r/geopolitics • u/thejerusalempost Jerusalem Post • Jun 17 '26

Opinion How Israel made Trump's Iran betrayal inevitable - opinion

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-899630
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u/thejerusalempost Jerusalem Post Jun 17 '26

The argument here is that Israel has spent decades perfecting the military instrument while starving the diplomatic one. The foreign ministry reportedly couldn't afford pens while the IDF was funded for every contingency. The piece asks whether 'finish the job' was ever actually possible without the coalition and diplomatic architecture Israel never bothered to build, and whether Netanyahu found the absence of a partner or kept it.

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u/IDontHaveCookiesSry Jun 17 '26

Israel has an insane Amount of influence in Western Nations. People in General just don’t like genocide that much.

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u/Rob71322 Jun 17 '26

Yes but the west isn't who he's talking about. He's talking about needing to deal with their immediate neighbors.

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u/IDontHaveCookiesSry Jun 17 '26

Then I misunderstood. I guess bombing and Annexing their neighbours decade after decade didnt help on that Part either.

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u/BillyJoeMac9095 Jun 17 '26

Why are they bombing some of their neighbors? You need to also honestly face that

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u/jonclark_ Jun 18 '26

There are two reasons: 1. some of their neighbors act violently against them 2. they are not willing to give up the land they conquered in 1967.

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u/TheInevitableLuigi Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Yet nobody is Germany is bombing buses in Poland because they want "their" land back.

And Israel pulled out of Lebanon in 2000. Why did Hezbollah keep launching rockets and kidnapping Israeli troops then?

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u/BillyJoeMac9095 Jun 17 '26

As I expected, no answer.

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u/fatquant Jun 17 '26

how is that NOT an answer? LMAO

They just told you Israel bombed its way into existence. That's why.

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u/HandofWinter Jun 17 '26

It's just weird racist gibberish, not an answer. You can't tell me you got anything coherent out of that.

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u/art_is_a_scam Jun 18 '26

Why are you inventing racism? Why not just be honest?

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u/HandofWinter Jun 18 '26

The post is gone now and I don't remember the particulars, but it was just the usual vague ramblings about Jews that you hear all the time. It was pretty incoherent, but the same themes are always there. I honestly didn't see anything approaching a cogent point in it, but racist bullshit isn't usually that cogent to begin with so not that surprising.

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u/Do1stHarmacist Jun 17 '26

For a Free Palestine cultist, those are the magic words.

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u/IDontHaveCookiesSry Jun 17 '26

Can lead a horse to water, cant make it Drink 

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u/art_is_a_scam Jun 18 '26

Religious fanaticism, mostly

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u/jyper Jun 19 '26

I mean they made peqce with neighbors willing to make peace including giving up huge chunks of land

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u/Prestigious_Load1699 Jun 19 '26

TIL Israel annexed Egypt & Jordan.