa'udis and Iranians to establish the petrodollar...a goose that has been laying golden eggs ever since. And I have not even mentioned the arms market...
Uncle Sam has done very well in the Middle East over all. The rubble of Gaza distresses some, but the trust funds of the radicals will do well enough from fracking regardless of all else. Whatever self-disgust Americans might feel over imperialism should be savoured by the blue-haired cohort alone. The only essential item of business now is securing well-being at home and that will require dismantling the Resistance Inc. franchises in North America and managing immigration with a degree of realism.