Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that the Trump administration reports to him every day about the ongoing war in Iran.

In a meeting with Israel’s Cabinet ministers, Netanyahu said, “I spoke yesterday with Vice President JD Vance. He called me from his plane on his way back from Islamabad. He reported to me in detail, as this administration does every day, about the development of the negotiations. In this case, the explosion in the negotiations.”

Netanyahu went on to claim that the U.S. broke off the negotiations because Iran didn’t immediately reopen the Strait of Hormuz and wouldn’t commit to getting rid of all of its enriched uranium.

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[–] 11 points 6 months ago (18 children)

I don't understand why the United States needs Israel so much. why can't they just do regular types of diplomacy like economic trade agreements or whatever? what's the problem?

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Christian Zionism. If Israel is armed to the teeth and encouraged into a bloody, protracted regional war, conservative evangelicals believe it will force Jesus to come back to Earth sooner than God was expected (because apparently an omnipotent and omnipresent deity can be tricked so easily), and thus usher in Armageddon.

    I wish that was a joke. But it's not.

    Of course that's only one reason. The real answer is a complex series of interdependent pieces. Christian Zionism, anti-Muslim paranoia, subconscious guilt over the Holocaust, wanting to appeal to conservative Christian and Jewish voters domestically, and now many politicians on both sides being deep in the pockets of ultra conservative Israeli power brokers via AIPAC.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I think it's 2 thing mainly.

    1. Israel has bribed or blackmailed most major politicians. Look up campaign donations from AIPAC and their related PACs.
    2. A large portion of American Evangelicals genuinely believe that by supporting Israel they are helping to bring about armageddon. You know, gog and magog type shit.
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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    israel is trying garner more support from magats apparently, it seems it not enough. TPUSA is primarly funded by an israeli-backed person, which is the contention that caused his death, because kirk and owens were anti-semites, and it was hurting thier image, Tucker was a problem for aipac because he has a sucha large audience and can easily make them hate israel.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago
    1. A large portion of American Evangelicals genuinely believe that by supporting Israel they are helping to bring about armageddon.

    AKA, death cultists who are eager to kill us all.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    One obvious possibility: Israel is blackmailing American politicians to do what Israel wants. Epstein was an Israeli asset. The kid-diddle island was Israel collecting blackmailable people from politics, finance, entertainment -- all assets they could deploy later.

    The Republican Party's files were hacked like a decade ago...right around the time a whole lot of anti-Trump Republicans (like Sen Graham SC) permanently changed their tune about Trump.

    That's why American can't seem to quit Israel.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    probably the oil and natural gas, they cant have ME countries nationalizing and controlling thier own supply. thats why Iran is the pariah of the ME, because they broke from the US/UK during islamic revoltion as result of the SHAH regime which was installed by the US/UK to keep the supply of oil coming.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    White people close to the oil

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Take a look at the names of every law firm and financial institute in this country.

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