"Does our alliance with Israel commit an injustice?........"

Via FLC

"... The address last week from Prime Minister Netanyahu seems to have strummed every discordant string of the foreign affairs harp, each making its case for and against the alliance based on its individual fragment of Washington’s original insight. The liberal interventionists point to the shift in global consensus against Israel and tell us that we need to imitate the rest of the world. Anti-Imperialists search for the small gnats of Israeli mistreatments of Palestinians while they swallow the camels of anti-Israeli terrorism from the Palestinians. Neo-cons tell us that Israel ‘deserves’ our support because they are allegedly the only democracy in the Middle East as though the fact that they elect their governors gives them claims on our troops as well as their own. Realpolitikers tell us that Israel is willing to do the dirty work that we Americans are morally forbidden to do.

All of this leaves aside the real questions:  

First, does our alliance with Israel serve our interests?  

Second, does our alliance with Israel commit an injustice? If the answers are “yes” to the former and “no” to the latter, then the alliance should be continued. When either of those answers change, the alliance should be ended, so long as no treaty is violated."

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