The US provides Israel with $3.8 billion in military aid each year under a 10-year MOU but does not provide mutual defense guarantees.
Look, I get this is a touchy subject to talk about because Russia is painfully obviously such a horrendous aggressor in this case…
BUT!
Our relationship with Israel is bar-none one of the worst things in American history. We financially support an apartheid state that never had a reason to exist other than officials at the end of WWII not knowing what the fuck to do with all the Jewish refugees and shoving them in Israel as an afterthought.
Ukraine is not currently an apartheid state, but endlessly giving a nation money without sometimes questioning if that relationship still makes sense is buffoonery. I agree with the French officials, a four-year MOU is much more reasonable.
I am anti-war, but I also understand that at times war is unavoidable. It should not be our first response, or a “premeditated” response (fuck you George W. Bush, you asswipe), but we shouldn’t shy away from defending ourselves or our allies.
I would like to see Ukraine become an ally, but I think patterning our future relationship with them on one of the worst, most controversial foreign relationships our country has is a bad fucking idea.
At the time, everyone felt terribly for the Jews, and what the Nazis had done to them, and it kind of made sense to give them somewhere to live. Also, nobody thought much about the Palestinians at the time, and that’s terrible. Finally, no one in the right mind thought all of the Jews who settled in Israel would end up treating others in many ways the Nazis treated them.
Obviously, I’m not saying that Israelis are treating Palestinians the same way the Nazis treated them, but the Jews in Israel have certainly turned from victims into the aggressors in a pretty ironic way that nobody could really foresee. Yes, that arrangement that we have with them should obviously change, and I hope it does soon in order to influence how they treat Palestinians.
But when it comes to Ukraine, rather than refuse to enter a similar agreement, what we should do is learn from what happened with Israel, and try to ensure there are better safeguards from that sort of thing happening in the future. Figuring that out is going to be the tricky part. 
You may not fully grasp the situation in Israel, what led to the current state and which role the paaestinians play. Thats ok, just be coutious that you lack tons of context and may draw wrong conclusions.
that never had a reason to exist other than officials at the end of WWII not knowing what the fuck to do with all the Jewish refugees and shoving them in Israel as an afterthought.
Jewish immigration to Palestine and Zionism in general started a fair bit before WWII. The massive wave of Jewish refugees after the Holocaust obviously accelerated things quite a lot, but the mess can arguably be traced back to the Sykes-Picot agreement, when the British that had promised the Hashemite Arabs an Arab state that would include Palestine betrayed them in a deal with France where they instead agreed to carve up the region amongst themselves and to encourage Jewish immigration to Palestine; you can see this vague general plot unfold in the classic Lawrence of Arabia. This outraged the Hashemites, who eventually refused to continue working with the British. The British continued supporting their Arab allies in the east of Arabia, the House of Saud, and the Saudis eventually conquered all of Arabia, leading to the wonderful state of Saudi Arabia today. The other two Hashemite states, ruled by King Hussein’s sons Faisal and Abdullah, were respectively Iraq and Jordan. Iraq fell to a coup, while the family still rules Jordan to this day. If you know literally anything about Jordan at all, you’ll know it’s a politically and culturally much more tolerant and pleasant place than Saudi Arabia.
So, in what’s a massive shock to everyone I’m sure, Britain and France drew some stupid lines after betraying their allies and caused a hundred years of mess that’s still ongoing to this day. What a surprise.
Look, I get this is a touchy subject to talk about because Russia is painfully obviously such a horrendous aggressor in this case…
BUT!
Our relationship with Israel is bar-none one of the worst things in American history. We financially support an apartheid state that never had a reason to exist other than officials at the end of WWII not knowing what the fuck to do with all the Jewish refugees and shoving them in Israel as an afterthought.
Ukraine is not currently an apartheid state, but endlessly giving a nation money without sometimes questioning if that relationship still makes sense is buffoonery. I agree with the French officials, a four-year MOU is much more reasonable.
I am anti-war, but I also understand that at times war is unavoidable. It should not be our first response, or a “premeditated” response (fuck you George W. Bush, you asswipe), but we shouldn’t shy away from defending ourselves or our allies.
I would like to see Ukraine become an ally, but I think patterning our future relationship with them on one of the worst, most controversial foreign relationships our country has is a bad fucking idea.
At the time, everyone felt terribly for the Jews, and what the Nazis had done to them, and it kind of made sense to give them somewhere to live. Also, nobody thought much about the Palestinians at the time, and that’s terrible. Finally, no one in the right mind thought all of the Jews who settled in Israel would end up treating others in many ways the Nazis treated them.
Obviously, I’m not saying that Israelis are treating Palestinians the same way the Nazis treated them, but the Jews in Israel have certainly turned from victims into the aggressors in a pretty ironic way that nobody could really foresee. Yes, that arrangement that we have with them should obviously change, and I hope it does soon in order to influence how they treat Palestinians.
But when it comes to Ukraine, rather than refuse to enter a similar agreement, what we should do is learn from what happened with Israel, and try to ensure there are better safeguards from that sort of thing happening in the future. Figuring that out is going to be the tricky part. 
Agreed, great take. We can’t fix the mistakes of the past, but we can try to learn from them, which is all anyone can really ask for.
You may not fully grasp the situation in Israel, what led to the current state and which role the paaestinians play. Thats ok, just be coutious that you lack tons of context and may draw wrong conclusions.
Care to elaborate? I would like to know more about the situation
There is no context that can justify apartheid.
What you may not fully grasps is that this post makes you come across like a giant, condescending ass.
That’s ok, this is the internet after all.
That’s ok, sometimes there is no better way.
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Jewish immigration to Palestine and Zionism in general started a fair bit before WWII. The massive wave of Jewish refugees after the Holocaust obviously accelerated things quite a lot, but the mess can arguably be traced back to the Sykes-Picot agreement, when the British that had promised the Hashemite Arabs an Arab state that would include Palestine betrayed them in a deal with France where they instead agreed to carve up the region amongst themselves and to encourage Jewish immigration to Palestine; you can see this vague general plot unfold in the classic Lawrence of Arabia. This outraged the Hashemites, who eventually refused to continue working with the British. The British continued supporting their Arab allies in the east of Arabia, the House of Saud, and the Saudis eventually conquered all of Arabia, leading to the wonderful state of Saudi Arabia today. The other two Hashemite states, ruled by King Hussein’s sons Faisal and Abdullah, were respectively Iraq and Jordan. Iraq fell to a coup, while the family still rules Jordan to this day. If you know literally anything about Jordan at all, you’ll know it’s a politically and culturally much more tolerant and pleasant place than Saudi Arabia.
So, in what’s a massive shock to everyone I’m sure, Britain and France drew some stupid lines after betraying their allies and caused a hundred years of mess that’s still ongoing to this day. What a surprise.