Israel and the US : A “Master Blaster” in the Global Thunderdome
Saying that America and Israel are “joined at the hip” is the wrong metaphor as it implies partnership and equality — and such is not the case.
The US has been submissive towards Israel since the start
America has been bending the knee to Israel since the earliest days of the Jewish state. In the aftermath of World War II, America inherited much of Britain’s role as a global empire, and a deferential attitude towards Israel was part of that inheritance.
Indeed, one should remember that the Jewish Zionists who established Israel had literally chased the British out of Palestine through a brutal and audacious terror campaign, highlighted by the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946, which killed 91 people including dozens of British citizens. The Zionist militants also bombed the British Embassy in Rome in 1946, and British Army HQ in Vienna in 1947.
The terror campaign subsided only after the formation of the State of Israel in 1948. This apparent “victory” left the Israeli leadership with a very arrogant and dismissive attitude towards their Anglo-Saxon benefactors.
