Biden’s past decisions suggest that he could commit U.S. troops on Israel’s behalf
I highly doubt that. Parking an aircraft carrier and flying some jets is one thing. Intercept some rockets, whatever. We have no treaty obligation to defend them with ground forces, though, and they’ve been in quite a lot of wars where we could have if we felt like it, but chose not to.
I simply see nothing in it for Biden or the US. Something would have to be in it for us. Israel isn’t even being threatened with destruction this time, Hezbollah doesn’t have the size or strength and Iran is two countries away.
I simply see nothing in it for Biden or the US.
Geopolitically, no. But don’t underestimate the amount of people that believe Israel must be defended at all costs so the end times may begin and they can go to the ‘Great McDonald’s PlayPlace in the sky’.
Do you really want to drag criticizing belief systems, particularly over the critical importance of a 30km^2 piece of land apparently worth countless lives, into this debacle?
If it’s a motivating factor, yes.
It’s forever amusing that anti-theists exaggerate power and influence of religion.
Israel is a secular country, where the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is popular for the secular reason that a Jewish democracy requires a Jewish super-majority. This is clear all the way back to the writings of David Ben-Grunion the first prime minister of Israel, who was atheist. (the Jewish homeland imagined by early Zionists like Thomas Herzl also envisioned and multi-cultural secular society).
Did you know that an early plan for the Jewish homeland was to be located in Kenya? My point being that Israel’s creation had more to do with Europe needing a (distant) place to send Jewish refugees than it did with stories from the Bible.
I focus on Europe and Israel, because those are the political actors who conceived and colonized a country. The admittedly more religious adversaries of Israel have only reacted to European and Israeli policy, therefore Islam cannot be the “motivating factor”.
