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The MOU Homesick Blues
Over the last two days, Donald Trump and JD Vance have been selling their embryonic Iran Deal to the American public and to the world. Trump has said, among other things:
Directly he states:
Along with this banger
JD has said:
Israeli ministers have been striking out against the deal
Now reports are coming in that Israel does not consider itself bound by the MOU, and intends to keep bombing Lebanon without reference to it.
The IRGC has stated today:
With the United States executive committed to the MOU, and Israel committed to the opposite policy, Yeshiva World News reports:
So, what now?
How does the USA navigate this problem with its erstwhile ally?
Part of me feels very strongly, the patriotic Toby Keith, regardless of your feelings about US policy or about this administration, that we can't have our president get cucked like that on the world stage. Trump has publicly signed, endorsed, justified, sold the MOU. He's stated clearly that it is necessary to the interests of the United States in maintaining the global economy. If Israel is our ally, our greatest ally, then they can't be allowed to do this to us. They can't insult and undermine the clear foreign policy of the POTUS and be allowed to do so. From the beginning I've said that Israeli forces, inasmuch as they are allied to the USA, should be under the command of an American general, Spartan style. They can't be allowed to go against us and continue to suck off the teat of the American taxpayer.
So plan trusters, antisemities, pro-Palestinians, shitlibs, anyone. Where do we go from here with Israel? What happens next? How can you, as the American President, allow your ally to undermine your own clearly stated foreign policy goals and, in your own opinion, wreck the world economy? At this point in the process what pressure can even be put on Iran?
This feels bad.
The problem is that Israel thinks they're a lot stronger and smarter than they actually are.
They think they can get away with 5D chess gambits like Netanyahu facilitating payments to Hamas so as to divide the Palestinians and so further pursue their divide and conquer/settle policy.
What a retard! Same with their overt and obnoxious propaganda campaign, how Israel has 'the most moral army'. It's been counterproductive.
They think they're a military superpower, yet they can't seem to handle Lebanon. The Lebanese army isn't even fighting them, just Hezbollah. They fought Hamas for a couple of years and didn't manage to destroy a small force, totally encircled, without air power or any heavy weapons. Somehow Hamas got the drop on them in October 7th, so much for all-knowing Mossad!
But they think they can take on Iran?
The Israeli military is not that capable, it can't perform the (challenging) offensive tasks their politicians have in mind. They can do standoff attacks and elaborate assassination stunts. They can shoot and shell and scorch the earth but can't seem to hold much ground. Unfortunately for them, ground wars are won by holding ground and destroying armies.
The solution is to puncture their delusions of strength. The US should cut off military support until Israel complies with commands. F-35s can't fly without spare parts. Israel relies heavily on US satellites and aerial refuelling and the actual munitions themselves. Israel's military-industrial base is weak and top heavy, just like the military itself. They design drones and high-tech weapons. But they can't produce the myriad precursors in steel and chemicals needed for those weapons. No country of 10 million can. It makes no sense to be selling or transferring (the US has these stocks of weapons 'pre-deployed' in Israel that Israel sometimes taps) munitions and parts to a country harming one's national interests, while America also faces a shortage of munitions.
Israel is a small country and needs to start acting like it. Less bombing, more peace treaties and a bit of sincerity in actually adhering to ceasefires and accepting limits on territorial aspirations. Israel has never even officially defined the permanent territory in its borders, they're incredibly opportunistic and aggressive.
All of this, but from my perspective Israel's current policy is Jewish neuroticism writ large.
I have Jewish friends and I love them for their intelligence and wit, but whenever politics or conversation comes to Zionism, they turn into different people. The Holocaust has burned a collective trauma across the Jewish community (reinforcing the historical trauma of the pogroms) that causes them to act out.
If they continue to try to manipulate other gentile communities to act in their interests, they will continue to generate bad will that is not in their collective interest.
It is in their collective interest. Jews have lived in Europe for 2000 without being able to assimilate. They have done so by having numerous rules and conventions that make it difficult to interact with Goyim. For example their food rules make it hard for them to share a meal with Goyim.
They have an exceptionally ethnocentric religion with a strong sense of them and us.
They have been in constant conflict with their host populations. Nothing unites a population like an external enemy.
Israel has some super woke people. It has some of the most fanatical religious people in the middle east. They have people who are genetically largely European and some who are north African and some who are from Persia. They have little to unite them except a common enemy. If Israel had been founded on an island with no enemies it would have torn itself apart by now.
Jews require constant conflict with the outside world and that is what makes their religion so difficult for the rest of us.
This is no different than any other intense religious practice. All religions have an ideological lexicon for distinguishing themselves from the out-group. You have Jews and Gentiles. Muslims and Infidels. Christians and Pagans. Communists and Counter-Revolutionaries. Catholics and Freemasons.
Jews (and I’m referring to the original meaning of the term, the religion of Judaism) are very committed to their beliefs. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody. Plenty of Jews if you’ve ever truly interacted with any and tried inquiring into their beliefs will tell you go to Church and seek God within your own tradition. There’s something of a tradition in Judaism that if someone wants to convert, a Rabbi is supposed to deny them on 3 separate occasions and accept them on their 4th attempt. It isn’t because they’re scrambling to hide the secret Jewish titty bars and glitter from you, and the cage where they sacrifice a virgin down in the catacombs. They want to know through the spirit of your conviction that being turned away isn’t going to stop you from wanting to become a Jew. The religious requirements are heavy, and they want you to understand that. But in Judaism, it also isn’t a requirement that you have to become a Jew to have a share in the world to come. What requirements are incumbent upon you by God depends entirely on which covenant you belong to. Jews belong to the Mosaic covenant, Gentiles belong to the Noahide covenant.
They don’t “require” constant conflict with the outside world.
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