In this latest dispatch from Eli Lake, we read this:
Despite repeated requests going back to 2009, Netanyahu’s government has not agreed to ask the United States for permission or give significant advanced warning of any pending strike.
It's just a useful insight into the contempt the Israeli government has for the government and people of the United States. Israel is prepared to launch a Third World War that would immediately engulf the US and the entire West without so much as a heads-up. That's what Israelis call an "alliance". Which is why they are losing every single ally they once had, and hang on to the US with Christianist apocalypticism and Democratic habit alone.
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