Fishlore
Silver Member
To much of the world, Israel is a rogue nuclear state in illegal occupation of the West Bank and with a human rights record down at the bottom of the list. It doesn't matter whether you or I agree with that characterization, but it does explain why, were it not for the US vetoes in the Security Council, Israel would have long since abandoned its annexation of lebensraum in Judea and Samaria and been placed under IAEA sanctions much as Iran and North Korea.
The Jewish State is in a pickle and it cannot shoot its way out. The USA has only limited ability to sustain the Israeli state in the face of world opinion. No state utterly dependent on another for its survival can be considered truly sovereign. Even American domestic politics can not sustain support for Israel as it becomes clearer and clearer that Israel has abandoned the two-state solution to which it is formally committed and is interested in annexation.
The Jewish State is in a pickle and it cannot shoot its way out. The USA has only limited ability to sustain the Israeli state in the face of world opinion. No state utterly dependent on another for its survival can be considered truly sovereign. Even American domestic politics can not sustain support for Israel as it becomes clearer and clearer that Israel has abandoned the two-state solution to which it is formally committed and is interested in annexation.