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The US’s Strategic Alliance With Israel is a Disaster

Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain

It’s difficult to imagine a greater U.S. strategic mistake than to align itself in any fashion with Israel.  The United States and Israel have different objectives and strategic goals in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf.  Israel is trying to “change the map of the Middle East.” It therefore is trying to create instability throughout the region in its effort to secure geopolitical domination.

The United States should be trying to extricate itself from a region that has become a briar patch.  It therefore should be trying to encourage greater stability in the region to allow for such a withdrawal.  Meanwhile, the U.S. mainstream media, which is biased in favor of Israel, says very little about the dangers of any U.S.-Israeli alliance.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an anti-American ideologue.  Netanyahu himself has been branded as a war criminal for his genocidal campaign against the Palestinians, and he is giving every indication of pursuing a similar strategy in Israel’s current conflict with both Iran and Lebanon.  U.S. media also pull their punches in discussing Netanyahu.

The long history of Israeli anti-Americanism is rarely discussed, although it is not a new........

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