reply to post by loveguy
I'm so uneducated when it comes to Israel and US relations.
First; I thought it was Britain that helped the Israelis form a government in the holy land back after WW11.
The first history I actually heard wasn't until 2002 on a National Public Radio series,
The Mideast: A Century of Conflict A Seven-Part Series
Traces the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
www.npr.org...
Until then I'd never heard of Theodor Herzl, First Zionist Congress, Der Judenstaat, The Balfour Declaration, the 1922 British Mandate, The November
1947 U.N. proposed partitioning. It's a bit informative to read the actual documents, available here:
avalon.law.yale.edu...
The 1922 British Mandate provided "in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood
that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". In other words,
'the indigenous' 92% just live in British controlled Territory while the British Crown helps establish a semiautonomous 'nation' for Jews to
immigrate into from all over the world.
No established borders. In essence an apartheid state. Citizenship for Jews, paternalistic 'protection' of the 'natives' fairly standard British
Empire type colonialism. After 1948, US took it over. Not exactly. Independent "Jewish state" controls everything including paternalism toward
non-Jews, US backs it financially, and protects it from international criticism for what seems to some as crimes against humanity.
Why is the US playing as the appeasers to the Israelis, why don't the US put it's foot down when Israel misbehaves? Or better, why is the US and
Israel so "tight?" I don't get it. Why does Israel get so much help from the US? And, why doesn't Israel even get a slap on the hand when it has
been caught with it's hand in the cookie jar? Such as not obeying regulations as put forth in the OP's thread? Or better, having obtained WMDs
without signing the NNP Treaty?
The basic answer of why is
Religion especially American Dispensationalism, steadily increasing in US political power since 1930s. 'help
Israel=god's blessing, oppose Israeli =god's curse.' Simple as that. Fear of a god of questionable moral standards. Seems a bit UnAmerican to
me.
[edit on 18-3-2010 by pthena]