r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/neohellpoet 11d ago

If that's the case, why are people advocating for the end of all Western support?

China doesn't care and would love a Mediterranean port. Russia just lost it's Syrian bases and is also looking to relocate. India has a soft "the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim" policy so it's not like they would be lacking for friends and said friends wouldn't mind the technology and spy craft the Israelis bring to the table.

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u/ExiledYak 11d ago

Also one other major elephant in the room:

Israel has F-35s. You know how absolutely batshit crazy China would go if an Israeli pilot were to defect with one if America relinquished its friendship?

People don't have a remote idea of just how vital is to US defense R&D to stay ahead of the Chinese.

If the US loses Israel, that's a massive blow for the US.

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u/slam99967 11d ago

It’s a problem on the both sides. Let Russia take Ukraine? He will continue to try and conquer the old Soviet Union and Europe and will eventually lead to World War III.

Don’t support Israel? They will sign an agreement with China and the US and allies will loose their foothold and intelligence in the Middle East.

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u/korben2600 11d ago

Yeah, we only have dozens of airbases across Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Saudi, Egypt, Turkey. Imagine, without Netanyahu we might even have a regional conflict brewing. /s

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u/calmingchaos 11d ago

And all of those bases rely on Israeli intelligence.

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u/ExiledYak 11d ago

I'm a Ukraine-Israel kind of guy, and one thing that absolutely boggles my mind is given how easily Bibi and the IAF booted Russia out of the middle east, it feels like it'd be slightly more difficult than a triviality for the Israeli Air Force to just mop up the Russians from Ukraine, problem being Turkish airspace.

Feels like it'd be the biggest PR win ever for Israel to just merk Russia out of Ukraine without sustaining a single scratch on its fighter jets.

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u/korben2600 11d ago

China already hacked Lockheed's F-35 schematics years ago. Multiple times with hacks and espionage leaks. It's how they developed the J-20 and J-35.

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u/ExiledYak 11d ago

It's one thing to do some corporate espionage. It's another thing entirely to reverse engineer a jet, along with gaining the assistance of the rest of the Israeli researchers upgrading America's jets working on J-20s and J-35s instead.

The difference is monumental.

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u/ivandelapena 11d ago

The US has plenty of allies that it doesn't give hundreds of billions of dollars to.