Of course. Who else would be providing the requisite military hardware?
The slavish display that we witnessed at Netanyahu's speech in Congress makes it clear that the US is going to back Israel no matter what.
Lol talk about a rhetorical question. Israel just assassinated the political head of Hamas. This should serve as proof that that any talk of a deal or a ceasefire over the past six months has been a sham. This means months or even years of war and thousands of more deaths, which is what Netanyahu wanted all along, while the US argues weakly in support of Israel's "right to defend itself".
If you define "good" as 1) a dangerous escalation that could spark a regional war and 2) effectively killing all hope of a ceasefire in Gaza, then I guess so?
As if there were any doubt about the Israeli government's disregard for human rights, you have members of the Likud party openly saying that anyone held in detention (without trial) in the Sde Teiman concentration camp is a terrorist and therefore "anything can be done to them", including torture and rape.
I assume the US State Department will surely note this as evidence of war crimes and take appropriate action...
Yeah, that was pretty much my point.
Epistemology isn't the determining factor when it comes to human beings doing terrible things to each other on the rationale that it is for "the greater good" or the "natural order".
Nazi Germany, the Khmer Rouge, the Cultural Revolution, European colonialism, etc saw millions dead because one group of people though they had the right to control society and shape it in the way they saw fit.
Agreed, but this isn't unique to religion -- the same can be said of political ideologies.
- Bad Tolkien adaptation.
- Middling fantasy drama with wildly uneven pacing and poor character development.
The speech was certainly written with the Republicans in mind, so i wouldn't be surprising if that was intentional.
So what's in the centre then?
Pretty much. Netanyahu never wanted a ceasefire to begin with. My guess is that any talk of a path to a two-state solution or a ceasefire has just been a stalling tactic used by the US to deal with any criticism of Israel's war crimes. I wonder how long the State Department can keep this charade going, quite honestly.