The recent justification of the defense of Israel's right to exist is related to an apocalyptic view that Charismatic/fundamentalist hold. They believe that to support Israel means that when Armageddon occurs that America will be spared. The original reason for the establishment of Israel was on humanitarian reasons to protect Jews from further persecution by creating a homeland where they could feel secure. Despite almost continual warfare Israel has prospered, albeit with substantial military and economic support from the U.S. It is also a democratic nation surrounded by totalitarian regimes, until about 1 year ago. However, its belligerence in the persecution of Palestinians and the refusal to allow for a limited autonomy for the Palestinian State has placed the US in a precarious situation and has generally caused Israel to be considered a liability to Liberals in the U.S. instead of an asset. Israel has also alienated the one democracy in the area, Turkey, which it once had friendly relations.
The other reason that the U.S. supports Israel is geopolitical. It provides for a country that is friendly to the US amidst those that are moderately to lukewarm about the US presence in the Middle East. Israel gives us a permanent proxy base in the region to defend American interests. In a Realist point of view of foreign policy, this trumps the previously mention religious view and the humanitarian view for reasons to defend Israel. It is the U.S.’s self-interest to defend Israel as a paid surrogate for protecting its economic and political concerns.
These stances are not new, but have been prevalent in American foreign policy and political thought for several decades. What has brought these world views into the forefront is the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons and threats from Iran toward Israel.
These stances are not new, but have been prevalent in American foreign policy and political thought for several decades. What has brought these world views into the forefront is the possibility of Iran developing nuclear weapons and threats from Iran toward Israel.
Behind the curtains, in the present conflict with Iran is a Noe-Conservative agenda to secure another country-Iran-to be brought into the sphere of influence of the US and provide it with cheap petroleum. Conveniently (and perhaps orchestrated by this group of radical Republicans), as the conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan are dissipating, a new war is being ‘invented’ to draw the U.S. into a war with Iran to serve their world vision. They are co-opting the Religious Right's support of Israel and the threat of nuclear proliferation as a ruse for their ultimate view of creating a globe dominated by the US for the sole purpose of supplying it with the necessary natural resources and global economic/political domination.
It is Iraq and Afghanistan repeated again within the Neo-Conservative's mindset. To them: Iraq was not compliant with supplying US with cheap petroleum. and Afghanistan was useful because of its connection with a proposed pipeline going from Central Asian to ports in Pakistan. Likewise, now is the time to bring Iran "under the umbrella' of the domination of American capitalisit domination and within its political sphere of influence.. The Neo-Conservative subterfuge in the case of the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan was to ‘stop world terrorism’, precipitated by 9/11. In the case of Iran, they have found two very convenient means to create a ‘smoke-screen’ to hide their agenda. The Neo-Conservatives serve the One Percent and have no interest in the overall welfare of the US public, but only accumulating more wealth in the hands of a few. That the overall health of the U.S. economy and the lives of our young men and ladies are sacrifices for their cause is just a necessary evil for obtaining their distorted global vision.
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