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In reply to the discussion: Clinton: U.N. Palestine Vote ‘Unfortunate And Counterproductive’ [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)I don't disagree that Israel is being used by the US. Nothing else explains the one-sided support for them regardless of what they do. Maybe Israel should look at the US's history with its many former allies. We don't have a good record of being loyal to those who fell over backwards, even harming their own citizens, thus alienating them, on our behalf, (and their own of course, there's always a pay-off). Once the US has no more use for former allies, such as Saddam Hussein or Noriega to use some of our more extreme 'betrayals', we dump them and either leave them to their fate, or ensure that fate ourselves.
Same thing with Mubarak, Ben Ali and so many others who were dropped like hot potatoes once they could not be of any more use to us and left to deal with the results of their own betrayal of the people they should have been building up relationships with.
If Israel is being used by the US, they are doing things to alienate just about everyone in the world but mostly their neighbors and IF the US follows its usual pattern, once we are done with them, they will be left to face alone, without their protectors, the wrath of those they are currently alienating.
It might be better for them to face reality. Once the US is free from the need for oil in the ME, Israel may very well be on its own and now might be the time to start making friends with their neighbors as an investment in their own future.