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Re: Has support for Israel become the new GOP litmus test?
I see your points but I differ. Addressing and solving this issue can remove one less irritant between the West and Muslim Govts.
Each countries interest for lack of a better phase, on a scale. Critical to non critical and the 2 State solution is in there. Not at the top, but still in the US and Wests interests.
The problem is that you're not actually showing, as you probably believe that you do, how this is an American or European interest. But rather what you're doing is emphasizing why Israel receives unfair attention - hypocritical even - among Western citizens and leaders and why it is so wrong that the focus on Israel is always so ridiculously disproportional when hundreds are murdered in places like Syria every bloody day yet people concern themselves about 300 houses that are being built for some Jewish families in some hell hole in the West Bank.
Those who oppose Israel constantly and who are known as "anti-Israeli" 'criticize' Israel due to irrational hatred burning within them towards the Jewish state, how else can you explain the fact that these people believe Israel should receive thousands of rockets on its cities without taking any military action against the terrorists? These are a group of people who believe that Israel has no right to self-defense and falsely claim that it targets civilians for murder. In any other nation's case, US for example, who knows what would be the reply to thousands of rockets that are constantly launched at your civilians, even if you have advanced defense systems that minimize casualties such as those Israel has you have to react with a military operation. So the claim that Israel 'loses support' during such operations when in reality the only thing that happens is that these anti-Israelis are screaming louder is not at all accurate.
Regarding Netanyahu's comments - he didn't reject his support for the two-states solution, all he's done is to say that it's not going to happen during his term because the Palestinians have made it clear that they're not willing to accept his conditions, the ones from 2009 in the speech at the Bar Ilan University where he had stated that he endorses the two-states solution. Even Obama admitted that this is all he said in his recent speech with the leader of Afghanistan. The amount of lies that are surrounding Israel when it comes to "news" is ridiculous, and the amount of people who believe these lies are way more.
So to return to the subject no, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not constitute an interest for either the US or the European nations.
A national interest is something that benefits your nation, not something that you are interested in as a person.
I see your points but I differ. Addressing and solving this issue can remove one less irritant between the West and Muslim Govts.
Each countries interest for lack of a better phase, on a scale. Critical to non critical and the 2 State solution is in there. Not at the top, but still in the US and Wests interests.