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Mossad chief Meir Dagan is concerned by the change in US positions and influence on Israel. "There are fewer Israeli assets in the US," he said in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Tuesday. "Israel's importance was greater when there was conflict between the blocs, while this year there has been a decrease (in Israel's importance)."
Dagan gave an overview of the situation to MKs and noted, "If in the 90s the US was a 'global policeman,' a power that could solve conflicts, in the first decade of the millennium the US's power to solve conflicts is limited. The election of (US President Barack) Obama was a declaration that it was adopting a softer approach and did not want to use force to solve conflicts. It has been viewed as weakness and influences Israel's difficulty in diplomatic maneuvers."
Originally posted by Mdv2
Tony Judt, historian and a former employee of the IDF, said this about the future of Israel:
This is a catastrophe for Israel, because Israel has no other friends in the world.
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Like Judt says: 'This is a catastrophe for Israel, because Israel has no other friends in the world.'
Originally posted by Mdv2
reply to post by XenoStuffz
I am curious to know which nations you reckon to be friendly towards Israel and I mean - genuinely. My own country, the Netherlands, has a pro-Israel government but I am sure that they couldn't care less if Israel would be in real trouble.