“no fruit no orange groves?”
The industrial revolution was a long time ago.
“Ahmed Dawabsheh”
There’s a claim that the firebombing was carried out by a local resident due to a feud between neighbors. Don’t expect MEMO to tell you about it.
As I said, you don’t know about Palestinian violence against those settlers
because your favorite news media don’t tell you about it.
” US foreign policy regarding Israel and the Middle East”
As Joe Sisco — former U.S. Undersecretary of State during the 1970s — bluntly acknowledged to the Israeli author & military expert, Samuel Katz:
“I want to assure you, Mr Katz, that if we were not getting full value for our money, you would not be getting a cent from us.”
It is, in point of fact, very much in America’s national INTEREST to support Israel militarily, and we come off quite well in the arrangement, especially (though by no means solely) by way of the enormous intel value we derive from the deal.
To understand WHY, consider first that…Israel serves as a military proxy for American interests in the Middle East. The US needs that proxy. Without Israel, the US is blind.
Much of US intelligence-gathering in the Middle East is a ‘black hole.’
[Brian Bennett, “CIA intelligence gap hinders counter-terrorism efforts in Syria, Iraq.” L.A. Times, Nov 17, 2014]
Money goes into intelligence, and disappears.
Iran is a “blind spot” for US intelligence services. [Ken Silverstein, “US Reliance on Too Much SIGINT and Too Little Spycraft Is Dangerous and Expensive,” The Observer, Sep 11, 2015]
So are much of Syria, Iraq, and the Palestinian Authority. [Ibid]
That’s where Israel comes in. In a dangerous hotspot, Israel provides the intelligence the US can’t get. As one former US Air Force intelligence chief says, “America’s military defense capability owes more to the Israeli intelligence input than it does to any other single source of intelligence. . .its value is worth more than five C.I.A.s.”
[Tristan Johnston, “Going global: Israel is America’s Aircraft Carrier in the Middle East,” The Runner, Mar 29, 2015]
There’s more but I may have already passed your attention span.