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Maybe things have changed, but isn’t this considered anti-semitism:
” he was asked if he had ever been an agent of the Israeli government.”
Asking about dual loyalty until a few minutes ago I feel like has always been something you are not allowed to do. And since it’s a Jew that means the ADL gets you banned from every social media platform and payment system. Even implying that Ilhan Omar isn’t loyal to the US (after she gives a speech professing love to Somalia) is considered a dog whistle.
Have things changed this much on the Jewish question because I feel like not too long ago this was a straight to jail question.
Shapiro described himself in his own words as a "past volunteer in the Israeli army." He also worked briefly in the Israeli embassy- no; not the US embassy in Israel, the Israeli embassy in Washington:
Screaming anti-Semitism in the face of questions over "dual loyalty" is losing effectiveness because the problem of dual loyalty among Zionist Jews in the American government is undeniably a very real phenomenon. They clearly do identify and love that foreign country and advocate for it and work for it directly! They are loyal to Israel, there is no question. You cannot serve two masters.
Why not? Israel is a client state of the USA. It's normal for empires to influence their client states and be influenced in turn. It's normal for imperial subjects from client states to simultaneously be loyal to the empire and also try to influence it in ways that favor their homeland.
Lots of people have served two masters throughout history. As long as both masters are on the same team there's no real issue with it.
It is not a client state, it's an aspirational empire. It's not a good idea to have people run your empire that are loyal to a foreign empire, because they will probably use their power to exploit your empire to the benefit of that foreign empire.
It's an 'aspirational empire' with a population of only 10 million. The city of Beijing alone has 22 million. An ambitious enclave in a foreign land isn't a rival, it's an attack dog. Think of the British East India Company and its relationship to its own parent state.
It is no longer an "ambitious enclave", after Zionist Jews in the American government influence Trump to overthrow Iran on behalf of Israel, which is going to happen imminently, Israel will be the undisputed hegemon in the region. Imagine if Rome were dominated by Carthegian-loyal senators who influenced Rome to destroy all of Carthage's enemies so Carthage could be the undisputed hegemon in the region. That's not a hypothetical, that is the present day, and it's the consequence of allowing your society and culture to be governed by a people loyal to a foreign empire.
You're going to need a lot of evidence for that claim when the simple explanation that the American government wants a government with nuclear ICBM aspiration that holds regular "death to America" chants changed is much more fitting. It certainly seems more in the interests of America than Israel, which will have to deal with the fallout of a neighbor's regime collapse.
Also, Israel will still be almost an order of magnitude less dominant in the region than Turkey, and much less than the Saudis as well. It's not even close to being a regionally dominant power.
Where do you think the animosity from Iran and its urgency to have a nuclear deterrent fomes from? It comes from Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, all locations in which the US and Israel directly flexed hard military power to achieve regime change on behalf of Israel's geopolitical objectives. Iran has only made it this far because if its missile deterrent.
Israel has been hostile and aggressive against all of its regional neighbors and used the US for its dirty work, and it's a shock that makes an enemy of Iran? It's one of the steep costs of this pseudo-alliance with Israel, which is not an alliance at all. It's subversive and always has been.
The notion that Turkey has 10 times more domination of those neighbors than Israel, who is actively bombing them and taking credit for overthrowing Assad and on the verge of overthrowing Iran, is of course totally delusional.
This is just geopolitically and historically ignorant. No, the US did not bomb or invade these countries at the behest of Israel. It was because of America's geopolitical objectives, which were to implement democracy and stabilize the region so that oil flow would not be impeded. The reason why Israel is an American ally is because they're the only meaningful democracy in the region and have most of the same objectives..
o act like Iran, an Islamic theocracy which hates America on a very fundamental ideological basis, only points its ire towards America because it invaded Iraq (which tried to invade Iran by the way, among other neighbors) and bombed ISIS and Libya is just factually incorrect. Iran's regime has been fanatically anti-America long before any of this went on and would still be even if its objectives of destroying Israel succeeded.
Do you know the history of Israel and what it's neighbors goals explicitly state they wanted and still want to do to it?
That Turkey is not at war with its neighbors is not evidence that it's much more powerful than Israel. It has more than 9 times the population, a much larger militaryt and it's also not totally ineffectually commanded like most Arabs in the region.
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