What do you think Israel would do to the US if it stopped giving Israel billions a year in aid and stopped defending it against its neighbors?
17 2010-02-22 by [deleted]
What if a non-neoconservative/neoliberal group took control of the US government over the next series of elections and cut Israel loose. Do you think Israel would retaliate somehow?
26 comments
7 geoffreyrobinson 2010-02-22
One of the more horrific rumors is that nukes are placed in various capital cities around the world to bring everything down in the event of political isolation. some article on a website
So better not piss them off!
3 mvlazysusan 2010-02-22
That's two birds w/one stone,,, let's do it!
1 [deleted] 2010-02-22
I like the way you think.
6 disinforeddit 2010-02-22
You forget that neocons are glove and fist with Israel. They both love the rapture, or at least Israel uses their love of the rapture to have them unwittingly fight their wars for them.
You can't get rid of Israel in washington without a complete overhaul of the voting system, and campaign finance combined with an end to corporate lobbying.
5 ScrewDriver 2010-02-22
Never happen, AIPAC owns our Senate.
5 Uncerntropy 2010-02-22
They would Nuke Iran and force the US into WW III.
3 [deleted] 2010-02-22
You're seeing what's happening to Obama and the economy ever since his famous speech in Egypt. You think that's just a coincidence?
3 internuts_tough_gay 2010-02-22
9/11 x 1 000 000 000
2 madsonm 2010-02-22
Why, that would be 911,000,000,000!!!
oh my god
5 [deleted] 2010-02-22
Actually, it would be 818181818.18181818181,,,,,,
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3 Outofmany 2010-02-22
There would be a coup in the US before anyone had a chance to change the system. These people basically have a mystical/spiritual reason for their support of Israel. In actual fact, this crazy Zionism is something that is imposed on Israelis by the US Jews. There is absolutely no way you're going to break this little party up by busting down the front door. Democracy is an illusion.
1 [deleted] 2010-02-22
It'd be a cold day in hell?
3 mvlazysusan 2010-02-22
In other news,,, Washington has 50" of snow. It could happen.
1 Pfmohr2 2010-02-22
Burn.
1 VoodooIdol 2010-02-22
They wouldn't do shit. They're pussies. The only reason they strut around the region like bad asses right now is because the US and England back everything they do.
-1 TheGesus 2010-02-22
Suicide bombings.
-1 [deleted] 2010-02-22
Iran would go after them.
-1 personsaddress 2010-02-22
They would give mexico all their money, and invade us?
-5 zaferk 2010-02-22
$5 billion really aint much
10 [deleted] 2010-02-22
No, but the trillion dollars the US spent fighting Iraq is.
2 phlux 2010-02-22
Not to mention the several other trillion that Dov Zaheim gave Israel
-6 zaferk 2010-02-22
I dont see how that has anything to do with aid to Israel.
10 cojoco 2010-02-22
You're just a teensy weensy bit blind, aren't you?
2 [deleted] 2010-02-22
says the guy who doesn't have $5 billion.
1 destraht 2010-02-22
It is also the availability of different kinds of technology that are not available to non-preferred allies. The US sells nerfed down top of the line weapons to different people. If the US is allowing access to its best technology at any price then it represents a huge advantage.
For example a F-22 can take out 5-10 F-16 planes. If the targetting systems of the F-16 planes are nerfed then basically one F-22 can drain its weapons blowing ship up. Its the difference between one side sitting there and dying and the other side killing unrelentlessly.
1 lexpython 2010-02-22
$5,000,000,000 / 7,500,000 = $666.66 per person, per year. That's equivalent to an AK-47 every year, for every person, including Palestinians.
3 mvlazysusan 2010-02-22
That's two birds w/one stone,,, let's do it!
1 [deleted] 2010-02-22
I like the way you think.