r/InternationalNews • u/Horus_walking • Oct 01 '24

Opinion/Analysis Why America is looking increasingly powerless as Israel’s war expands - The pattern of American impotency and Israeli defiance has played repeatedly since October 7

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/30/politics/america-israel-lebanon-war-analysis/index.html
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u/PlinyToTrajan Oct 01 '24

The Israel Lobby has overwhelmed America's political system, focusing immense resources on determining the policy outcome when it comes to this specific, narrow issue (because it is narrow in the context of all the issues facing the U.S. as a whole). The ordinary American citizen never stood a chance at having genuine, effective political involvement on this issue.

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u/Ancient-Watch-1191 Oct 01 '24

The pattern of feigned American impotency fits the Biden administration very well, in the strive of the self declared Zionist sitting at the helm of it, to realize his longstanding Zionist project of the Greater Israel.

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u/PlinyToTrajan Oct 01 '24

There's just no natural reason why a descendant of Irish immigrants who grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania should turn into an ardent Zionist. In my view, the elevation of Biden to high office in the context of his bizarre Zionism is no accident.