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Assassination again shows Netanyahu’s disregard for US-Israel relations (www.theguardian.com)

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Standing alongside Donald Trump in Florida a week ago, Benjamin Netanyahu was vague on the latest prospect of a ceasefire in the war in Gaza.

“I hope we are going to have a deal. Time will tell,” the Israeli prime minister said, two days after his controversial address to a joint session of the US Congress.

Throughout his three-day visit to the US, Netanyahu was careful to avoid making any commitment to the deal Biden unveiled on 31 May. While the US insisted publicly that the onus was on Hamas to accept the plan, the administration knew it also needed to pin down Netanyahu personally over his reluctance to commit to a permanent ceasefire.

Yet, according to US reports, it now appears that at the very time Netanyahu was publicly speculating about a deal, a remote-controlled bomb had already been smuggled into a guesthouse in Tehran, awaiting its intended target: Ismail Haniyeh, the senior Hamas leader who was assassinated on Wednesday night.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

US is not an ally for Israel, we are just there to be milked, used, and abused. Yet we keep sending them money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

The US is using Israel as a lightning rod for Muslim fundamentalists. They're friendlier to the West than Saudi Arabia and Iran, so it helps keep the region stable in a way that lets western nations keep out of it (for now). The problem is that Bibi is a criminal whose only means of staying out of prison is endless war.

The US government also uses Israel to funnel tax money to American defense contractors by giving Israel millions in foreign aid which they use to buy American weapons. The politicians get paid by the military industrial complex while it employs Americans at low wages.

There's also the Christian nutjobs that believe Israel is part of the end times when their magic carpenter comes back and takes a dump on non-Christians.