https://www.yourish.com/2014/04/17/19408 Cutting straight to the point Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.yourish.com/2014/04/17/19408/comment-page-1#comment-50766 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 01:00:36 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=19408#comment-50766 The United States now has a forty-year record of letting down our allies when the chips were down. The Obama Administration, with its penchant for bluffing followed by retreat, is a particularly noxious example of this deplorable habit. Great powers are in the protection business. Their protection is repaid in the coin of political influence. The USA is not a reliable protector, so our clients, and not only Israel, are looking for other ways to safeguard their interests. In Israel’s case, the basic interest is still survival, what with Iran building nukes and radical Muslims panting to carry out jihad to commit genocide on the Jews. Israel has no alternative than to diversify her security relations given the unreliability of the US.

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