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To a lot of outsiders it honestly looks like to some extent Israel controls US foreign policy. It's not a good look. Why does the US have to tiptoe so much around this issue? Why does Israel have such leverage? What is this leverage?

I always say, imagine if it was France instead of Israel. Then you see how crazy the situation is.

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I can’t imagine the US wouldn’t support France given a comparable terrorist attack.

A strong West-allied military in the Middle East is extremely valuable.

If France started a war of aggression, the US would also 100% stand with France, especially if it started with France being hit with a terrorist attack. I’m not sure what you are trying to say.

From my layman's perspective, it's because a lot of people in the US just plain support Israel. I think that's because of religious connotations but again I don't really know. I've even seen an Israel flag being flown in the same yard as a Trump 2024 yard sign, here in my tiny northwest Iowa town.

Because critics always say what they don't want but rarely think through what they do.

The very likely case of Palestine replacing Israel would be a rapidly anti-US, anti-Western, anti-Democratic government and a loss of a very valuable port in the middle east due to the, y'know, rapidly anti-US issue.

Also depopulating Israel of Jews would almost certainly result in another Holocaust. Because Hamas - the most likely-to-govern organization for Palestine - has long enshrined Jew murder in its charter.

What a way to reduce the Palestinian resistance to just one organisation! As if there are no murderous settlers being enabled by the state of Israel.

I am assigning the notion of a single entity governing the theoretical nation of Palestine. All current look as if that entity would be Hamas.

What alternative do you have in mind?

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