Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger View Post
Over the course of the last year or so, I've been entertaining ever more negative views of the state of Israel and particularly the Jewish effort in the United States to advance Israel's strategic interests at the expense of America's. I've even allowed some ugly tin-foil-hat type thoughts involving Zionism and disproportionate Jewish power to cross my mind.
Mein Führer, it doesn't help to say all that with a PanzerJäger in your sig!

Jews don't conceive of themselves as part of some global conspiracy. It's the same with Muslims. That's just not how it works. There is such a thing as militant Zionism or Islamism, but these are not the daily reality for most people. It's not what's on their mind this weekend, their being mostly occupied with food, their night out on Saturday, the football game on Sunday. There's paranoia looming if one loses sight of the difference between long-term process and deliberate personal intent.


Having said that, American Jews wage disproportionate power and wealth, and there is a tremendously influential zionist lobby. One gets the impression America is sometimes used as a dumb ox, a beast of burden, by Israel. Americans pay and die on behalf of a country which does not at all behave like a trustworthy ally. Israeli interests have been sold to America as American interests, when they most likely are not.

The British are dying on behalf of America the world over. Costly affairs too. Compare London's long standing requests for US support in maintaining the Falklands, which have been British for two hundred years, with Israeli demands for unwavering American support for the Israeli occupied territories. An Israel which never pays more than lip service to American interests. Something is very off about that, about the difference in treatment America gives its best ally and its worst ally.