[CorrectingYou]

I believe this was sarcarsm, since American politicians like to always pitch Israel as "America's Greatest Ally", thus making it a common target of sarcasm

[jjtheblunt]

ahhh....that makes sense then.

as i think of it, it's strange that the US supposedly has a separation of religion from state, in the constitution+amendments, yet funds an external country based on a religion. i wonder what fraction of donations to Israel come back as lobbyists paying politicians to fund the next round of donations. there must be datasets recorded somewhere, but i have no idea where to look.

[JumpCrisscross]

> American politicians like to always pitch Israel as "America's Greatest Ally"

In the Middle East. Which is sort of true. (Cairo, Riyadh and Doha aren’t as reliable.)

Our traditional greatest ally is the U.K.

[jjtheblunt]

France and Poland from the revolutionary war, too, perhaps.

[JumpCrisscross]

> France and Poland from the revolutionary war

France is our oldest ally. But it (and Poland) are weaker and have been less reliably at our side than Britain has been.