The next step, where we stop supporting Israel militarily, is a broken alliance.
An alliance goes both ways. The Israeli government giving the US government the middle finger and ignoring their reasonable requests does not make for a good alliance. As far as I'm concerned, the alliance has already been broken by the Israeli side first.
It would be a disaster both home and abroad.
It would be a disaster for Israel, not the US. They should do well to remember that the next time they try to humiliate a Democratic US President.
Israel now finds itself in a three front war where it needs to go on the offense. Let's see how that goes.
The Netanyahu boosters on this subreddit are cheering on a strategy that Israel's own military did not endorse. Israeli military has been warning about munitions and manpower shortages since the summer, and has been advocating for a long-term ceasefire with Hamas so they can pivot to Hezbollah, and not to fight a 2-front war simultaneously.
The military won't openly defy a commander in chief, but the IDF has been repeatedly stressing that it's a limited and targeted operation. They clearly have worries about it expanding out of their control.
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u/Daddy_Macron Emily Oster Oct 08 '24
An alliance goes both ways. The Israeli government giving the US government the middle finger and ignoring their reasonable requests does not make for a good alliance. As far as I'm concerned, the alliance has already been broken by the Israeli side first.
It would be a disaster for Israel, not the US. They should do well to remember that the next time they try to humiliate a Democratic US President.