Israel has been losing support for years, even among American life-long non-Jewish supporters like me. America and Israel have always shared values. This today, and more in the recent pass, since before Netanyahu, before Trump, before Obama, back to Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin these are not values I and a lot of non-Jewish Americans share. I have not recognized Israel as Israel for years. Netanyahu is a dark, cold swine. I have no desire to visit Israel, never had to be candid. I don't share an affinity with a country like that, am not curious about ugly, ugly Israel.
It has been 70 years since Israel's birth, midwifed by Harry Truman. Israel would have been still born without the former U.S. president. It would have been overrun but for American intervention in the 1973 Arab attack. And now America 2.0. This move of the embassy to Jerusalem is not an "America First" foreign policy. The former U.S. gave Israel $5.8 billion in 2013. That after 65 years of existence. I want Israel to survive and to live in peace but it can do that on its own. No country accepting almost $6 billion a year, year after year, for 70 years is an independent country. And the Israeli lobby is the most powerful in Washington, D.C. It has skewed American foreign policy. I don't feel an affinity of values with Israel.
Ugly, ugly Israel. Stop being a money grubbing vassal state. You are not strong. You are strong only because of American support for 70 years. You are not the homeland for Jews. You don't have enough people. America has got more Jews than you have. Netanyahu has to go recruiting Europe to try to get more Jews. You have nothing the U.S. wants, you have no oil, you are not a bulwark of Western civilization in a desert, you do not share our values. Your chosen leaders since Begin have not wanted peace. You want the West Bank, you want Gaza, you want a "Greater Israel," you have wanted and now have Jerusalem. Do it on your own after 70 years.
If Israel cannot survive without unquestioning, reflexive U.S. support then that's on Israelis. Make your country yourselves after 70 years. Have a little, a LOT more, self-respect and self-reliance. If you cannot do that after 70 years then you are not a going concern and are just another of the many failed states created after World War II and deserve to be confined to the dust bin of history with so many other failed states.
