It’s great that you’ve gone in depth on the Israel/US relationship. It is a very delicate subject and I would love to expound with a comment but it’s hard to do without angering someone or sounding one way or another. Thanks Doc. It has been a great topic.
Hi James, I appreciate your post. I think we must sound one way or another. The lives of our children, our country, our culture is at stake. Freedom is at stake.
Great analysis. To make it simple, we subsidize the Defense industry and give $3.3bn in equipment to Israel. We do this because Israel serves our interests in the region. Latest example is Israel using their equipment and ours in bombing Iran in preparation of Epic Fury which otherwise would have been impossible. Another example is Israel destroying Hezbollah allowing the US to claim peace making in Lebanon.
Problem occurs when the US injects our other interests in the region. Rafah is very good example. Kamala “read the map.” In fact, she prevented Israel from finishing the job. The same thing in 2025 when my President told Israel to stand down. Clearly, the motivation was different but the result was the same. But in this case, there probably was a grand plan that led to Epic Fury, I assume so, different motivational indeed. In Harris case it was plain obstruction, here it was planning. But it remains that as long as we “give” Israel a few billions in equipment, they remain our satellite. And the perverse consequence is that it requires that we maintain the concept of US boots on the ground.
In other words, if Israel was “simply” buying $3bn from us, and was self-sufficient, we would have zero say. But we would still need Israel to defend our interests. The dependency would be reversed. Much like what is happening with Ukraine and its drone industry. We are now asking for their help. Ironic.
We have hardly ever put constraints on the enormous aid we've given Israel for over 70 yrs, and hence our country is totally responsible for the indecent way that govt and their supporters have been treating the rest of the population in the middle east, including many many Christians. The new arrangements continue our aid and take away any way we might have had in the past over how they use it. I, for one. strongly object to all of the unconditional support we've given them, let alone the new arrangements in which our hands are tied. It's one more example, like the covid mandates, of how our "representatives" don't actually care what their constituents want or need.
These essays have been SO informative! It occurred to me, while reading this, that it’s likely most of our elected representatives do NOT understand these current relationships! Thank you for unveiling this complicated system.
What Biden did (and Trump has continued) is to highlight what should have been obvious to both parties all the time. The supply of your weapons is control of your policies. It applies to policies other than warfare. Israel has a fundamental problem: they do not have a large enough economy and population to sustain the military that is necessary to their survival. In my opinion, they have the technical, intellectual, and motivation (looking in the mirror here) for survival. Their political fragmentation (looking in the mirror again) works against them. If I am correct in my judgment that they do not have the economic and population prowess to be completely independent, the obvious solution for them is to diversify their supply sources. That is an uncomfortable solution for the USA as well as for Israel--i.e. it fundamentally changes the leverage. That is what I would do in their situation.
I have been perplexed by this one sided view of the Palestine topic and finally just assumed that you had been somehow "brainwashed" into believing the official story, like I was after watching some ~72 hours of the 9/11 live coverage. It took me some 8 years to snap out of it.
Below are two books, that provide sufficient evidence of Israel's human rights violations and provide historical evidence that your assessments in this series need to be re-examined. Luring people you define as an enemy into attacking you is a time honored military tactic. They attack and you spring the trap which wreaks devastating losses on them while incurring only minor ones on yourself. Remember, that since WWII and the firebombing of German and Japanese cities, America and its allies there is no distinction between military and civilian personnel. Today, Israel military forces target Palestinian famine victims at food distribution points run by the UN and other aid groups. Current estimates of those killed in this manner must be close to over two thousand.
War is not the answer, unless you are willing to accept the spiritual harm to yourself of eradicating your enemies.
Thank you for all your efforts,
Alan
1. ASSAULT ON THE LIBERTY: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on American Intelligence Ship
There will never be peace in that region until all the,radical fundamental clerics are neutralized. And that includes strong arming communist movements there. I remember the Iranians who came here for higher ed back in the days,of the Shah....a,much more secular islamic republic. Then the communists started their down with the Shah nonsense (he was paying tor the,education of most of them), got taken over by knuckle walking clerics stood against the wall and we have iran today.
Make no mistake! Islam is their and our most violent and barbarian foe.
Israel is the canary in the coal mine for the civilized world.
They need a free hand when it comes to their own self defense because if Islam is allowed to destroy Israel, the rest of the world may follow.
It’s great that you’ve gone in depth on the Israel/US relationship. It is a very delicate subject and I would love to expound with a comment but it’s hard to do without angering someone or sounding one way or another. Thanks Doc. It has been a great topic.
Hi James, I appreciate your post. I think we must sound one way or another. The lives of our children, our country, our culture is at stake. Freedom is at stake.
Extremely interesting analysis. Thank you for doing the heavy lifting! God bless you both!
Great analysis. To make it simple, we subsidize the Defense industry and give $3.3bn in equipment to Israel. We do this because Israel serves our interests in the region. Latest example is Israel using their equipment and ours in bombing Iran in preparation of Epic Fury which otherwise would have been impossible. Another example is Israel destroying Hezbollah allowing the US to claim peace making in Lebanon.
Problem occurs when the US injects our other interests in the region. Rafah is very good example. Kamala “read the map.” In fact, she prevented Israel from finishing the job. The same thing in 2025 when my President told Israel to stand down. Clearly, the motivation was different but the result was the same. But in this case, there probably was a grand plan that led to Epic Fury, I assume so, different motivational indeed. In Harris case it was plain obstruction, here it was planning. But it remains that as long as we “give” Israel a few billions in equipment, they remain our satellite. And the perverse consequence is that it requires that we maintain the concept of US boots on the ground.
In other words, if Israel was “simply” buying $3bn from us, and was self-sufficient, we would have zero say. But we would still need Israel to defend our interests. The dependency would be reversed. Much like what is happening with Ukraine and its drone industry. We are now asking for their help. Ironic.
Excellent analysis, you present an insight needed that outlines the complex relationship between the US and Israel.
I wonder who is replacing Lindsey Graham, in my opinion, our watchful and excellent statesman?
We have hardly ever put constraints on the enormous aid we've given Israel for over 70 yrs, and hence our country is totally responsible for the indecent way that govt and their supporters have been treating the rest of the population in the middle east, including many many Christians. The new arrangements continue our aid and take away any way we might have had in the past over how they use it. I, for one. strongly object to all of the unconditional support we've given them, let alone the new arrangements in which our hands are tied. It's one more example, like the covid mandates, of how our "representatives" don't actually care what their constituents want or need.
You haven't read the foregoing articles, obviously. Shameful that you comment here anyway.
AS long as they OWN our CONGRESS and PRESIDENT "ISRAEL" IS OUR WORST ENEMY
WE need these ZIONIST out of our BIG BANKING, MEDIA, PHARMA, AND THE COUNTRY!
IF YOUR JEWISH AND live in THE USA AND ARE "NOT" AMERICA FIRST = LEAVE, THIS
IS NOT YOUR COUNTRY !
These essays have been SO informative! It occurred to me, while reading this, that it’s likely most of our elected representatives do NOT understand these current relationships! Thank you for unveiling this complicated system.
What Biden did (and Trump has continued) is to highlight what should have been obvious to both parties all the time. The supply of your weapons is control of your policies. It applies to policies other than warfare. Israel has a fundamental problem: they do not have a large enough economy and population to sustain the military that is necessary to their survival. In my opinion, they have the technical, intellectual, and motivation (looking in the mirror here) for survival. Their political fragmentation (looking in the mirror again) works against them. If I am correct in my judgment that they do not have the economic and population prowess to be completely independent, the obvious solution for them is to diversify their supply sources. That is an uncomfortable solution for the USA as well as for Israel--i.e. it fundamentally changes the leverage. That is what I would do in their situation.
Dear RWM/JGM,
I have been perplexed by this one sided view of the Palestine topic and finally just assumed that you had been somehow "brainwashed" into believing the official story, like I was after watching some ~72 hours of the 9/11 live coverage. It took me some 8 years to snap out of it.
Below are two books, that provide sufficient evidence of Israel's human rights violations and provide historical evidence that your assessments in this series need to be re-examined. Luring people you define as an enemy into attacking you is a time honored military tactic. They attack and you spring the trap which wreaks devastating losses on them while incurring only minor ones on yourself. Remember, that since WWII and the firebombing of German and Japanese cities, America and its allies there is no distinction between military and civilian personnel. Today, Israel military forces target Palestinian famine victims at food distribution points run by the UN and other aid groups. Current estimates of those killed in this manner must be close to over two thousand.
War is not the answer, unless you are willing to accept the spiritual harm to yourself of eradicating your enemies.
Thank you for all your efforts,
Alan
1. ASSAULT ON THE LIBERTY: The True Story of the Israeli Attack on American Intelligence Ship
by James M. Ennes, Jr.
https://www.amazon.com/Assault-Liberty-Israeli-American-Intelligence/dp/0394505123/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LAVM0FWO2NF3&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.rPV6JwckRtbD2Ut8ncRuwAtcTjfLzO4V7hS-D4OsAznGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.4UYrlcDKPjveUbqWZZLOTD536UA9lEfllmTZMSdSmtA&dib_tag=se&keywords=assault+on+the+liberty+james+ennes+jr&qid=1786188625&sprefix=assault+on+the+libert%2Caps%2C724&sr=8-1
2. THE GENERAL'S SON: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled
https://www.amazon.com/Generals-Son-Journey-Israeli-Palestine/dp/1682570029/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PDTM8UABF0QP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.J3jWUvvsfxAQp5yArekZW7jKSuyQ5Hz_Ap5oIFwC7-Y-XGgdqEMiyvjcHK3itWp_.S1kjMbrUPss3jUjQ5RDPukU-qZ0qed_KJWkeX7B5qt8&dib_tag=se&keywords=THE+GENERAL%27S+SON%3A+Journey+of+an+Israeli+in+Palestine+by+Miko+Peled&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1786188836&sprefix=the+general%27s+son+journey+of+an+israeli+in+palestine+by+miko+peled+%2Caps%2C1291&sr=8-1
There will never be peace in that region until all the,radical fundamental clerics are neutralized. And that includes strong arming communist movements there. I remember the Iranians who came here for higher ed back in the days,of the Shah....a,much more secular islamic republic. Then the communists started their down with the Shah nonsense (he was paying tor the,education of most of them), got taken over by knuckle walking clerics stood against the wall and we have iran today.