The Zionist Union, a center-left Israeli political party, and the main opponent of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the recent elections, issued a statement today that is poignant and painful reading: "Israel and the US must reach a comprehensive understanding...empowering and expanding...the IDF's defensive and offensive capabilities, a strengthening of the existing alliance and strategic cooperation that will increase Israel's deterrence ability, in a way that will give Israel an American umbrella and unrestricted ability to act" when Israel feels its national security endangered.
Unrestricted by the U.S. That makes me feel really bad. Israel is our friend, the Jewish people in America and in Israel are our friends, you don't make friends seek permission from you to fight for their survival. They are not friends then, they are wards. Makes me feel terrible. Israel has the right to act in its own national security interests. Should have that right, anyhow. Jesus Christ.
Israel is in a similar position to that of Great Britain when it faced Hitler alone at the start of World War II. Without Lend-Lease, Britain would not have survived. Then, President Roosevelt explained that he was lending a "garden hose" to a neighbor to put out a house fire. Here, the Zionist Union asks for hoses too. Done. Been done. Been done for 66 years! Israel also asks for an "umbrella." Wants the US to hold the hoses and hold the umbrella over its head. No. After 66 years Israel should not be asking the US to hold an umbrella over its head. But it is. No! Jesus Christ.
I don't know why President Obama wants the Iran negotiations to go in the direction they are. But he is. The US is giving Iran nuclear weapons in 10-15 years. Israel has nuclear weapons, they must have the "unrestricted ability to act" as they see fit for their national security, including the use of their nuclear weapons. They cannot have the US telling them what to do! But the US should not be holding an umbrella over Israel's head as if we are doormen. Jesus Christ.
Unrestricted by the U.S. That makes me feel really bad. Israel is our friend, the Jewish people in America and in Israel are our friends, you don't make friends seek permission from you to fight for their survival. They are not friends then, they are wards. Makes me feel terrible. Israel has the right to act in its own national security interests. Should have that right, anyhow. Jesus Christ.
Israel is in a similar position to that of Great Britain when it faced Hitler alone at the start of World War II. Without Lend-Lease, Britain would not have survived. Then, President Roosevelt explained that he was lending a "garden hose" to a neighbor to put out a house fire. Here, the Zionist Union asks for hoses too. Done. Been done. Been done for 66 years! Israel also asks for an "umbrella." Wants the US to hold the hoses and hold the umbrella over its head. No. After 66 years Israel should not be asking the US to hold an umbrella over its head. But it is. No! Jesus Christ.
I don't know why President Obama wants the Iran negotiations to go in the direction they are. But he is. The US is giving Iran nuclear weapons in 10-15 years. Israel has nuclear weapons, they must have the "unrestricted ability to act" as they see fit for their national security, including the use of their nuclear weapons. They cannot have the US telling them what to do! But the US should not be holding an umbrella over Israel's head as if we are doormen. Jesus Christ.
