What makes Israel so special?

“What makes Israel so special?”

It’s a client state of the US – allowing America to fight terrorism and kill Muslims without getting its hands (too) dirty.

Israel also tests America’s weapon systems in real-world situations without risking American lives.

And Israel is the only nuclear power in the ME (that we know of).

Yep, a U.S. outpost - on stolen land.

Native Americans can easily identify with what has been done to the Palestinians.

"The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict," and the book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel."
 
Seriously, I don't get it. Why? The country has a strong economy, landmarks of significance to several religions and strained relationships with many of its Arab neighbors. The founding of modern Israel can be traced back to World War I, when Zionists lobbied the British for recognition of a Jewish state in Palestine.

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid: until February 2022, the United States had provided Israel US$150 billion (non-inflation-adjusted) in bilateral assistance.

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Washington, DC, said that the US contributes $3bn a year in military aid to Israel. Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of United States foreign assistance since World War II.


What do you think?
IAPAC gives American politicians a lot of money.
 
Israel is special in that it is the first indigenous nation which has managed to re-assert sovereignty over lands once lost to invaders, conquerors, and colonizers.
 
Native Americans can easily identify with what has been done to the Palestinians.
Sadly, the Israelis are doing this to the Palestinians today!!

BoBo has called up thousands of soldiers for one purpose, and one purpose only.

To mass murder as many Palestinians as he can as quickly as he can.
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Sadly, the Israelis are doing this to the Palestinians today!!

BoBo has called up thousands of soldiers for one purpose, and one purpose only.

To mass murder as many Palestinians as he can as quickly as he can.
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Amen! I totally agree! It's the opportunity that Nutanyahoo and his terrorist government have been waiting for.
 
Seriously, I don't get it. Why? The country has a strong economy, landmarks of significance to several religions and strained relationships with many of its Arab neighbors. The founding of modern Israel can be traced back to World War I, when Zionists lobbied the British for recognition of a Jewish state in Palestine.

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid: until February 2022, the United States had provided Israel US$150 billion (non-inflation-adjusted) in bilateral assistance.

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Washington, DC, said that the US contributes $3bn a year in military aid to Israel. Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of United States foreign assistance since World War II.


What do you think?
Not quite accurate. The League of Nation's Mandate for Palestine, under which authority Britain managed Palestine stated that a homeland for Jews would be established within the Mandate but did not specify it would be a sovereign state. At first the British tried to comply, but by the late 1920's the British decided it would be better for them to side with the Arabs opposed to a Jewish homeland in the Mandate and it was in response to reversal of policy that the Jews in Palestine decided they must have their own sovereign state to remain safe.

It was not until 1931, when it became clear the Brits would not follow the League of Nations instructions to establish a homeland for the Jews in Palestine that the Jews recognized that homeland had to be a sovereign state, and they did not lobby the Brits for but demanded it and eventually drove the Brits out of Palestine. The British never forgave the Israelis for humiliating them in Palestine.

As for the US aid to Israel, it was nominal until after the Six Day War. In 1967, the free world seemed to be losing the Cold War to the Soviets everywhere else, but Israel crushed the Soviet client states, Egypt and Syria and effectively drove the Soviets out of the ME. If Israel had lost that war, only Jordan would have stood between the Soviets and the ME oil fields, and the US would have had to send troops to Saudi Arabia and perhaps would have had to fight the Soviets to keep them from controlling the ME oil supplies. The US recognized that it was an advantage to the US to have a strong and capable ally in the ME and sharply increased aid to Israel, however it was not until Sadat threw the Soviets out after the 1973 war and proposed peace with Israel that the US promised to provide enough military aid to both countries that neither would be vulnerable to attack by the other, and that's how US aid to Israel reached its present level. Every increase in aid served US interests.
 
The Palestinians never owned it.
Israelis are squatters today.
Palestinians
(Arabic: الفلسطينيون, al-Filasṭīniyyūn; Hebrew: פָלַסְטִינִים, Fālasṭīnīm) or Palestinian people (الشعب الفلسطيني, ash-sha‘b al-Filasṭīnī), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (العرب الفلسطينيون, al-ʿArab al-Filasṭīniyyūn), are an Arab ethnonational group descending from people who have inhabited the region of Palestine over the millennia, and who are today culturally and linguistically Arab.

Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the territory of former Mandatory Palestine, now encompassing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (the Palestinian territories) as well as Israel. In this combined area, as of 2022, Palestinians constitute a demographic majority, with an estimated population of 7.503 million or 51.16% (as compared to Jews at 46-47%) of all inhabitants.

In 1919, Palestinian Muslims and Palestinian Christians constituted 90 percent of the population of Palestine

the term "Palestinian" evolved into a sense of a shared future in the form of aspirations for a Palestinian state. Today, the Palestinian identity encompasses the heritage of all ages from biblical times up to the Ottoman period.

Palestinians - Wikipedia

The Israelis are squatters.

Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use.
Squatting - Wikipedia

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Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the territory of former Mandatory Palestine, now encompassing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (the Palestinian territories) as well as Israel. In this combined area, as of 2022, Palestinians constitute a demographic majority, with an estimated population of 7.503 million or 51.16% (as compared to Jews at 46-47%) of all inhabitants.

Why are you leaving out Jordan?
 
Yep, a U.S. outpost - on stolen land.

Native Americans can easily identify with what has been done to the Palestinians.

"The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict," and the book, "Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel."
Stolen from whom? For 400 years before WWI, the land was ruled by the Ottoman Empire, and then by the League of Nations and then was given to the Jews and Arabs by the UN in the Partition resolution, and then illegally occupied by Jordan in 1948 and then abandoned by Jordan in the Six Day War. While many of the so called Palestinians lived there through all of this, they never collectively controlled or governed the land, so they had no collective rights to it. You may be able to find cases in which individual property rights were violated, but there is no rational basis for asserting the Palestinians had any collective rights to it.
 
The Palestinians were there way before the UN gave in to the Zionist outcry for a land they could unlawfully claim.
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They were there and they are still there, but they never governed the land and they still don't. They have individual property rights, but they have no collective property rights, and they never did. While the majority of the people in Palestine were Muslim Arabs, Jews have maintained a presence there since biblical time, while some of those called Palestinians can trace their family histories back for a very long time, others who are called Palestinians are descendants of Egyptians who followed the British into Palestine after WWI. There were no laws governing claims to the land after the Ottoman Empire gave it up, so none of the claims could have been unlawful, and the UN took up the issue because there were no such laws.

If you were familiar with the events of the time, rather than just being familiar with propaganda about it, you would know the UN never gave the land to the Jews; it just recommended a division of the land between the Jews and the Arabs in an effort to stop the fighting between them (the Partition Resolution). The Jews accepted the recommendations, but the Arabs rejected them, still the UN didn't officially recognize the state of Israel. It wasn't until May 1949, four months after the new state of Israel defeated the combined might of the Arab nations, that the UN officially recognized Israel as a sovereign state and admitted to the UN. Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon were created by the British and French under the auspices of the League of Nations, but Israel was created by the Israeli Jews without help from the UN or any other nation.
 
What makes Israel so special?

6,000,000 Jews slaughtered within Living Memory.

And a people who finally rediscovered their ball$ after 2,000 years and started standing up for themselves again.

Not to mention kicking Arab-Muslim a$$ time-and-again, against all odds.

What makes Israel so special?

Ball$.
 
Seriously, I don't get it. Why? The country has a strong economy, landmarks of significance to several religions and strained relationships with many of its Arab neighbors. The founding of modern Israel can be traced back to World War I, when Zionists lobbied the British for recognition of a Jewish state in Palestine.

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid: until February 2022, the United States had provided Israel US$150 billion (non-inflation-adjusted) in bilateral assistance.

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Washington, DC, said that the US contributes $3bn a year in military aid to Israel. Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of United States foreign assistance since World War II.


What do you think?
Try reading a Bible clown.
 
Israel is special because of the Holocaust.

The Jewish people now have a tiny, tiny slice of land in the Holy Land that belongs to them and gives them protection against another Holocaust.

"Never again" is the rallying cry of the Israeli people.
 
Seriously, I don't get it. Why? The country has a strong economy, landmarks of significance to several religions and strained relationships with many of its Arab neighbors. The founding of modern Israel can be traced back to World War I, when Zionists lobbied the British for recognition of a Jewish state in Palestine.

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid: until February 2022, the United States had provided Israel US$150 billion (non-inflation-adjusted) in bilateral assistance.

Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Washington, DC, said that the US contributes $3bn a year in military aid to Israel. Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of United States foreign assistance since World War II.


What do you think?

Which other countries have an eager participate of genocide on their border? Kosovo... a few others maybe.... there are regions which also have this.... But Israel is probably the one that defies the odds the most.
 

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