I'm inclined to believe in Hanlon's razor, so I would be agreeable to the notion that Bibi is just an idiot who blundered his way into an unprecedented gaffe rather than any kind of master manipulator and certainly he is far too tactless to represent any kind of conspiracy against or direct security risk to the United States vis-a-vis its politics. I'm fully cognizant that AIPAC, much like the NRA, has a much bigger shadow than it does actual clout.
Whatever Bibi's motivations for doing the things he does though, what he has managed to achieve through his behavior and policies is to force me, at least, to look back over Israeli conduct with something of a jaundiced eye. I do not like the pattern of what I see, and I don't like the look of where things appear to be going. I'm neither pro-Hamas nor anti-Israel. But likewise I could no longer be called casually anti-Hamas and pro-Israel. I do not take our alliance for granted and I do not effortlessly extend the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Israel is going to have to work to regain its credibility with me, not that I matter. Until it does though, I'm going to take the piss out of the things they are, frankly, cocking up, because public backlash is the only practicable way I currently see of getting them off the path they're on.
link 1. except the python-3 that israel sold had any us components switched out for israeli built and designed ones.
And it's still a capability and technology transfer of hardware near or de facto equivalent to what the US fields, often developed in loose collaboration with the US at those R&D facilities you mentioned so many posts ago. Just because these doesn't use US parts doesn't mean it's necessarily A-OK to wantonly sell them. I would be just as upset if Japan sold the Mitsubishi F-2 to North Korea for some reason, even if it isn't a 1:1 copy of the F-16 and 60% of it is made in Japan and it's technically obsolete. I wouldn't approve if it was 100% made in Japan. Israel is of course not alone in this given, say, French sale of hardware to Saddam prior to the Gulf War and their resistance to divulging the capabilities of said platforms even after reentering NATO and joining the Coalition, but the fact that Israel repeatedly has to get to a point where the US tells it "No, don't sell those things," is by itself kinda stupid even if they agree not to, let alone when they do and write it off as an indigenous copy.
It's not exactly a secret that the US and the PRC are sizing one another up if not on a collision course, and that Chinese acquisitions of defense hardware, hook or crook, are done with counterbalancing the US in mind. That has been evident since at least the turn of the century. Israel should have a reasonable expectation that selling things to the PRC will irritate the US. They don't seem to have internalized that. Now one can ask: should the US dictate arms sales of its allies to potential enemies even when they don't directly involve American technology? Given the diffusion of arms suppliers, the overwhelming American funding defense R&D in the West, and whom the buyers tend to be aiming that technology against, I don't think it's unreasonable to complain when American allies sell or think of selling defense technology to America's would-be rivals even if it isn't stamped Made in U.S.A.
The Europeans would absolutely be doing it too if they could. Sure. And it would be just as sketchy in my opinion.
which is literally "jews sold vital security secrets to the bolsheviks" with the words swapped out
Having reviewed this, I'm also just going to directly say I was entirely unaware this was ever an actual Nazi talking point, considering the transparent stupidity of it given they... you know, more or less entirely rebuilt both the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht within the Soviet Union, with Soviet assistance. I can understand how my remarks would look like a dog whistle in that context. Ignorance sucks. I still stand by what I say in the above paragraphs.