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The US does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Israel understands the Russians are now in the same non-recognition boat with the West.
Most of the countries of the world did not take a position. Why single Israel out?
F the US.
Russia has many hostages.
Get over it. The US disses Israel every chance it gets.
And what does the U.S. now propose?
Hopeless and helpless before the Russians; first convincing the Ukranians to give up their military and seek peace with the Russians, only to abandon them to feeble “sanctions,”
Obama and Kerry are hopeless and helpless disasters, reaching back 6 years to the removal of NATO defenses from Poland. Reaching back 6 years to a policy of “we can get along.” Reaching back 3 years to assuring Putin, via Medvedev that “once I am re-elected I can help.”
They can’t solve it now because they have given up so much in the past. Not a penny’s worth of leverage. And here is Sec. Def. Hagel cutting the muscle out of the U.S. Military.
What a bunch of weenies.
Israel is on its own and they know it. They owe the US NOTHING. They hate Obama and he hates them.
Why is it Israel’s concern?
Ukrainians weren’t exactly very kind to Jews during the war.
We won’t even recognize their capital. Why would they help ketchup-face?
Israel doesn’t owe the US crap at this point.
Is this another clever satire?
Who is US black man?
The United States, otherwise known as C.H.A.O.S.
This is already an excellent answer in itself. But there are additional reasons. For example, why should Israel side with the loser against the winner? (Whatever you say, Ukraine lost this round, and is standing ready to lose another, all due to internal strife.)
Israel is a small country. It has to choose partners wisely. Russia is huge, and it is friendly, and about 20% of Israel's population speaks Russian. Only an idiot would start making waves against Russia, and only a patented idiot (or Kerry) would think that this could be effective. Israel clearly sees that the USA wants to use Israel as an expendable tool. There is no reason to become involved. The international arena is not much different from the martial arts arena; the weak get beaten up, the strong rise. The international law is only effective to the extent that the signers are willing to honor. If a treaty becomes inconvenient, the country leaves the treaty. It's a very different world out there.
In addition to all that, Israel is located in a very fluid geography. Israel already controls territories that it acquired in a war. It is surrounded by less than friendly states. Additional territories can be acquired in the future from excessively restless neighbors, or from neighbors that become failed states and threaten Israel. Lines on maps are not permanent; they only represent the current situation on the ground. As the situation changes, so do the lines. Believing in anything else is wishful thinking: borders are established by the people, and they can be changed by the people. For example:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, [...]
OBAMA is neutral about Israel’s very survival. What does he expect?
I don’t blame Israel. Helping Kerry and Obastard gets them nothing but the back of the hand for their efforts.
A wait and see game for what the ever evolving King Amabo will will evolve to.
Tough sh*t for the US; Obama has long since p*ssed away any political capital he may once have had in Israel.