This is easily the stupidest comment made on this thread.
You do realize that Israel is not the United States don’t you?
Beyond that, you’ve mentioned on a few occasions “400 million Arabs”, “several hundred million Arabs” and similar phrases.
Er… how many Arabs do you think there are?
The total combined population of all 22 Arab countries(admittedly there are disagreements over how many there are) is roughly 120-140 million people(admittedly this is debatable as well). Furthermore, if Israel ever engages in what has been called “the Masada option” only a tiny number of the Arab nations would be targeted and that would only be once all other options had been exhausted.
Were it up to me, Israel would never have existed, though to be fair neither would Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait or a bunch of other Middle Eastern states, but they are not a real life Bond villain.
Anyway, back to the OP, people have been predicting since at least 1948 that Israel can’t survive, the status quo can’t continue and every single time the people who’ve said that and been certain of that have been left with egg all over their face looking like idiots and almost without exception, have been too ignorant to even realize how foolish they looked.
Were I the OP, I’d recommend rethinking his/her position. People who stare into crystal balls usually wind up with faces filled with glass.
By all means, keep up the pretense before the war has been decided. Threaten, bluster, make shows of force. But this is when the war has been decided. We lost, its over, at that point there’s no good coming from killing scores of people.
Israelis aren’t the people making most of the comments in this thread however. It’s not the Israelis going on in this thread about how they should just try to kill off millions of uninvolved people. This is a mostly US board.
Not 400 million - as I said. That wasn’t my number to begin with.
Me too. I live in California, but I have lots of family and friends in Israel. Sometimes I think people who post in these threads don’t know they’re talking about real people.
Israel nuking specific Arab nations that are overrunning it in a war = justifiable.
Israel nuking other, unrelated, Arab people that have nothing to do with the war = not justifiable.
Again, the notion that the 2.4% is wagging the dog is silly, and goes against the evidence. Why not just admit that there is a considerable amount of support among evangelicals and conservatives?
Disagree. Sometimes, it seems that the actual opinions of US conservatives get lost here, because so few of them post here. They are a very substantial group wielding considerable political power, and by and large they support Israel - more fervently, in fact, than some Jews - who, in America, have a history of identifying with liberal causes.
Try looking at articles concerning the “Christian Right” and “Israel”. You will see that pretty well everyone accepts that they fervently support Israel - the debate is about why.
The notion that the US is growing ever more sympathetic to Muslim concerns, and is likely to do so in the future, seems to fly in the face of reality. If anything, the opposite is the case.
In Canada (where, as I have pointed out, Jews form a tiny minority - 0.8% - even less able to influence politics than in the US), both Liberals and Conservatives support Israel, but with this difference: the Conservative support is often criticised by Liberals as being essentially unconditional, while the Liberal pride themselves on a more nuanced approach.
Neither position has anything to do with “Jewish influence”. The notion is risable.
Yeah, what bugs me the most is that people don’t really seem to think of us as a real country, you know? Even our supporters often see us as some sort of science project or something.
I exchanged email with a Rabbi in New England who supported Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. I pointed out that he was a rabid Republican, Evangelical minister; opposed to increasing our tiny minimum wage; vetoed a bill that would control insurance companies because the bill used the phrase, “Acts of G-d” and believed Israel played a part in the Christian end of days. “I don’t care”, he responded, “as long as he supports Israel.”
I’m no fan of the Christian Right in the US, but I would caution against a cartoon characterization of their motives. Contrary to popular belief around here, they are not driven entirely by millennial concerns when it comes to Israel. See above linked article.