Louise Diamond writes that in evaluating what happened to make a Muslim major apparently take up arms against his fellow soldiers, readers should consider how they’d respond if the US decided to attack Israel, and Jewish American soldiers refused to serve or fight.
"One recurrent theme in the reporting of the Fort Hood shootings is that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan wanted out of a military that was fighting his co-religionists in Afghanistan and Iraq. If, in some upside-down world, the United States were ever to go to war with Israel, many of us would find it easier to understand if Jewish soldiers had difficulty fulfilling their duties, and would likely make some accommodation for those who conscientiously objected."
If things actually came to the point that Israel had so angered Washington that the U.S. was ready to go to war, I am not so sure of that.
It is not generally known but President Eisenhower was so enraged when he heard that Israel had invaded Egypt in 1956 that he was ready to send US troops to intervene on Egypt’s behalf, but changed his mind when he learned that England and France, two of America’s closest allies, were part of the invasion.
More recently, Zbigniew Brzezinski suggested in an interview with the Daily Beast that if Israeli planes dared to fly over Iraqi air space on the way to bomb Iran, that the US air force should shoot them down. The sky didn’t fall down when Jake Tapper reported this on his ABC blog.
