The division of the "Right" about Israel and the principles of MAGA
There’s a part of the Right (meaning classical-liberals, conservatives, and others), that is staunchly pro-Israel. This group often overlooks questionable actions by the Israeli government.—For reasons like: To avoid giving Israel’s adversaries ammunition, simplifying the fight, maintaining a cognitively easier worldview, and keeping the narrative less complicated.
And there’s a part of the Right that is fully "pro-Palestine," for reasons like: a belief in freedom for the Palestinian people. Or viewing the US-Israel relationship as overly influenced by neoconservative agendas, arguing it’s none of America’s business to be so entangled. Seeing it as a departure from sovereign non-entanglement and American national interests.
Then there are those on the right who fall somewhere in between—neither unquestioningly supporting the Israeli government or ignoring everything questionable it does. Nor aligning fully with "Palestine" or keeping Israel to a higher standard than other nations.
From a MAGA (Make America Great Again) perspective, the stance seems to coalesce around some key principles:
- Prioritize the interests of the citizens and Republic of America.
- Maintain strong relations with Israel as an ally, support it without providing unconditional financial backing or supporting oligarchic-globalism games.
- Criticize the Israeli government—and US institutions and actors—when they engage in globalist maneuvers that undermine the interests, rights and freedoms of the Nation and citizens of America (and in this case the interests of Israel too).
- Shed light (also, not exclusively) on the actions of US and Israeli intelligence agencies in the realm of geopolitics, calling out immoral or illegal behavior. At the same time, not taking sides with other players like Iran or Qatar, condemning their crimes, and in general authoritarianism and dictatorship.
- Keep the US disentangled from neoconservative warfare across the globe.
Under the core principles of MAGA, both rather "Israel-friendly" positions and "foreign policy restraint also regarding the Middle East" have their place. Core is the critique and rejection of (intransparent and wide-ranging) intelligence agencies meddling, globalist-oligarchy politics, and neocon war-games. But being ignorant (deliberately or because of world-view simplification) about everything the Israeli government does, the US intelligence meddling, or about the "Palestinian" "freedom fighters" and terrorists, seems not to be a part of the principles of MAGA.