I sincerely hope that this time the "line that we refuse to cross with you" is an actual line and not just words because that makes this actually good news. A new open war in the Middle East isn't good for anything except keeping Netanyahu in power via a constant state of conflict and plowing even more money into the arms sector. That last bit is why I have to stop at hopeful, because we've seen bad wars for profit happen before.
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because we’ve seen bad wars for profit happen before
All wars are driven by profit. Always has been, certainly for the last 150 years at least.
So....does that mean we will stop arming them?
They say in the article that theyre not even going to stop defending them.
"We're not going to help them commit their actions, just make sure they don't suffer any consequences from them"
As Israel uses the weapons we provide to them....this is a lie.
Given that Israel have said they won't retaliate again, maybe it's true.
Israel could still go back on their word, though, and that wouldn't be particularly surprising.
What about US weapons?
The U.S. will continue to help Israel defend itself but does not want war, John Kirby, the White House's top national security spokesperson, told ABC's "This Week" program on Sunday
I mean, will Israel use US weapons to take actions against Iran?
We can stipulate that they are for "defensive purposes only". Like we did for Saudi Arabia in Yemen.
And when they violate that agreement will we do anything about it? No, we won't, not with Israel. They're just meaningless platitudes with the Israelis.
(Saudi Arabia killed ~400k yemeni's with our "defensive weapons")
I never said the Saudis followed through with their end of that either. Just that the Israelis would not follow through with that and repercussions wouldn't happen if they didn't.
I believe that is they point they are also making.
My point was you missed my sarcasm.
Israel: America, we are allies, come help us!
America: dafuq you think we should you all those missiles for, jackass? It sure as hell wasn't to exterminate Gazans.