From a real expert, Chris Cappelletti's Task & Purpose, is a realistic assessment of Iran's strike package: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KofROKGMnvU&t=314s
"10,000 missiles"--Iran has only 3000 and used 4% in one night.
"That's a lot of money for just 9m people": Basic math eludes this writer. Israel's GDP: $550bn. Nearly $60k per capita. $3bn = $322.58 per capita.
"dependent on the good will of America": in 1967 Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan and Syria with.....French Mirage jets. Israel is a net exporter of military tech, including to the US. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-ranked-worlds-10th-largest-weapons-exporter-in-past-five-years/
"Israel gets a few things that Americans will never see": Israel had those long before the US-Israel alliance. The correlation between aid to Israel and the US not having basic public goods has to do with the senatorial, gerrymandered rural and neo-confederate stranglehold on US politics and nothing to do with a Jewish state. This is classic socialism of fools, as the German social democrat August Bebel called anti-semitism.
"Iran's 88m people"--who are the most pro Israel people in the Middle East. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/israel-hamas-iran-views/
And with nearly 10x the number of people, Iran's GDP is smaller than Israel's.
Holocaust and "guilt trip"--
US immigration policy: immigration quotas never fully used to allow in refugees.
The book on Canada's policy is entitled "None is Too Many".
The UK: The White Paper limiting Jewish immigration that shut the door to Palestine to Europe's doomed Jews was passed just in time for genocide in 1939.
In any case, Zionists envisioned Israel as a "never at all" solution for Jewish safety, not "never again".
So, yes, the guilt trip is totally justified.
"Israel wouldn't exist without America's need to project power in the region": The US-Israel alliance dates from 1973, 25 years after Israel's creation. The first state to recognize Israel was....the USSR. The State Dept didn't want to vote for the UN Partition Plan, but Truman overrode his own officials.
“The American President Harry Truman emerges from this account not so much as man sticking to his principles as being in a constant war with his own officials. While he got his way on the UN partition vote, he had to settle for de facto recognition of the Jewish state — the USSR has recognised it de jure — the arms embargo and many attempts to weaken Israel. Indeed, as Herf explains, this coolness to Israel was to remain a State Department legacy for the 1950s and 1960s. When the US did decide to supply arms, they were rather old and not strategically significant. It was only after the 1967 war — won in part by the French mirage jet — that US policy began to change. The first serious consignment of US weapons did not arrive until 1972. Such facts are studiously ignored by those who think that Israel was a US Imperial project all along.”
In 1957 Eisenhower forced Israel to withdraw from the conquered Sinai. The correlation between Israel's creation and American "power projection" is a very simple number: zero.
"There are a thousand other places on earth where the Israelis can live."--If you question Jewish sovereignty but not others', you are an anti-semite. If you don’t say the same thing to stateless peoples like the Catalans, Basques, Bretons, Corsicans, Sicilians, Rohingyas, Karens, but single out Jews for this sovereignty exclusion treatment, you are an anti-semite. Sorry, the days of sovereignty Jim Crow, with Jews at the back of the bus, are over forever. Get over it.
If you call for the Jewish state's liquidation 76 years after its people have created and built the most successful Startup Nation in world history, an outpost of rule of law democracy, enterprise, tech wizardry and social welfare in the midst of a governance desert of authoritarian and tribalized failed state kleptocracy, you are doubly anti-semitic.
Call me a Zionist apologist. But Zionism has no more to apologize for than other nationalisms. So I’m not a Zionist apologist, but an unapologetic Zionist. Anti-Zionists always claim they’re not anti-Semitic, that Muslims and Jews got on fine until those racist white, settler colonialist Zionists from Europe came and built a state on stolen land.
This fake history is as big a forgery as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and just as steeped in Jew hatred. It also fits perfectly with these two parts of the widely accepted definition of anti-Semitism formulated by the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance):
“Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.”
Those who brand Zionism as racist and single out Israel as an apartheid ethno-state clearly fit within the sovereignty denial and double standard categories of anti-Semitism. They’re engaging in DARVO: deny, attack and reverse the positions of victim and offender. It’s projection as confession by saying that Jews and Israel merit exclusion from state and nationhood, forever consigned to a sovereignty deprivation ghetto that they’d never force on other nations and ethno-states.
