• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security.”

    ~Alexander Haig

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      11 months ago

      Also the US was trying to get Egypt aligned with them for decades. They kinda gave up on that after a while. Then Israel offers the US Egyptian alignment on a silver platter at Camp David.

      Everyone talks a lot about the Six Days war because it’s one of the most effective military campaigns of all time. But the Yom Kippur war was the war that fundamentally changed Middle East diplomacy. And it changed in favour of the US.

      But that’s too boring, so people prefer antisemitic conspiracy theories straight out of Protocols of the Elders of Zion.