Posted on 12/05/2019 4:05:34 PM PST by DoodleDawg
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel has the “full right” to annex the Jordan Valley if it chose to, even as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court warned the country against taking the bold step.
Netanyahu said his proposal to annex the strategic part of the occupied West Bank was discussed during a late-night meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He said they also agreed to move forward with plans for a joint defense treaty.
The longtime Israeli leader, beleaguered by a corruption indictment and political instability at home, is promoting the two initiatives as a justification for staying in office.
The Trump administration has already delivered several landmark victories to Netanyahu, such as recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights. Netanyahu says that thanks to his close relationship with Trump, he is singularly positioned to further promote Israeli interests at this junction before the 2020 U.S. election season heats up.
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Does this mean Israel wants free reign to take over the ME and have the USA taxpayers and military handle (ie pay and die) in the pushback. There was a time I would support that. That was before the foolish US involvement in Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. My vote is wipe our hands of ME.
Seconded, let Israel fight Israeli wars for israel
Sounds like carte blanche for our farmboys to go expire in craphole-istan wars, ad infinitum:
NO THANK YOU.
The land Israel won in defensive wars is all their property.
They can do what they want with it
As an American Jew, I agree. We do not want to be sucked into every war Israel gets involved with, including those that it starts.
“Does this mean Israel wants free reign to take over the ME and have the USA taxpayers and military handle (ie pay and die) in the pushback. “
What a stupid comment.
U.S. troops have never fought for Israel.
Stop repeating LIES promoted by communists, nazis and jihadis.
If the U.S. and Israel do a mutual defense treaty we can all bet Israel will be assisting in the Gulf if U.S. forces are attacked.
Maybe you’re more comfortable with TURKEY being such a great NATO ally,
/sarcasm off
Like I said, I vote to wash our hands of the Middle East and that includes Turkey, and it is one reason I voted for Trump. This is an example of how entangling alliances and the resultant actions of others ends up costing Americans, just as our founding father George Washington warned.
So we should just have no treaties with no allied nations?
/lunacy
[ The land Israel won in defensive wars is all their property.
They can do what they want with it ]
I agree, I also think that the money we send there restrict Israel in ways too.
That money restricts Israel when assholes like Obama are in power.
Obama F**ked with the Israeli election, I can think of 3 billion reasons we heard silence from the Israeli government over that.
[ Like I said, I vote to wash our hands of the Middle East and that includes Turkey, and it is one reason I voted for Trump. This is an example of how entangling alliances and the resultant actions of others ends up costing Americans, just as our founding father George Washington warned. ]
The money we send Israel also acts to limit and restrict what they need to do to keep themselves safe IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY
Globalism and entangling alliances destroys national sovereignty
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