• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    We absolutely do not need Israel for strategic purposes. If anything our ME policy is built around protecting them as much as it’s built around oil producing countries.

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      9 months ago

      “Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.” – John Sheehan, S.J.

      It’s an oversimplification but essentially true. The pissed off middle east we’ve known our whole lives is kind of because of this bullshit