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Devil_May_Cry posted...

So supporting our greatest ally in their time of need

Massacring civilians en masse and deliberately engineering one of the worst refugee crises in recent memory are not "needs" that I particularly care to support. I'm all for helping Israel defend themselves as needed (I think establishing the country after WWII was a mistake, but at this point reversing that decision would likely cause more harm than good, so we can really only work with what we've got), but what's happening right now is not defense. It's genocide.

To call Israel anyone's "greatest ally" is also quite the stretch. Globally, the country is a pretty minor power with little historical significance to back up that title (bearing in mind that they didn't exist during either World War and weren't particularly involved in any other high-stakes conflicts since their inception). The largest benefit they offer as an ally is a staging ground for any offensives the West wants to conduct in the Middle East, which is useful, but hardly "greatest ally" material when you can name a country that single-handedly allowed the US to form in the first place.