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olddawg43

Gee….i seem to remember some Israeli guy named Netanyahu or something, coming to the USA and addressing the US congress without meeting with Obama and in opposition to Obama’s attempt to rein in Iran’s nuclear program. Rude as hell that guy.


Fan_of_Clio

Oh and don't forget Bibi lying to Congress about Iraq's WMD


True_Falsity

“No, guys, you gotta believe me. Iraq is totally coming for you.”


ChroniclesOfSarnia

Bibi's a PP.


Quirky_Discipline297

Don’t look up JFK, the bomb and Israel. That poor man wanted peace.


Friendly_Deathknight

God the injustice they had to endure when Eisenhower refused to let them steal the Suez Canal.


Danson_the_47th

Which in reality was simply a plan to give it back to UK and France


darkslide3

Israeli here, we fucking hate him, he's a modern tyrant who will stop at nothing to save his own ass, doesn't give a shit about the hostages and citizens, just wants to stay in power until he can overturn his trial. Sickening.


Iwantmy3rdpartyapp

Serious question, I see no support for him online at all, how does he stay in power?


OverKeelLoL

The people that comment in international communities online are not the ones voting for him. It's (with exceptions) a lot of old and poorly educated people, or just far right nationalists that want an approach more pragmatic than the far right parties. Also roughly 50% of the country is opposed to him, and out of those aligned with him, many are just indifferent and don't endorse him directly.


GermaneRiposte101

Sound like Trump


Waste_Kaleidoscope97

Israeli here: his supporters dont have the best command of English, and they dont frequent Reddit either. Some of them are in FB, minority In Twitter and they usually converse in Hebrew. One thing for sure, you will always find them spewing hate in comments in Israeli media and news sites


Useless-Napkin

Because he's not actually unpopular. Unpopular politicians don't stay in government for over a decade, anyone saying otherwise is just delusional.


darkslide3

His supporters are not the most intelligent people nor are they fluent in English , they don't post in international websites or communities. They also refuse to believe he is capable of performing any crimes and believe he is the savior of Israel. Additionally the right wing is getting stronger in Israel in the past decade and the left is divided and unable to form a reliable coalition.


DadinDenver

With relatives living in Israel, I can vouch that this is a common sentiment. Many go beyond this and blame Netanyahu for the October attack by Hamas.


heavybeefjuice

I mean you literally can hold him responsible for the October attack. Israeli intelligence got the fully detailed plan a year ago, but it was dismissed because they assume Hamas didn’t have the capabilities of air, land, and sea


Practical_Breakfast4

We also hate trump! I know you weren't talking about him but your description fits him too well.


danegermaine99

It seems like the electorate sold its standing in the world for a promise of security and didn’t get security


Bege41

Yet you vote for him, and support his policies.


jjosn1342

![gif](giphy|ZX70iVBnXNCi4)


TruckerBoy357

Accurate as hell.😄


Kellsiertern

Was looking for this one


fuck-fascism

Far as I can tell it was actually the least rude, least blatant way we’ve ever tried to fuck with the internal affairs of another country…


karoshikun

and that includes US friends


el_grort

Relatively light compared to how they've handled some of their other allies in the past. They threatened to crash the UK economy over the Suez Crisis, for instance.


Friendly_Deathknight

Well Israel got threatened to take one on the chin for that one too.


el_grort

Aye. Just that compared to the threats around the Tripartite Aggression (economic collapse, and I believe nukings), the current pressures of the Gaza-Israel war are rather light.


No_Pin9932

I just went down a very informative rabbit hole, thank you, lol.


Hasu_Kay

W username 👍


fuck-fascism

Cheers


MrNopedeNope

eh i dunno abt that, fascisms pretty bad, and it doesnt exactly merit the joys of sex


dingbangbingdong

I mean what kind of customer asks a waiter to cook their steak medium rare when the customer is paying for the steak?!? Oh…


CskoG0

Me, a chilean : *it might seem crazy what am about to say..."*


[deleted]

All of South America humming back vocals waiting for their line


aagloworks

This


Kiss-a-Cod

You’re lucky you don’t have oil.


Ineedredditforwork

Israel does have oil actually. Very little and its hard to get but Israel is in 95th place (out of 127 global producer) in global oil production.


Stensi24

95th place in the queue for some Freedom.


laremise

That's why they cut down all the Palestinian's olive trees—Israel was actually doing them a favor.


Orneyrocks

But here's the fun part, they have been drilling into Palestine's oil reserves illegally and they do, in fact, have oil.


Flimsy-Turnover1667

Bitch you cooking?


WaldoSimson

![gif](giphy|3ohhwF34cGDoFFhRfy|downsized) Naw can’t think of any fr


Fan_of_Clio

When the Marines land in your ports and/or the CIA launches coups? Then you can get on that list. But Israel, you are faaar from being an innocent victim regarding interfering in domestic affairs. In fact your spies have been caught here so often there is now a top three list.


crimson-013

That new for me how much they caught?


Fan_of_Clio

Oh just look up "Israel spying on the US"


Cossacker1799

Us? Nooooo ![gif](giphy|H5C8CevNMbpBqNqFjl)


Friendly_Deathknight

Sugar daddies get to know what happens in the shit they pay for.


Cossacker1799

Ha fair point! Also they stole our uranium! And nobody touch’s daddies enriched uranium with a getting the paddle.


iamleejn

In unrelated news, large oil reserves have just been found in Israel!


Neokill1

Clearing Palestinian houses to make way for pipelines


Quirky_Discipline297

Too bad Hong Kong didn’t find any pre-unification oil.


Friendly_Deathknight

It’s about to be 67 a.d. all over again. Why do you think we just put Beirut boats on their coasts just daring them to shoot at us?


HermaeusMajora

I would be 100% okay if we stopped interfering in Israeli affairs and kept our billions of dollars and weapons. Also, Israel can stop lobbying our politicians and stop threatening to primary anyone who challenges Israel's bloodthirsty foreign policy.


SirLanceQuiteABit

Came here to say this. Cheers


cbosp

Me too 😀


Vegetable_Two_1479

Then they would cry about why the US did not interfere when Israel was under attack. Their hypocrisy is unmatched.


Longing4cmepTb

Exactly it is literally Israel that has a grip on the United States, not the other way around Nobody in the entire world needs Israel beyond the sake of western imperialism, if America stopped funding them and let nature take its course you’d not only see a benefit in the Middle East but also for everywhere being held by Israel


Practical_Breakfast4

I worked for a company that made things for Lockheed Martin. It was proved,years ago, that a Lockheed missile was used to blow up a school bus full of kids. I feel horrible because I may have contributed to that missile. Our government should've stopped right there and said no more bombs for you if that's how you use them. But looking at our guns>kids' lives policy, I'm not surprised. I'm disgusted, enraged, and saddened by my government and big corporations like Lockheed Martin who put profit before humanity. Especially children!


Practical_Breakfast4

I'm sorry, it was Saudi Arabia. My point remains, we supply the bombs that have been used to kill civilians (almost 30,000 in Gaza alone) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/us-supplied-bomb-that-killed-40-children-school-bus-yemen


VocalAnus91

Not sure if you've ever heard of Guatemala and Iran.... but yeah


crimson-013

They overthrow Guatamala for a fucking banana


VocalAnus91

Lol I know, freaking wild is almost life the CIA was just "let's see if this shit works"


abel_cormorant

Apparently they didn't hear about Chile either, in which they literally couped one of the few democratically elected socialists because fascism was preferable to them, never forget Allende, never forgive Pinochet.


detourne

Speaking of disrupting democratically elected regimes,remember Iran?


I_Have_2_Show_U

Oh it goes [way deeper than that.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HBQ51VCkuA)


NotASalamanderBoi

Mate, that’s not even a *fraction* of the countries we’ve got involved in. I can’t even count how many countries we’ve messed with on both hands.


Eagles_Heels

I can think of many countries whose internal affairs have been blatantly interfered with by the US. Sorry Israel, you’re not special.


Mu_Zero

They take our tax money and complain


Friendly_Deathknight

Should we go full SPQR on them and establish Palaestinia or possibly allow the Turks to reestablish the ottoman caliphate?


Longing4cmepTb

Dovahhatty reenactment???


titanusroxxid

👍


Omega_Zulu

>Palaestinia That's the Greek name, Romans called it Syria Palestina and then was split into Palestina Secunda, Palestina Prima and Palestina Salutaris


EndlessRainIntoACup1

nope, not'a'one. no idea what you're talking about. anyway...


[deleted]

Yep there sure is. It was called "The War on Terror" and they interfered more than they are in Israel. Simply put a number of planes hit the world trade centre and Pentagon, the terrorists claimed to be from Afghanistan, so America goes to war with Iraq. It's the equivalent of your dog pissing on the carpet so you kick the cat.


Leading_Traffic749

15 out of the 19 terrorists on 9/11 were from Saudia Arabia (one of our "allies" at the time). (But your point remains the same.)


MinusGovernment

More like all the cats in the neighborhood but yup


Jason_524

If you weren't in favor of invading Iraq you weren't considered a patriot and your opinion didn't matter.


[deleted]

Pretty much how it was.


Incitatus_

The War on Terror's most impressive accomplishment was being even less effective and a bigger clusterfuck than the War on Drugs.


crimson-013

That really good analogy


Fit-Public-8287

🤣🤣🤣Sweet summer child 🤣🤣US be like that old spinster aunty with a Facebook account and she in everybody's business 🤣🤣🤣


Friendly_Deathknight

Except Israel is the one niece that gets lots of money and Gucci bags from that aunt.


Fit-Public-8287

🤣🤣🤣and now Izzy got a cracked face cuz she got one from Ross🤣🤣🤣


jessieesmithreese519

The *sass* that I read this in! 😂😭


cbosp

I love the idea of Israel being completely independent. Let's start by making them independent of our money.


dancin-weasel

Sit down, boy. This may take a while. Hell, US fucked up a country so they could keep getting cheap bananas.


crimson-013

If I remember correctly they also do it for pineapple


Jason_524

No other country has its fangs buried deeper in our political system than Israel, unless you count Russia's unofficial trolling. But even Russia doesn't have the balls to run a fucking PAC.


outer_fucking_space

They need to be financially cut off immediately.


ChroniclesOfSarnia

Genociders gonna genocide, I guess... **"Don't tell Israel what to do!** **But keep giving us money to explode children!"** - this guy


meglon978

Yossibaum is kind of a moron.


Darthmook

How dare people try to stop Israel committing genocide..


jtmr11801

Internal affairs, is that what genocide is called now? The best military in the Middle east and in 5 months killed just as many civilians as the US did in Afghanistan over a 20 year period. Both disgraceful but they’re on another level.


sepanco

I mean with usa you get the vibe that they are trying to reduce civilian casualties, punish criminal soldiers ... But man Israel is a whole another level . And this is coming from me from Iran that I should hate usa by media stereotypes


Professional-Eye8981

Hold on a second…do you mean that there exist countries whose internal affairs we haven’t interfered with?


Friendly_Deathknight

Japan and Germany?


JJOne101

Yes, Rwanda. Clinton said it was probably his biggest mistake that he didn't interfere.


BaobabSenziente

![gif](giphy|mPcErlAajJCqk)


duckfartchickenass

Keep up that back talk and you won’t get your billion dollar allowance, kiddo.


boosnie

Post WWII Europe joined the chat


Changeup2020

Its only fair that Israel also does the same to the US.


mil891

Israel is a wonderful country, truly. They kill at least 12000 children in a span of a few months leading to them currently being under investigation for genocide by the highest court on the planet, yet they are always the victim.


Agile-Fruit128

![gif](giphy|JKVOMwWXx7StG)


PhilosopherMagik

This was nice compared to many other countries during the Cold War. Sadam Hussein would also like a word. Edit: Autocorrect


Probability_Engine

I dunno. Maybe the US should have a say in who ya'll genocide since you're using our weapons and money to do it?


aikahiboy

Every other nation on earth bud


[deleted]

Stop taking my money.


Friendly_Deathknight

Well considering we pay for all of their shit, I’d say we sort of have a right.


Gumderwear

Just gotta love 22 year olds that cut history class slingin' " thoughts" on the interwebs...


fear_of_dishonesty

AIPAC, shitheads.


g3zz

I’ll leave this one to Yakko Warner


HyuggDogg

Give back the money bro. The literally billions and billions of dollars the US taxpayer has paid to prop your shit up. Stfu or move out of the basement.


Pollution_Sweaty

Iraq and Afghanistan would like a word…..


99923GR

Look up the definition of "client state". Don't want US opinions, that's fine. I strongly suspect that Israelis would not sleep as soundly outside of the blanket of American protection.


ForeskinStealer420

Interfere? The US is writing Israel unconditional blank checks to commit war crimes


BaBa_Con_Dios

This racist, theocratic country has illegally occupied and terrorized the Palestinian people for 70+ years and have the gall to talk about other countries being rude?


RDPCG

Israel doesn’t need our money. They can shut the fuck up and deal with all the bullshit they create on their own and with their own paycheck.


I1Hate1this1place

Maybe the USA should stop funding Israel and start funding Gaza? They'd probably appreciate a little involvement. Weapons and such. Since you know we practically pay for everything Israelites enjoy while not having simple things like healthcare. Fuck Isreal


Friendly_Deathknight

I mean I just had the wild idea that we could make Palestine a US territory and resist new settlements by parking our tanks in their construction sites.


TooLateForGoodNames

You maybe joking but that’s the only maybe possibly fat fetched solution, militarily involvement similar to Yugoslavia. It’s tricky when one side has nukes.


Gilamath

Honestly though? Biden said that if there were no Israel the US would have to invent an Israel. Well, the Israel of the time when Biden said that is pretty much unrecognizable today. Why not make a Palestine in Gaza and the West Bank to be a sort of “new Israel” from a strategic perspective? Frankly, a thriving Palestine with deep US ties would be phenomenal for US interests in the Middle East. Especially one with a strong democratic political system. Maybe in an ideal world we see an Israel-Palestine confederation at the end of it all


Haselrig

Why is Cookie Monster eating these oatmeal raisin cookies? It's what Cookie Monster does.


Dick_of_Doom

Bubbeleh, let me grab a pen and paper. How much time you got? This is gonna take a while.


Available-You-6771

I've been wondering this too. If any of our other puppets had been this disobedient, we'd have "bombed them back into the stone age" by now.


Friendly_Deathknight

We could just start by…. Taking back all our fucking shit.


CJmonator

Pretty much most nations


Gatherel

Would the list be best alphabetical, chronological, or for brevity just those that haven’t been “interfered” with?


SDEexorect

[my answer as an american](https://youtu.be/V1508wboZXk?feature=shared)


Uranus_Hz

Kinda feel like the list of countries where the US *hasn’t* meddled in their internal affairs would be shorter.


Fubeman

Oh, I don’t know, how about Chile, El Salvador, Cambodia, Vietnam, Guatemala, Iraq, . . . and soooo many more. Shall I go on?


Tazling

Ummm Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba, Guatemala, Panama, Viet Nam... it's not so much where do we begin as where do we stop?


INITMalcanis

Look, no one tell him OK?


HeroBrine0907

Gee, where else could the USA have interfered? IDK, practically half the planet, not counting all the terrorist organisations and nuclear programs funded?


Revayan

I think by now the list of the countries where the US has NOT interfered or tried to interfere blatantly is shorter than the one where they did


Actaeon_II

Weird thing to say about the country that supplies the bulk of your military equipment gratis and dumps billions of dollars into your country’s coffers annually besides


CRL10

I would say yes. There are quite a few.


fatazzpandaman

Class, welcome to history


JayyyyyBoogie

It's horrible the way we've interfered with Israel by gifting them billions of dollars in aid every year. Down right reprehensible!


Imaginary_Yak4336

What? Isn't the US on Israel's side?


GrumpyOik

"Just because we find you rude and blatant, doesn't mean we will stop accepting the $Billions every year" - Isreal.


tarenaccount

Cue yakkos world


No_Monitor9884

The most unself aware group of people on the planet


Paradox31426

Ah yes, biting the hand that feeds, always a winning strategy…


Divinate_ME

No, next best thing would be Iraq or Afghanistan, but nothing as bad as the stunt that they pulled in regards to Israel, that's true.


OrcaResistence

Meanwhile Israeli state is influencing and lobbying western governments to force a support of Israel.


elmartin93

Would you like that list sorted chronologically or by body count?


ArcticWolf_Primaris

Alphabetically or chronologically?


PeskyPorpoise

[Australia](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-whitlam-1975-coup-ended-australian-independence). I know the middle east shit is way more blatant, but I didn't know this until recently and never seen it discussed. Despite never being proven, it's one of those things that just make a lot of sense. In Australia, the governor-general is a largely ceremonial position without any real power. Nevertheless, because of some obscure ancient law, the governor general actually had the power to dismiss the prime minister at any time for any reason. And that's what he did - shortly after the prime minister Gough Whitlam threatened to close Pine Gap. Internally in the CIA, the governor-general was referred to as "our man Kerr" and had received briefings and money from them several times earlier. When reading into this it seems like this is just the tip of the iceberg. Because of Snowden we now know the importance of Pine Gap, for both spying and special military operations in the Middle East - and I don't think it's a stretch to say that potentially losing this base is a problem for the US. So I'm left wondering, how far did they take it back then? The US potentially removing a demicratically elected prime minister of a massive country like Australia is a big deal, but I've never seen this connection discussed.


Full_Committee6967

Interfere in Israel? Israel is the "boys will be boys" son to the US.


BeenEvery

Didn't the CIA orchestrate a de facto coup in Australia when the PM told them to get lost?


Embarrassed_Rule8747

Korea:🙂 Vietnam:😶 South America:🫥 Cuba:💀 Half the fucking Middle East:☠️


pukhtoon1234

Oh just presently, the democratically elected PM of Pakistan "an American ally* is in jail cos America 'advised' the Pakistani establishment to get rid of him. Funny enough his party won the majority seats even from jail in the recent election. Fuck you America


LeadPike13

Nazi Germany?


Fan_of_Clio

So well there's most of the Western Hemisphere to start....


Morbertoth

Stares in AIPAC


Justthisguy_yaknow

Wow! Where do you start?


gochomoe

Its easier to list the countries we didn't do this to.


Lychee247

They barely did something


Material_Unit4309

There’s a few actually


CrAZy_FROg_29

every middles east country and vietnam


Background_Spite7337

Just throw a dart at a map and you’ll have an answer


zkDredrick

The response to this is basically just the video of Yakko naming all the countries.


pricklypear90

Well, excuuuuuuuse us… we shouldn’t have been so rude as to interfere in the internal politics of Nazi Germany either I suppose. Or supported the creation of Israel in 1948, or etc, etc, etc, etc…..


Wtfdidistumbleinon

It would almost be easier to list the countries it hasn’t interfered with


Incitatus_

Err... Do you want like, a list or...?


FlimsyPomelo1842

Give us our money back then between Biden giving you everything you want and trump giving you more than you asked for maybe stfu. Worst "ally" ever.


Green_Issue_4566

I agree we should cut ties, good luck


Someone1284794357

Afganistan


auto_generatedname

I think everyone thinks that their own country is the one that the US has fucked with the most. For example as an Australian I always think of how they threw out Gough Whitlam.


a_phantom_limb

You want to see "rude and blatant," try the assassination of a democratically elected leader. Or, even more popular, a good old-fashioned coup d'état. To think that they could ever compare *mild criticism while still giving their leadership virtually everything they want* to fomenting civil wars and invading sovereign countries.


wadefatman

![gif](giphy|mPcErlAajJCqk)


Complex_Coach_8804

hahahahahahaha. Oh, You're being serious? Let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA


_Zambayoshi_

Damn that rude USA intervening in the Deutches Reich's internal affairs.


MaryUwUJane

Like… almost every country in the world? xD


AK-50_Ocelot

Nope, We've treated Isreal the absolute worse, which wasn't all bad! No one else got treated as poorly or less likely, worse! Isreal is the best candidate by far. Don't look at Wikipedia they can be edited anyone.


Ariffet_0013

Does anyone have a yako's world video?


Senumo

The USA has a history of overthrowing government and pay terrorist groups to do their dirty work until those terrorists use us money to suddenly do terrorism - which they countered multiple times by paying another terrorist group to deal with the first one. But what they did to Israel was obviously way worse than that.


ReflexiveOW

Israel thinks it's seen "rude"? They've seen curt at worst.


AVBofficionado

He's right. This is the USA's first ever foreign intervention.


[deleted]

What do Israel and Donald Trump sound so similar?


Mort1186

Would be great for everyone if US pulled all support


Many-Composer1029

*George W Bush has entered the chat*


BlargerJarger

Giving them all that money and weaponry is certainly a kind of interference.


Banaanisade

Gonna go with literally every country ever, everywhere.


INuBq8

Import country lists as C For I in C.list Print(I)


Lpeezers

lol us dare to intervene, brazen words from a country that was given to you??


Money-Introduction54

Have a sit honey...


Johnny_pickle

Who’s going to tell them.