KaiBear said:
sombear said:
Aliceinbubbleland said:
KaiBear said:
When US support ends so does the Jewish state.
Exactly but we know that will never happen.
Wrong. Israel did just fine before we came along to help.
And, more importantly, the will to survive and win.
Israel has needed US aid since the 60's at least.
15 years ago maybe the people of Israel were united and their military far superior to their enemies.
No longer.
Nothing unites a common peoples behind a single purpose than what Hamas did a few weeks ago to Israel. It galvanizes on both sides. Israel is united, and will be so for a generation. Not a single neighbor has a prayer of defeating Israel in combat. Otherwise, they would have already done it. Lebanon? A divided mess. Syria? A divided mess. Jordan? tiny, at peace with Israel. Egypt? At peace with Israel. Hamas? United, but allied with the progressive left. That will not last. The more immediate impact will be to drive enough center-left Democrats/Independents back across to Republicans to form a more traditional American coalition of the center.
Israel's neighbors are playing the long game....just like Saladin did. He could not dominate and drive the Crusaders out of the Holy Lands. He had to campaign, harass, besiege, for years and years, wait for attrition, mistakes, etc....then win a decisive battle. But he lost quite a few along the way.
Israel will survive every one of us posting on this thread.
Hamas screwed the pooch.
They are the new KKK. Touch them and you movement dies.