Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters celebrated Donald Trump’s election as president, hailing what a leader of the Israeli settler movement called an ally who would support them “unconditionally”. Congratulating Republican Trump, Netanyahu said the former president had made “history’s greatest comeback”.

“Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America,” he said in a statement, which was echoed by the leaders of the hard-right nationalist religious parties in his coalition.

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    8 days ago

    Yep, they know Trump will follow the money. And they definitely have money.

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      Trump doesn’t care about the country’s money, he cares about Trump. He will help them because any friend of Trump is someone worth helping, and Netanyahu is his friend.

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      Do they? Most of their military supplies come straight from us in the form of donations. I don’t believe they’ve ever really spent that much money that we didn’t hand them to give back to the MIC, like a parent giving their kid a dollar to buy an ice cream cone.

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        This is the kid gives the parent a quarter in exchange for a dollar to buy a 75 cent ice cream.

        The kid technically “pays” everytime they get an ice cream, but it’s a perpetual system where the kid never runs out of ice cream and gets to eat all they want for zero cost