Given that the NSO Group is supported by the Israeli government and their weapons have been used against US civilians, and US-aligned individuals, you would think there would be much heftier consequences.
Sometimes I wonder what's so special about Israel that they keep getting away with everything.
This story does not end well for Israel or the people who live there.
It looks to me that it is correlated with whatever this survey defines as "traditionalist": https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2005/04/15/american-eva...
Traditionalist applies across denominations with different traditions and theology so no idea whether it has a consistent meaning.
There is more to it, not only that but they believe that the Jewish state of Israel is needed for Jesus to return to earth.
This belief comes from Thessalonians 2:1-4
"1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be easily disconcerted or alarmed by any spirit or message or letter seeming to be from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has already come. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed. 4 He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God."
So the "temple" is required for the anti-Christ to arise, and for Jesus to return.
Now as to if that actually means the physical Third Temple of Solomon... this is up for theological debate. Some Church Fathers held that the anti-Christ would indeed arise from a physical Third Temple. While other Church Fathers held that the 3rd Temple in Christianity was technically the Church, and so the anti-Christ would arise from her.
Either way, if you side with the first view there is no qualification for a state to be present in order to rebuild the physical Third Temple.
Protestant Evangelicals in America by and large take the first stance I mentioned, and are pretty stalwart in their belief the State of Israel is the vehicle through which this will be achieved.
For those who want additional information, it is called dispensationalism.
Evangelical beliefs and others start to be more of a political topic, subject to survey? A basis of the practice is that it is done in the open and lawfully, so Church leaders might be fairly plain about what they actually believe, when asked?
The crusades were a reaction to the Arab and Turkish Empires, which by then (between them) invaded at some point (and mostly conquered) Spain, France, southern Italy, most of the Mediterranean, North Africa, Italy, Anatolia, and the Levant, and more.
I had not noticed the Palestinians aggressive expansionist empire.
The legitimisation lies in the alternatives having been (historically) the Soviet Union, and (now) China.
Their death toll, such as it is, is not even a tenth of the incredible casualty rate of the British. It does not need to be said that they're nowhere near as demonised, except in India. The scope and depth of a civilisation's deaths is not actually all that relevant to how much people hate it.
Both sides agree it was an accident.
>Israel apologized for the attack, saying that USS Liberty had been attacked in error after being mistaken for an Egyptian ship.[5] Both the Israeli and United States governments conducted inquiries and issued reports that concluded the attack was a mistake due to Israeli confusion about the ship's identity.[6]
Israel wanted the US involved and conducted a false flag operation:
“Some intelligence and military officials dispute Israel's explanation.[79] Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State at the time of the incident, wrote: I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation. Their sustained attack to disable and sink Liberty precluded an assault by accident or some trigger-happy local commander. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.[80]”
If the attack was due to mistaken identity, wouldn't you expect the Israelis to go all out? I also skimmed the section and there's not much in the way of arguments besides that and "Israel pressured US to admit it was an accident".
They were targeting lifeboats and engaging in other dishonorable behavior we've since seen repeated in Gaza as well. "Going all out" is not warfare, it is sadism in violation of the Geneva Convention.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211111095447/https://www.haare...
What evidence is of this? The article you linked only has an "anonymous source", and hearsay supposedly from a diplomat. If this is the bar for believing that a conspiracy is real, you should probably believe the moon landing is faked as well.
It's ridiculous. But the world we live in is also ridiculous, and the internet has enabled idiots to meet in numbers that have never been possible before.
I'm sure we can come up with a ridiculous conspiracy hypothesis around what we're actually seeing when we think we're seeing the moon. Might need to involve time travel to explain historical records.
But we know why they are special and get away with things that any other country would be in serious shit for. AIPAC does not fuck around. They play to win. And the evangelicals support it because of their belief about the second coming of christ.
its not merely because of a few lobbyists and evangelicals' wacky eschatology
At one point Israel even handled all of the wiretaps for the US.. so if a US government agency needed a wiretap, it would have to go through Israel.
Then there's the active spying..
Stuff like this: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/06/internatio...
And when they get caught, nothing ever happens
e.g. jamal kashoggi (and his partner) had it on his phone when he got murdered by SA.
> Sometimes I wonder what's so special about Israel that they keep getting away with everything.
A doctrine of full spectrum dominance, lack of ethical constraints and aggressive propagandizing would make anyone unstoppable.