• zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If the US and Israel are completely aligned in foreign policy, what keeps Israel from just becoming treated as another state of the US?

    • stella
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      1 year ago

      Israel has more power over the US than states.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Its ethnonationalist policies would violate Federal law pretty severely, and then the US is explicitly on the hook for Israel’s war crimes, terrorism, assassinations, etc.

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        1 year ago

        The US isn’t on the hook for it’s own war crimes, terrorism, or assassinations, so that wouldn’t matter

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          Yes, “all’s fair in love and war” means you can do anything you want if you can get away with it.