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The national interest is really just the collective interests of the citizens of a country, and America has a lot of Jewish citizens. As a more practical matte
by scarab92 3y ago
The national interest is really just the collective interests of the citizens of a country, and America has a lot of Jewish citizens.
As a more practical matter, there is significant amount of technology transfer between Israel and the US, and Israel also is also a friendly and militarily capable country in a region where America doesn’t have many allies.
Also, does America provide much aid to Israel? I don’t think they do.
- int_19h 3y agoIsrael is the single largest recipient of foreign aid from US. Has been that way for many, many years. The national interest should be the collective interests of citizens, you're right. I don't think that what's actually sold to us as "national interest" is that in any meaningful sense, though. But also, those Jewish citizens of US are, well, citizens of US. It's not that it's wrong for them to also have some interests wrt Israel, but why should it be of any concern to the rest of this polity?