Although apparently composed on July 9 or July 10, the “Editorial Note” of the Jerusalem Post entitled “The U.S.-Israel alliance … must become a partnership” is still on the front page of the newspaper’s website. It’s line, is that the United States “gets” great benefits from what a friend of the editorial writer calls “MOP,” memorandum of partnership. What are these benefits? They are spelled out in a section called “What America Gets.”
The “biggest” is that, allegedly, American troops don’t have to defend Israel, as in Europe. But with Israel fighting offensive, aggressive, and unprovoked wars, as now, just what are all those U.S. naval assets and U.S. marines and sailors doing there?
Next: President Trump can copy his space war fantasy “Golden Dome” system from Israel’s “Iron Dome.” But that Iron Dome has been failing to defend Israel against Yemeni, Iranian, and some Hezbollah attacks, all of them provoked by Israeli invasions.
The next one, artificial intelligence, virtually answers itself: “AI-enabled warfare is the uncomfortable one. Israel’s battlefield use of decision-support and digital command systems raises hard legal and moral questions, and it should. But that is exactly why the experience matters to the Pentagon…”(!)
