Why does America think every one but israel is a threat?

Question

Could it be the skeletons in their closet whispering in their ear?

Answer 1

Are you suggesting that Israel is a threat or that other nations aren't? Because I think you are right to some degree. Outside of Europe, Israel is the short list of allies you could maybe add Australia,Turkey, and Saudi Arabia and the list gets really small after wards. Much of western paranoia at the government level sparks not from military or terrorism fears, but from economic problems that could develop and snowball from an organized middle east. The 1973 oil embargo started a massive chain reaction that dominates our foreign policy still today. Since we are overly dependent on the OPEC nations to meet our energy demands, and communist nations such as China for trade and financing our debt, a natural fear exist of what would happen if they organized and cut us off? This dependence plays a major role in our foreign policy decision making.

Answer 2

If we degree all the countries you've stated, then the US is the most important probability, see you later because it meddles in different countries' company. yet please God, would Ron Paul change into US president, and then the US will be a peacefull us of a. yet now, I also do not realize why Israel desires the approval of the US if it quite feels it has to attack Iran. I advise, if Israel quite feels threatened by Iran, then i do not see the point in asking another state, especially a state the position Pollard is jailed, about climate Israel is threatened or no longer. Or if Israel would not sense threatened by Iran, then why does Israel play those video games?! And that includes yet another factor of a probability to international peace: the mixture of the US, Israel and Iran (although that mix were truly weakened by Goldstone's record on Israel's present day conflict over the Gaza Strip). so a lengthy way as I undergo in innovations from the info, Goldstone threatened Gen. Djukic & Colonel Krsmanovic (as defined interior the source I convey) with extradition to both Islamic Bosnia or Iran. So Iranian prisons play a function in being a probability to those the US authorities don't like, and it is mixed with the Israeli media preaching hate (it is likewise a actuality i will't see how all and sundry can dispute).

Answer 3

Yeah, during some Israel war the Israels attacked some USA ship in the Med. Sea and killed some sailors.
It costs US taxpayers billions of dollars to buy Israel support. The USA has been attacked but in other countries, Embassies, Marine barracks, the USS Cole, twice the New York Towers.
Not just the USA, Spain, London, Indonesia, and a lot of places I can't remember have been attacked.
The world has cooperated in security against these attacks.
So it's not just America that fears attacks

Answer 4

We have all been brain washed by what the news reports show us. Please. Why do we support Israel??? MONEY. It is not because their plight is a sincere and just one. The give us financial support and we give them arms to smash the human bomb making terrorists. They have taken the Palestinian land and yet the Israelis are calling foul.

For your next question, please ask the well-educated American people when the nation of Israel was founded. I am willing to bet the majority of them do not realize it did not exist until 1948. Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria had been in control of the land (Israel) from around 70 AD until the UN and the US step in and handed it over. Why do some Arab nations hate us?? Let me think. All I know is if the UN or some other nation declared me part of Canada, I would be fairly angry.

Answer 5

Why would you think such a thing.

Oh--because you listen to propaganda from the OTHER SIDE.

American does not think the vast majority of countries in the world are a threat---

However I can name the ones that YOU and America should think are threats.

IRAN, N. Korea, and Venezuela.---(Radical Islamist too)the short term threats.--Not just to the USA-but to their neighbors and the world.

Russia is a midterm threat--the seem to be growing more and more back into their old ways--The ways that ended up with 30 million of them killed by their Government.

China--short term economically---Long term militarily.

We pretty much like everybody else.

Just because we consider some countries threats to us does not make them MORTAL ENEMIES. Of course sometimes it does.

But it is easy to see IRAN as a threat--after all they lied about their NUKE PROGRAM.

They shout "DEATH TO AMERICA" in the streets of their capital city.

N. Korea is just a basket case with a NUTJOB for a leader.---who threatens war when he wants to get attention.

Alqueda--and the other Radical terrorist--Well we have seen what they can do the minute we start ignoring them.

Venezuela ---Well since they are trying to undermine the governments of the nations around them in an attempt to destabilize democratic Governments and supplant them with the LOSER Type Government of Socialism--Well take that for what it is worth.

Russia----will always be have the resources to be a super power--unfortunately only militarily---Economically it keeps imprisoning the people that are successful economcically.

And of course the Chinese--the guys that hack into defense computers--and sale lead painted toys to the worlds children.

Whose military actively invest in foreign business.--Ho could any one object to them.

Answer 6

Most Americans don't regard our friends as threats, only fanatics, and those who support them. Israel has some fanatcs that cause problems, because of which the Palistinian ituation will ever be settled. But all in all, like most nations, Israel is no threat to America.

Answer 7

Yes and no.
Israel is supported by the USA partly for religious and cultural reasons and partly for political ones. Israel has the most powerful military in the region and is pro USA. This provides us with a military base and a powerful friend in an area which we are bound to economically, by oil, but where we are often despised by the population.

I do not agree that the return on our investment is worth it but that is largely due to the second part of your question about our skeletons in the closet.

In the name of supporting our economic interests and our status against the USSR during the Cold Warwe have often sponsored people and movements that we should not have. we have ignored their shortcomings, that's putting it lightly, including those of Israel because we believed it was in our greater interst to do so at the time . These decisions have often come back to bite us.

these other nation-states ARE a threat but not militarily. They threaten the balance of power we have helped establish and sought to maintain in this area and by extension our access to oil.

Perhaps a fundamental rethinking of our Mid-East policy is in order.

I hope this answers your question.

PEACE

Answer 8

Americans in general do not believe that everybody in the world is a threat. Most Americans only view those who blow themselves up in crowded market places and those who ram our buildings with airplanes as threats. Last time I checked, there were people out there that didn't wish to kill innocent people.

Answer 9

I think any country that is still fighting a war from 1000 years ago is a threat. I believe religious nuts are a threat.

Answer 10

By America I assume you mean the american people? I don't think we view any countries as threats...competition yes but threats no...having said that, Iran or N. Korea with a nuclear bomb is rather unsettling....but I think they know who the big dog on the block is.