Israel says "Jump" and America says "How High?"
The 51st State?
United States support for Israel is something I support, for the most part, but Israel and its supporters now have the United States in the position they have been dreaming of for 50 years, that is, the US and Israel in one corner and everyone else in the other.
Israel's bombing of the Syrian training camp over the weekend is worrying because it shows that Israel now feels enpowered to take whatever measures neccesary to assert its influence in the Middle East and to punish terrorists. Putting aside the fact for a second that bombing this camp isn't going to do anything to hault terrorism it seems like a strange move at this time but it fits perfectly into Israel's long-range plans for the region.
Those plans include joining with the United States to re-order the map of the Middle East so it is more conducive to Israeli and American interests. Israel has no bigger defender than the group of neo-cons in the White House led by Paul Wolfowitz and John Bolton and America has no stronger ally in its efforts to remake the Middle East than Israel. Israel has proven time and time again with its defiance of world opinion on the building of its border fence and other actions that it feels entirely capable of doing whatever it wants, whenever it wants, and it wouldn't feel this way if the someone in the Bush administration had given it the green light to do so.
No doubt the US will once again use its veto in the Security Council to block any sort of condemnation of the Israeli raid on Syria and no doubt the vote will be 14-1 against the US, again. Somewhere in Tel Aviv a senior group of Israeli politicans are cackling and rubbing their hands in glee.
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