I’m simply pointing out where the moderator, who believes Israel could exist without US or another major power’s support, is in disagreement with any serious international policy expert within or outside of Israel. Calling Israel a 51st US state isn’t a big deal in Israel, they know.

Sovereign in name only. Its military and economy are dependent upon the US. This really isn’t controversial.

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oh her campaign is so smart and making all the right decisions, she’s going to win for sure

Trump can’t create more tanks and bombs out of thin air.

Former GOP presidents Bush and Reagan kept Israel from carrying out a genocide, so there’s a precedent for trying the other side of the aisle.

Not enough killed for your taste? The 50k is a massive undercount.

The econ professor is suggesting cutting off aid to encourage settlers to back off, and giving the money to Palestinian refugees. It’s a bit tongue in cheek.

You’re not going to find a serious person who thinks Israel can survive without a world power behind it.

I don’t know what to say. I’m giving you academic consensus from within Israel, and you respond with Netanyahu

LMAO Netanyahu hahaha OK man

What are you talking about? You can’t turn money into tanks, someone with vast natural resources and industry has to sell them to you and that requires a relationship. The main purchaser of Israeli’s tech is the US, which is done to help prop up our colony’s eocnomy.

Please cite an academic or foreign policy expert that says israel survives alone.

pathetic

How many Arabs have you talked to about your theory that they’re stupid? Democrats are literally exterminating them.

Because it’s from one of the bravest reporters on earth.

That’s right, they’re carrying out the genocide with full US support.

man you’re obstinant. Israel selling weapons tech doesn’t mean they can produce the physical bombs, missiles, tanks they need to continue the war let alone defend from a coordinated counterattack.

Benjamin Miller says it best,

"Israel cannot work alone. It needs financial aid as well as backing in the international arena from some major power. China and Russia are certainly not partners and Europe is very critical of Israel these days, and sensitive in the humanitarian field. Australia and Canada are also not a real option, because their tendency towards us is similar to that of Europe.

What does the US provide Israel in terms of foreign aid as well as in the diplomatic arena, which we would have a very difficult time doing without? Firstly, there is the defense aid, which in normal times amounts to $3.8 billion annually, about NIS 14 billion (Israel’s defense budget, without US aid, is NIS 65 billion annually in normal times.) Also on the agenda today is aid totaling $14 billion to support the war, which has not yet been approved by Congress.

Apart from the two aircraft carriers that the US sent here at the start of the war, to deter Iran and Hezbollah, it has also been frequently supplying Israel with artillery and tank shells and as well as bombs for aircraft. “If the US stops aid in the field of armaments,” says Miller, “That’s a huge problem for Israel, because it also needs to stockpile weapons in preparation for a possible war against Hezbollah. In such a case, we will need a huge amount of weapons.”

No less important than the aid that the US gives to Israel, Miller stresses, is in the use it makes for our benefit of the veto it has in the UN Security Council. Thanks to the US, several resolutions regarding a ceasefire in Gaza were thwarted in the last few months alone. “Since October 7, the US has used the veto three times in our favor,” says Miller.

Prior to October 7, it looked like Israel has additional partners in the international arena in China and Russia. Only last June Netanyahu was proud about being invited to visit China by President Xi Jinping.

"That was also another conception that Netanyahu had before October 7 that has been shattered. The conception was that Israel could maneuver between the three great powers - the US, China and Russia - and supposedly benefit from all worlds.

https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-could-israel-manage-without-us-support-1001473884