re: #107 silverdolphin

Netanyahu Attacks Biden: ‘Inconceivable’ to Hold Back Arms Shipments to Israel

The US says there are no delayed shipments. Beyond the one of 1000 pound bombs, all other shipments are going through. Looks like Bibi is lying in order to give the GOP a tool to rile up the US right, just in time for his foray into the halls of Congress, containing many of the very anti-semites that would love to see Israel destroyed (Musk?) If Biden was actually delaying weapons shipments like this, I’d expect he would be saying to to molify his left flank. Heck, even McConnell is out there implying Biden does not care about Israel.

Your reading is America-centric and misses that Netanyahu is part of a social-political project to cultivate reactionary grievance that parallels US reactonary grievance in it’s entitlement: to this view, it is an outrage that any weapon shipment would be withheld because axiomatically the Netanyahu administration is entitled to whatever it demands, to be used as it sees fit without criticism. The bombs must not only be delivered, but their usage praised…exactly as reactionary Americans want to valorize things like drone strikes…because the real sin is to question the cult of action.

The two reactionary grievances speak to one another because they hold a common cause—their own total entitlement, to the point that their national fellows are not truly “American” or “Israeli”—that has been building over decades of internal myth-making about stabs in the back and stolen patrimony…

re: #109 silverdolphin

‘Lebanon, Part of the Promised Land’: Israel’s Messianic Right Wing Targets New Territory for Settlements

The same groups that first eyed settlements in the West Bank in the 70s is now looking to expand Israel into Lebanon. They succeeded with the former so I would not be surprised to begin hearing about the need for the latter.

(since you added this since I started this post)…case in point.