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U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose (www.reuters.com)

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If the US and Israel are completely aligned in foreign policy, what keeps Israel from just becoming treated as another state of the US?

[–] stella@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Israel has more power over the US than states.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its ethnonationalist policies would violate Federal law pretty severely, and then the US is explicitly on the hook for Israel's war crimes, terrorism, assassinations, etc.

[–] kboy101222@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The US isn't on the hook for it's own war crimes, terrorism, or assassinations, so that wouldn't matter

[–] stella@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, "all's fair in love and war" means you can do anything you want if you can get away with it.