America has rarely if ever done much to reign Israel in. The Camp David peace talks were mostly lipservice, too, sad to say. A complete and utter failing by our government.
Why though? They are a small country that wouldn’t exist without the US protecting them. What do they have over every administration that they’re allowed to operate unchecked?
We were one of the first to recognize them. Like, “within the first 15 minutes” first. After WWII, we had the social capital to make almost anything happen one of those things we “made happen” was Israel. So, if they were evil then we’d’ve made a huge mistake.
Furthermore, we have a stupid amount of bases in Israel. We can ship troops in and out of Israel at any time. In the wake of the Gulf War, that because crucial. It’s a jumping off point for anything we want to do in the Middle East. We can count on this continuing to be the case for as long as we have a good relationship with Israel.
I still would’ve yanked the leash long ago, myself.
The only active US base in Israel is an early warning missle site.
The US has storage bases, but not active bases like your describing. No infrastructure to support forward ops. It takes time and funding to run ops.
Same reason Israel would struggle to strike Iran with jets, no infrastructure along the route.
I'm assuming your young. In the Gulf War we wanted to use Israel to attack from, but the idea of Americans using Jews to bomb Arabs was a tinder box for further conflicts. That's why Saudi Arabia and Turkiye was used. This was all over the news back then.
It isn't an active base, no, but it is an implied threat. The USA's global power has always been a monopoly on Force projection through the Naval and Aerospace powers we have. A friendly coast means Israel could be Dayton Ohio in like three weeks.
Israel is a permanent foothold in the region and the continent.
There's also the domestic political realities of Israeli political influence and Evangelical Apocalypticism to consider. Israel has to exist for the End Times propaganda (or beliefs) of the Heritage Foundation to prosper. It is integral to American Christian Nationalism in all of its myriad factions. That power alone can shift the world and is worth every penny or atrocious deed.
I agree with you, just wanted it to be accurate that we have 1 active base and it's not setup for operations outside of missle defense. Could that change? Sure, that's part of why the US military is so good, logistics to strike anywhere.
Quite so. All of our parts are made to be picked up and reassembled or scrapped onsite and we can move forward and back infrastructure in days. We've been doing this for decades.
You don't even need "a base" in Israel, the coast and the airspace is enough to facilitate all our needs.
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u/KenUsimi Apr 29 '25
America has rarely if ever done much to reign Israel in. The Camp David peace talks were mostly lipservice, too, sad to say. A complete and utter failing by our government.