(... although my understanding is that, although Israel is informally called "an ally" of the US, strictly speaking it is not one. There is no legal reciprocal agreement between them. It's been suggested that the reason for that might be it would involve formally defining the state of Israel, and that would make expanding the territory to the biblical Euphrates to Nile project more awkward).
IMHO, ally is an outmoded term. The US armed and trained forces in both Ukraine and Iraq, neither of which are or were 'allies'. Obviously, Israel is a special case. One glitch is that although everybody knows that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, and those who've done the research know that some of the concentrated nuclear material came from the US (see Daniel Sheehan and the Karen Silkwood case). The problem for the US is that if it acknowledges this it cannot allow its weapons industry to profit, because its laws prohibit it from exporting weapons to nuclear armed states who are not signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Israel is not.
What other term than 'ally' would one use for the state to which the US has exported more weaponry in the last half a century than any other? (currently at $4 billion per year with special assistance for the Genocide)
Good, succinct summary. Thanks.
(... although my understanding is that, although Israel is informally called "an ally" of the US, strictly speaking it is not one. There is no legal reciprocal agreement between them. It's been suggested that the reason for that might be it would involve formally defining the state of Israel, and that would make expanding the territory to the biblical Euphrates to Nile project more awkward).
You are most welcome.
IMHO, ally is an outmoded term. The US armed and trained forces in both Ukraine and Iraq, neither of which are or were 'allies'. Obviously, Israel is a special case. One glitch is that although everybody knows that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, and those who've done the research know that some of the concentrated nuclear material came from the US (see Daniel Sheehan and the Karen Silkwood case). The problem for the US is that if it acknowledges this it cannot allow its weapons industry to profit, because its laws prohibit it from exporting weapons to nuclear armed states who are not signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Israel is not.
What other term than 'ally' would one use for the state to which the US has exported more weaponry in the last half a century than any other? (currently at $4 billion per year with special assistance for the Genocide)
Yes it is a problem!
Puppet-master?