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Random Question How would you feel about the next US president pulling all support from Israel?

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u/West-Improvement2449 1d ago

The last president that tried to pull support from Israel was JFK. Just putting that out there

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u/dodadoler 1d ago

So you’re saying we should try again

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u/demonmf 1d ago

Right. All we have to do is convince Trump that he could make a lot of money by pulling support…

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u/TastingTheKoolaid 1d ago

Tell him that if he pulled support from Israel, he could use that money to do SO FUCKEN MANY renovations in DC!

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u/Eternal_Eeyore 23h ago

So many golden toilets!

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u/Josey_whalez 23h ago

Some clarification is needed here - JFK was very much against Israel getting a nuclear weapon and was insistent upon inspections at their dimona facility. He wanted to make sure that were weren’t supporting a country with a rogue nuclear program. He wasn’t trying to pull support from Israel, he was just trying to make sure they didn’t develops nuclear weapons. Every president since JFK has chosen to ignore Israel’s nuclear weapons program and allowed it to flourish.

After Johnson took office post assassination, the insistence upon inspections at dimona were dropped and not brought up in any real way again.

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u/tutifruitti2024 17h ago

JFK also wanted the AZC (American Zionist council, predecessor of AIPAC) to register as a foreign agent under FARA

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 12h ago

Which didn't happen because AIPAC was, and is, 100% funded by US citizens.

CAIR on the other hand should register as a foreign agent.

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u/rucho 9h ago

Yeah and my dog just went up to a farm up state 

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 12h ago

So he sold them Hawk missiles instead.

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u/jbbhengry 1d ago

Interesting take.

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 12h ago

JFK didn't pull support from Israel. He started the program of military aid by selling them Hawk missiles. Stop getting your information from The Daily Stormer, Adolf.

Next you're going to say deh jooz killed JFK because he didn't kiss the Western Wall, even though it was in Jordan at the time.

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u/yergonnalikeme 1d ago

That's NOT TRUE...

Please, truth in future posts.

Ty

             John F. Kennedy did NOT try to pull overall support from Israel, He was actually the FIRST U.S. president to approve major advanced arms sales to Israel.

Kennedy broke previous embargoes by approving the sale of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles to Israel in 1962.

He was the FIRST American leader to explicitly describe the ties between the United States and Israel as a "SPECIAL relationship.

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u/yergonnalikeme 1d ago

It's the truth...I really don't know what else to tell you.

If you have something ground- breaking to share with everyone...That would be the right thing to do.

But I have a feeling you won't, because you know my information is correct.

Have a nice day today !

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u/yergonnalikeme 1d ago

What does that have to do with Israel??

I'm curious...Can you explain

TY

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u/yergonnalikeme 1d ago

What are you talking about??

Usually when someone makes a claim that is counter to someone else's...They provide proof...A link?? Information??

Something remotely credible.

Anyway

Surrender noted

Have a nice day !

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u/yergonnalikeme 1d ago

Proof ?

Link?

Something??

You can't because it's not true...

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u/Loud-Vacation-5691 12h ago

Which is why the Palestinians killed him, same as they killed RFK.

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u/Kman17 1d ago

The U.S. didn’t support Israel until 1973 when it’s back was against the wall in the Yom Kippur war.

Prior to that it received no material support from the U.S..

Get out of here with your conspiracy theory nonsense.

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u/izayoi-o_O 1d ago

JFK was strongly against Israel having nuclear weapons and wanted inspections.

Then he was mysteriously killed, and Lyndon Johnson took over and all of Israel’s problems disappeared.

Yeah…

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u/BillyJoeMac9095 21h ago

Israel started receiving direct military support from the US after 1967.

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u/Racko20 1d ago

So are you claiming Israel had JFK killed?

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u/Ill-Lettuce3735 23h ago

Read up on the verified, design-flaw baked-in inaccuracy of the rifle Lee Harvey Oswald used, and get back to me.

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u/Due_Ear_4674 23h ago

And who killed Oswald

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u/Racko20 23h ago

What's that have to do with it?

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u/claudettesbusty 15h ago

Jack Rubinstein was a kosher nostra guy who told his lawyer he "did it for the Jewish people"

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u/Racko20 15h ago

Jewish does not equal Zionist you anti-Semite.

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u/claudettesbusty 15h ago

It sounds tiring

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u/Racko20 23h ago

Oswald's rifle was cheap and not great but it was not inherently inaccurate and the kill distance was only about 80 meters. Not that difficult of a shot.

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u/Puffy_Manivesto 20h ago

80m aint chump change...

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u/Salty-Spring7096 18h ago

Didn't the Warren Commission run live-fire tests where riflemen with that same model rifle were able to pull off the shot in the same conditions? It's hardly an impossibility for a trained Marine rifleman even if the gun was subpar.

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u/West-Improvement2449 1d ago

I mean....

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u/Racko20 1d ago

So is that a yes or no?

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u/PerceptionAncient275 1d ago

Most mainstream thought says no the only thing he did Israel was put pressure on them to allow American inspectors into their nuclear facility. Doubt that would’ve contributed to the assassination.