In a convoluted post on Israel, the WSJ moans about Democrats voting against Vietnam war funding.
Past Betrayals
Please consider The House Vote on Israel Echoes Past Betrayals
The vote by 103 House Democrats on Wednesday to block U.S. arms to Israel as it fights a multifront war is a shocking abandonment of an ally. It’s a sign of the rapid conquest of the Democratic Party by its anti-Israel wing, and it echoes another betrayal half a century ago—in Vietnam.
The measure to strip Israel of all aid—humanitarian and military, offensive and defensive—was offered by the isolationist Republican Thomas Massie of Kentucky.
All of this echoes the sad denouement of the Vietnam War, when Democrats fought for years to cut off funds for South Vietnam, restricted U.S. aid, and denied its pleas for help in 1975. The North Vietnamese Communist offensive overran the South, sending more than a million “boat people” into the open ocean.
The political momentum is growing against Israel, even if Israelis depose Prime Minister Netanyahu in their October election. This movement thinks Israel is evil while Palestinian terrorists are victims.
Mercy!
Anyone now arguing we should have wasted more money on Vietnam has an empty hole where a brain should be.
It was bad enough to be begging for more Vietnam war funding at the time. It’s truly insane to be arguing that case today.
Israel Strawman
Some of us are against war and meddling, period. And History has proven us right about Vietnam, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and now Iran.
The Editorial board at the WSJ has not found a war it does not support, even Vietnam and Afghanistan after the fact.
As for Israel not violating US laws, what a joke.
Pressure Builds Over Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners
Please note Pressure Builds Over Israel’s Treatment of Palestinian Prisoners
Auditors from Israel’s Ministry of Justice and United Nations agencies later found that detainees were subjected to beatings, particularly during transfers and searches, and starvation. Autopsies of some Palestinians who died in custody showed signs of physical assault, medical neglect and malnutrition. Doctors and rights groups described instances of sexual violence.
In addition to those reports, The Wall Street Journal interviewed a dozen Palestinians released from Israeli prisons since 2024, mostly as part of ceasefire agreements with Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist organization. All said they experienced physical abuse, such as being bound in stress positions and beaten, and severe hunger. Two men said they were sexually assaulted in front of other prisoners.
“Every day, three times a day, someone was being beaten,” said Iyad Omar, 44, one of the men held in Lavi (formerly known as Ketziot), who had been imprisoned since 2002 and was convicted of attempted murder. “This kind of thing never happened before Oct. 7. Back then, we only faced this type of abuse if there was a hunger strike or a riot.”
Physicians for Human Rights Israel, an Israeli medical-advocacy nonprofit that monitors prisons, said it has visited 59 detainees since February, with all reporting insufficient food and medical treatment.
Israel already faces international criticism over its military activities in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as for rising attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank.
Recent Pew Research Center surveys have found deteriorating views of Israel in countries worldwide. This month, it said 62% of U.S. adults viewed the Israeli government unfavorably, up from 43% in 2022.
In May, the U.N. added Israel to a list of countries it says has committed sexual violence in warzones, citing violations, including rapes, of Palestinian detainees. Israel said it “has comprehensively, thoroughly, and unequivocally refuted these allegations” and would end relations with the U.N. secretary-general’s office.
Last month, Israel’s High Court ruled that the ban on Red Cross visits to detainees violates international and Israeli law. The visits haven’t resumed, despite the ruling. Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, had warned in 2024 that prison conditions could violate the U.N. convention against torture and called for greater Red Cross access.
Israel’s High Court also ruled last year that the state failed to meet detainees’ basic needs, after a petition from civil-society groups accused the government of starving them.
In the highest-profile case, five military reservists were indicted over the alleged assault of a Palestinian detainee held without charge in 2024 at the Sde Teiman military detention facility, a camp where some new detainees were taken before being transferred into Israel’s prison system. The indictment said the detainee was blindfolded, shackled and severely beaten, resulting in injuries including seven broken ribs and an inner rectal tear. The reservists denied the allegations.
One doctor who reviewed the patient’s medical records told the Journal in 2024 that the injuries were life-threatening, involved “obvious signs of assault,” and required a blood transfusion and rectal surgery.
The Journal also reviewed postmortem examination reports of a dozen Palestinians who died during detention since the start of the 2023 Gaza war. The Israeli government hasn’t released official autopsies or causes of death for the Palestinian detainees. In some cases, however, it has permitted a physician on behalf of the family to attend the autopsy and provide a postmortem report.
One, viewed by the Journal, involved a 45-year-old man who died in December 2024. The report said he showed signs of physical assault and excessive use of restraints on his wrists and ankles.
Apparently, the editorial board does not even read its own front page articles. Alternatively it does not give a damn.
Q: Israel aside, who is stupid enough to now be moaning we did not spend more money fighting Vietnam?
A: The WSJ editorial board.
I am proud to have been against involvement in Vietnam, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. And I was right every time.
I am prepared to add Greenland to the list.
Spotlight Iran
July 13, 2026: Congratulations to Trump for Spiking the Price of Oil and Bond Yields
Not everyone has powers like this.
July 13, 2026: Trump Says the US Is the Hormuz Strait Guardian, Will Charge 20 Percent Fee
Instead of paying Iran $1 million per ship, Trump wants 20 percent of cargo.
July 14, 2026: Trump Ends 20 Percent Protection Fee Racket, Replaced with Investment Racket
Trump’s investment demand is a fee by another name.
Who are the peace candidates? Who in the media or new podcast world is advocating explicitly for peace? If there are any, what are their recommendations to work towards it?
The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is one, another is antiwar.com
So, that’s one. And Ron Paul is about 100 years old (I’m from Houston, so, knew Ron Paul back before time, haha).
But, I seriously NEVER see any candidate, regardless of party, advocating loudly, and sincerely, for peace. Yet every person I speak with, regardless of party, about my sincere beliefs of the out and out benefits of peace, always agree with me, but, also, kind of mock the idea, and think I’m naive for even thinking about it.
We, as a public, are so brainwashed into hating some “other”, yet, the majority of us actually want peace.
I find it strange that no politician can actually tap into that and make a serious run at something (congress or the presidency)
Perhaps that is because just being for “peace” is so unrealistic and vague?
I think you should be against government. Government is successful organized crime. That may not seem to tell you any more than being “for peace,” but it does focus on the sort of people who get us into unnecessary wars.
You may not be able to eliminate governments any more than you can eliminate wars, but you can at least understand what they are.
As I have said before, they are always made up of soldiers, who live by force and the threat of force (some of them should perhaps be called bravos rather than soldiers); and priests, who live by deception. The religion in the modern West is “education.” (Priests have to have a religion that has some degree of credibility, and since the publication of ‘The Origin of Species,’ Christianity can’t make it any more.)
I have tried multiple times to provide media sources that advocate for peace, but every attempt says “Awaiting for approval”, which is of course grammatically incorrect. Should be “Waiting for approval” or “Awaiting approval”, but AI is not capable of using English properly.
Me.
I will run again next election.
You should publish your platform!
and file to run at the local state level…………for starters. i ran in my 30s for 2 local offices. lost my first one. won my 2nd one. different cities.
Massie. Look what they did to him.
Any peace candidate would be immediately smeared on any possible grounds.
Those who are for war are protected.
But but but … stonks
I pointed this out here as bullish for the refiners back on June 2, 2026. Since then the group is up ~50%+ (E.g. PBF).
“Have you seen how Refined Fuels is setting up? We don’t have the excess capacity for making up Global Outages. Exporting 8% to 14% of Weekly Production.
Will Dumb Donald cut back fuel exports (by tariffs or fiat) as we go through 20-Days/Inventory (likely next month)?
Since it won’t rebalance soon if we don’t get proactive on exports rationing by price could get quite painful. Global refining and slow rebalancing will make fuel (potentially – but I think so) more painful than oil. And painful to the mkts too.
Every premise and reason to be long this trade had only raced higher ever since. Heckle and Jeckle, US and Iran, are busy destroy long term energy assets, and their IMPORTANT CAPACITY all the time now. And will take months, if not years, to repair and rebuild – WHEN AND IF enough stability and financing returns to do so.
This trade is a jackboot right on the throat of the global macro risk right now.
Only difference is Heckle has more brains than Trump:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfqUNcF9sst-K7LAThqdZ6oBhKYAFMzavagmDyV0qc7dGbaxDeAGMnkfA&s=10
WSJ did break the story with Trump’s item in Epstein’s birthday book. With the drawing, remember? Trump sued them for it, and that action went nowhere for him.
WSJ’s opinion and editorials have always been toadying to the most barn-burning fashionable “conservatism” of the day. So it was fiercely market-fundamentalist and globalist before that went semi-out of fashion. But it has some pretty good factual articles and does confront Trump (surprisingly, given Murdoch’s presence), sometimes breaking stories to do so. It has a sober voice sometimes when other media is itself caught up in hysteria in a different direction.
Vietnam weakened us financially and culturally, and in global credibility and soft power too, at historic scale. So too the “Global War on Terror.” Only GHW Bush since the mid-20th century had the brains to do a shooting war right, with suitable restraint. (He managed to juggle Russia too, of course imperfectly but not sparking off existential. global conflict.) But all that bothered stupid people because it was not a movie style total “victory.”
The too-comfortable (and dividend-glutted) are always gung ho.
My father enlisted in the US Navy on the Monday morning after Pearl Harbor. He sailed on several warships. Soon after WW2, every single one of them was cut up and sold as scrap metal.
too bad IKE had to coup the persian elected president and CIA install the shah of iran. thanks ike. most overated potus in my lifetime.
Ike had one eye on the cresting USSR. He was interested in keeping us out of shooting wars and boots on the ground. (Korea got to stalemate at great cost.) Covert actions and nuclear deterrent were his main tools to manage all that.
whatever his reasons, overthrowing elected presidents in foreign countries is never proper or righteous. just downright evil. ike also waited to his last day in office after 8 years to call out the MICC. too late for the damage he did.
Ike was always on the golf course looking like someone’s grandfather.
Dulles.
Israel…9/11…..Epstein…..endless wars
Congress created boat people by not funding a ridiculous government war? I chuckle at the thought of Netanyahu floating towards New York on his homemade vessel. Who is your favorite Israeli boat person?
Wow, that is a heavy image, especially recalling the boat people out of Europe in the 1930’s.
Thank God it is two Mexican Countries in the Soccer Finals!!! Guantanamera!!!
Que?
Exploitation of Mexico’s precious metals after 1492 saved Spain, which funded colonization of Agricultural Argentina. Mexico was the key to Hispanic success, hence Mexican Countries. Que Peso
Another quality is that Dutch and English colonizers brought their families with them to the New World, and bore and cared for their children. The conquistadors left their wives and families in Spain, and had hanky-panky in the new world, and left behind fatherless children This was a unique quality of Mexican Countries. I only wish the mother of all Mexican countries:MEXICO itself made it to the soccer finals. .
The Trump administration is strongly in favor of Argentina, whose government they support.
They hate Spain’s opposition, and very much do not want them to win. I hope they do win, because Trump is scheduled to presenting the trophy to the winner!
Milei is a wall kisser
I hope Spain wins as well.
Nima R. Alkhorshid: IRGC Launches Massive Strike on Iraq— U.S. officers Casualties Reported
get the popcorn ready because things be poppin! Iran Claims Two Oil Tankers Exploded, Caught Fire After Entering Mined Area Near Hormuz
These war mongers are also Control Freaks. Absolutely ZERO respect for letting OTHER SOVERIGN CITIZENS THE SAME RIGHTS THESE CONTROL FREAKS HAVE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
Not to mention it’s not much of a sales pitch to foresably JAM OUTSIDE POLICIES down their throat.
I say lets cut to the chase on the why. We ALL like social confirmation of our thoughts and beliefs. But not all are confident and content if others do not buy your dogma. It’s really that these are often feeble insecure type people acting out the Dunning-Krueger effect. Whch is why DK exists. I’m not saying all of them, but really, trying to force your views on others; others whose consequences have ZERO EFFECT on these control freaks. I think acceptance of others is requisite social maturity.
On that front may I say I have long called racism and discrimination “Intellectual laziness” at it’s core. It’s a simple minded attempt at superiority to think you can [even if just in your mind] think you’re better b/e your not like this or that person. No, you’re just trying to write them off without spending any real effort to get to know them and where they are coming from. Intelectual Laziness. Try acceptance without judgement.
And call off your insatiable Military Industrial Complex.
I wonder why WSJ wouldn’t put an author name to this “article”. Really, I do!
the war street journal has never been anti war. never. anyone who doesn’t read it with that knowledge is a fool. same with the economist. same with the roman news, underwritten by the romanbread company thousands of years ago. empire’s establishment papers always love war. imperial study. anthropology 101
It’s the editorial board. I do not know how big that is.
Let’s see if Grok knows. OK here
Freeman is a real asshole.
I generally like Noonan – Don’t know here position here.
The rest I don’t know.
The article sounds like Freeman
Gigot and Strassel have been commenters on TV political news shows for years, they are typical mainstream/establishment journalists
Add “crack spread” to your economic vocabulary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapVbR7KzTY&t=58s
Hadn’t thought about that since Marion Barry. Hey-ooooooo
Noice!!!
One of the greatest hoaxes being perpetrated by the establishment media is that criticism of Israel’s government and military action is antisemitic.
As I understand it, the Palestinians are also semites… so if you got a dog in a Semite vs Semite fight, you’re antisemitic. Just for those particular semites.
It gets deeper because many of the Israelis are European Jews who migrated after ww2. Some say the majority of Israelis are not semitic people, although that is controversial. The use of dna testing is restricted in some cases in Israel because of this sensitivity.
Israel is dominated by conservative Jews, most of whom migrated either after the Berlin Wall went down or from Jews who immigrated to Israel from other Middle Eastern and North African countries. The Jewish immigrants from North America and Western Europe typically lose Israeli national elections.
Amen, Mish. You could add the grotesque bombing of Serbia under Clinton to your list of stupid US wars. It doesn’t matter which wing of the Uniparty gets elected; the Empire’s war machine is in charge.
Furthermore, how could one discuss this topic and ignore that more than 70,000 Gazans and Lebanese have been murdered by the Israelis–probably closer to 100,000? A majority women and children. Paid for by US taxpayers!
There was a time when the WSJ was a beacon of truth. Now, with Murdoch’s other outlet, it is on the side of evil.
Remind me, what did Serbia do to invoke that? It was just standing around making daisy chains I’m sure.
As usual, Slobodan Milošević was the new Hitler, getting ready to take over the world. But they did not bomb him. Instead thousands of innocent civilians and Serbian civilian infrastructure got bombed. Compared to the Israelis, the Serbians were choirboys, trying to work their way out of being squeezed into the soul-stealing Communism of Yugoslavia. Clinton wanted some kind of war so he could claim to be Churchill.
You mean the Yugoslavia that didn’t exist at the time? You really are a smart one!
Implying that the Bosnian genocide, particularly Srebrenica, was carried out by Milosevic alone, is like saying the Gaza genocide was carried out by Netanyahu alone. Ridiculous, many, many people were involved in these war crimes. While Milosevic was tried by the International Court of Justice, Netanyahu has been indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, but they have so far been unable to capture him and bring him to trial. Trump has put sanctions on the prosecutors, judges, and staff of the ICC because of their efforts.
There were a lot of war crimes, including ones carried out by Croats and the KLN, Serbs were often the victims. The story is not simple, but it is important to remember that the Serbs were traditionally allied to Russia, and everything has always been about getting Russia, at least since 1853 — First “Coalition of the Willing”. American invasion of Russia, who even remembers? [1918-20 Arkhangelsk & Vladivostok]
Dismantling of relatively prosperous and unaligned Yugoslavia was a CIA project for years before the seams cracked and civil war (whose arms?) broke out. Co-incidentally, the largest US military base in Europe in Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, a country the USA conjured into being.
Quatloo, I wasn’t implying that at all. I’m in agreement with all you write. I was ridiculing their calling Milosevic another Hitler, something the Neocons manage to do to justify every war they initiate.
Thanks for the clarification, sorry I misunderstood your post!
The 3 countries that are moving deeper into theocracy are among the least peace-focused
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war.
I’m sorry about the off-topic, but I think it’s important since we talk about inflation elsewhere. Please check out the YT video “Walmart Just Got Caught… People Knew Something was Wrong“. A guy is weighing packaged meat items on the actual scale, and the real weight is less than half (!) of what they are priced for. Unbelievable!
Hopefully Hegseth’s testosterone ‘roid ragers will fix things right up. Just like the Wehrmacht’s meth legions did
I just read about this. Extraordinarily stewpudd.
If matters hadn’t been pushed to this level of military excess, we wouldn’t be having this discussion. We would have used the tools that had been built up over a century of struggle and harsh experience, but Great Leader (and his partner) trashed all that. He does not comprehend a world where some things just have to be patiently managed, not supposedly fixed in five minutes with absolutist plans and slogans, and massive (ineffectual) shock and awe.
“Some of us are against war and meddling, period. And History has proven us right about Vietnam, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and now Iran.”
Please don’t forget about Serbia.
It’s really funny how Serbia keeps coming up from (obviously VERY different) commenters with no explanation of what Serbia was up to.
Here’s a hint: it’s what Israel is doing right now.
If you want to be further sickened by the Vietnam conflict and how corrupt our MIC controlled government is, those that have Netflix should watch “Cover-up”.
A documentary about the My Lai massacre and some other doozy stories that journalist Seymour Hersh broke. I had no idea how evil Westmoreland, McNamara, Nixon and Kissinger were. May they all rot in hell.
Here is the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CxEnECKs9U
Also, the “Fog of War“, a documentary centered on interviewing sata…, I mean, Robert McNamara himself.
What’s funny is that people NOW comprehend the level of lying that happened in the Vietnam War, but they don’t seem to think the EXACT SAME degree of lying is happening now. Any/all damage done to Israel by Iran, for example is HEAVILY censored under severe penalties. The number of US casualties since February 2026 is being totally suppressed. Are we still at 13? LOL. We’ll find out in 20-30 years. Same thing with Ukrainian casualties. The ratio of Ukrainian deaths to Russian deaths is being reversed in the US media and defies all logic.
In April 2019, while speaking about his time heading the CIA, Pompeo publicly stated: “I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. It was like we had entire training courses.”
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” – attributed to CIA Director Wm Casey.
McNamara, from CEO of Ford to Secretary of Defense.
Lee Iacocca saved Chrysler by securing the contract for the M1 Abrams tank, not the mini van.
Eisenhower warned us about the coming of the MIC in his farewell speech and it actually started to happen within a few years.
The big three will probably be making all kinds of drones and cruise missiles pretty soon. Have to restock the pantry.$$$$
Old movie 13 lesson of robert mcnamara was interesting
McNamara repented, later.
i used to see westmoreland walking around downtown charleston SC. nothing like seeing a war criminal waltzing about the sea air, like an actual human being.
I remember the news body counts when I was a kid. Like a sports score. But all kinds of free journalists were wandering all over the war zone, showing things. Lesson learned: retail voters are appalled by actual war. Hence safely “embedded” journalists in the GWOT.
Bravo…War is obviously a racket, and grift and racketeering is what built Wall Street. And Israel almost qualifies as a rogue nation…birds of a feather.
Almost rogue? As rogue as the US, as a matter of fact.
As JD Vance pointed out recently, the US is Israel’s only ally
Almost?
My high school band performed a half time tribute one month after 241 marines, sailors and soldiers were killed in the 1983 Beirut bombing. Normally loud and vocal fans transformed into somber and reverent Americans. I’ll never forget that day.
All for nothing. Reverent Usonians cannot learn anything.
raygun had them in beirut guarding the israelis. his response was to invade grenada as a morale booster. my pal was in grenada at med school. said it was a massacre and a bad joke.
At least he had the sense to get the marines out of Lebanon.
after he kept bombing lebanon for months on end. to safe face for the humiliation of the slaughter of an enemy occupying force slumbering in their barracks. amerikans need geography education. take out a globe and see where we have bases for department of war.
The incidents catalogued here are the tip of the iceberg.
The IDF (and Israeli society) takes pleasure in killing infants while suckling at their mother’s breast. They play the voice of a baby crying from drones to lure children on their balcony to shoot. They purposely have Bingo target practice contests on children, aiming at selected body parts on different days.
They are worse sadists and much less disciplined than the SS.
Only the upsurge of modern media publicity acts as a brake.
Ha Ha
We all know the US & Israel only use defense-only weapons.
Whenever they visit across borders, they are welcomed as liberators by the locals who all pitch in to help.
Just like 1812 and all 400 incidents since then.
Just like the Roman Empire, who for a thousand years, conducted exclusively defensive campaigns.
The goal is not to “win” but to cause destruction.
Whether or not this harms the economy in the US or elsewhere does not concern Trump or Israel in the least.
Israel could have taken a very different path. It could have worked closely with native Palestinians to help them build healthy businesses. They could have invited them to invest in modern industrial plants. They could have helped them build schools, hospitals and all of the modern niceties of life. They could have built a relationship of working together. Instead they built a war and prison civilization where the population no longer sees non-Jews as humans. Sadly, Israel failed.
Nothing is more alien to the modern Israeli state than the Golden Rule. The term “Judea-Christian” is a dishonest propagandistic term. That is, if “Christian” still has meaning.
Very true. “Judeo-Christian” is a term that was created for marketing purposes, to try to portray the two religions as very similar and closely linked
“Anyone who isn’t confused really doesn’t understand the situation.”
― Edward R. Murrow
I was just a kid during the Vietnam war, but my family had a small machining business that did a couple of very high-volume jobs during the war. The made A LOT of money back then for a relatively small enterprise. What a waste of money, raw materials, and labor. And now Trump wants to increase the military budget to $1.5T. Insane. I thought Trump was supposed to be the peace president.
This might surprise you, but he lies… all the time, about everything.
“Anyone now arguing we should have wasted more money on Vietnam has an empty hole where a brain should be.”
The same can be said about funding the NATO war against Russia by the Ukraine, on both sides of the Atlantic.
“And History has proven us right about Vietnam, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and now Iran…”
… and the Ukraine.
5 downvoters (so far) still believe American propaganda. I’ve been watching this low grade aggression against Russia coming since 1991. Like a slow but unstoppable train accident. With the Ukraine, we played “let’s you and him fight”. In 2010 the population of the country was overwhelmingly in favor of maintaining close economic ties with Russia. After a steady diet of Western propaganda we “manufactured consent” (Chomsky) for a war against ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. As Lloyd Austin admitted, the U.S.-instigated war was to “weaken Russia”. And psychopaths like Lindsey Graham gleefully pretended to be “helping” Ukraine while getting them to fight “to the last Ukrainian”.
Started even earlier.
CIA predecessor took over Nazi Galen spy network.
Had ties with the UPA, encouraging separatism.
Hundreds of thousands died in the attempt to stamp out Banderism in the forties and early fifties. Canadians onboarded Ukrainian diaspora, as did the US. The veto for good Ukrainians was if they had SS tattoos it meant they were good (non Communist).
I am a subscriber to the WSJ and have read it, and Barrons, since 1978. Yikes.
While the takeover by Fox has resulted in some weaker reporting and writing, I think it’s usually pretty good.
EXCEPT regarding US spending on war. According to the WSJ, every dollar earned by every American needs to be delivered to the Military-Industrial Complex.
And ALWAYS to fight the last war, or the one before that.
If I hear Kate Bachelder Odell.ramble on and on about a 400 ship Navy and another (or ten) carrier groups, I will lose my mind.
Hey Kate. The government is bankrupt. When the Treasury loses a bid, Guatemala could march on Washington.
You’d think the WSJ was controlled by defense contractors
Wait. What?
“Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
WSJ has been a rag since murdoch bought it. i started reading it at age 12 in 1972. delivered to my door by my old man each afternoon, who worked on wall street.
War spikes government spending which increases Wall Street’s profits. That’s all you need to know about the WSJ.
Calling Israel an “ally” is a bit of a stretch. The US is more of a convenient associate to hide behind. The problem, of course, is the inability to differentiate true anti-semetism (originally not just Jews) with actions applied to the government of Israel.
USA and Israel function in many ways, legally and strategically, as offshore islands for each other. It is a Mutt and Jeff sort of play: point at the other guy while sneaking something from one pocket to another.
Why does Israel need our money anyway? Aren’t we fighting Iran for them on our own dime now? (And yes, the Palestinians are victims. Glad the WSJ asked.)
Add Cuba to your list.
They’ll never let go of the US empire knowingly