The United States should sanction Israel due to its actions in Gaza and the West Bank, similar to the sanctions applied to South Africa during apartheid.

“I think Israel's committing a genocide. I think Israel is you know, is an apartheid state. I think it should be sanctioned the way South Africa was. I think that level of pressure should be applied to compel moral behavior.”

Dave Smith argues that the United States is essentially funding the destruction of Gaza and that Israel's actions, including settlement expansion, contribute to global scrutiny of the nation.

“We have financed and and given you the weapons and the diplomatic cover and the literal protection and vetoed the resolutions at the UN. We have protected and propped up Israel. And you have a lot of nerve to turn around and then say that we scrutinize what you do too much.”

United States support for Israel, particularly in providing defensive weaponry, is instrumental in allowing the Israeli government to operate in a rogue manner.

“In my view, those defensive weapons, quote-unquote defensive weapons, have been instrumental in allowing Israel to operate in this, you know, in this rogue manner, um, and to, you know, which has grave implications for the globe, and certainly has grave implications for our own foreign policy.”

Israel is the primary aggressor in its conflicts with neighbors, and the U.S. media obscures this by framing Israeli military actions as self-defense.

“Israel has of course done this repeatedly in Gaza. They're now doing it in Lebanon. In fact, their leaders have promised that they're going to turn Lebanon into Gaza. And they destroyed every building in Gaza. So, uh, so the fascist empire is now moving into Lebanon. And let me guess, American media”

The US-Israel alliance has been detrimental to the United States and is influenced by a lobby that aims to silence critics.

“There is a pretty significant, uh, campaign to destroy the lives of any American who dare question the USIsraeli alliance, which has been incredibly detrimental to our country.”

US foreign policy is excessively influenced by Israel and political donors, leading to actions that are detrimental to American interests.

“And Israel controls our politics through campaign donations at least. And maybe there are other ways that it controls our politics, but there's no debate about it.”

The United States should not be directed by Israeli foreign policy interests.

“We got a foreign country that's dictating American foreign policy on the liberal network, the supposedly liberal network, CNN.”

The United States is effectively occupied by Israeli political influence, which distorts American foreign policy decisions.

“Tell me we're not occupied and being controlled by Israel.”

The United States maintains an unhealthy reliance on Israeli intelligence and allows Israeli officials excessive access to influence its foreign policy decisions.

“So this speaks to a flaw that we have in the American system by letting the Israelis, the foreign government, come in uh and have the access that they do to influence our policy decision.”

The Israel lobby has massive, harmful influence over US foreign policy, which is not driven by strategic or moral interests.

“And the answer of course is because of the power of the lobby. The lobby and this includes people like Alan Dersowitz work overtime to suppress any discourse that's critical of Israel, critical of the USIsraeli relationship or critical of the lobby.”

The Abraham Accords represent a fundamental, successful shift in Middle East diplomacy by decoupling regional peace from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“So the United States accepted this conventional wisdom that had been around for 50 years that until Israel made progress with the Palestinians there could be no progress among any other of the Arab Nations which was uh in many respects counter-attuitive we proved it to be flat out wrong”

Jonathan Conricus claims that Israel provides significant value to US foreign policy in the Middle East and that US support is strategic rather than simply one-sided.

“Israel is like a little aircraft carrier an American unsinkable aircraft carrier that is advancing America's goals in the Middle East and doing most but not if not all of the heavy lifting.”

Supporting the US-Israel relationship is a legitimate political position shared by many Americans.

“I am an American, a loyal American who strongly supports the American Israel relationship the way many Christian Americans do and many Jewish Americans do.”

The Abraham Accords are a significant, unexpected, and historically important breakthrough in Middle East peace.

“the facts seem to me to be clear on the ground that this represents a significant and very unexpected move forward on the Peace front in the Middle East and that's been a problem that has threatened all of us for for 70 years for longer than that on all sorts of fronts”

The partnership between Israel and the United States is uniquely critical, extensive, and essential for the national interests of both nations.

“I like to tell people the US has friends it has allies but it only has one partner. Israel is its own really its only real partner. By that I mean that the level of cooperation and affiliation that we have with each other is much more like a marriage than a bromance.”