Jonathan V. Last
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Yes.
I actually feel very similar to Israel and the Israeli people as I do towards America and the American people in this moment.
In that the American people have chosen an illiberal, anti-democratic regime.
And until the American people rectify that mistake...
America is just doing bad things all the world over.
And I really hope that, for instance, the Europeans and the Canadians resist us and are able to establish global security without us.
Like, I don't know.
Like, the Netanyahu regime has been...
I don't want to call it a criminal regime because I'm not.
Why not?
Not great, but from the perspective of American democracy, the Netanyahu regime has been firmly on the side of Donald Trump.
And again, this is historically bonkers because the way historically foreign policy works is you with your allies always take pains to make sure that you have deep ties to both sides of the aisle because you recognize that the other side will have power at some point.
And so you want to be on good relations with them and you don't take sides between the parties.
You don't do things to try to make one party's life difficult than the others, right?
This is, again, this is just foreign policy 101 all the way up through 2020.
And that is not how they have conducted their foreign policy in Israel.
So they should be kind, necessary, or true.
At least two of those three things, and hopefully all three, right?
The best comments are kind, necessary, and true, but every comment should be at least two of those things.
There was a mega church somewhere.