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What does Israel need America or America's hard earned tax dollars for?
Israel does WTH it wants without any regard for America!
If Israel doesn't like the growing opinion of Americans against Israel, Israel should stop panhandling our money!
The religious right in this country has such a pervasive influence on United States foreign policy that it has somehow morphed itself with Israel, and both use the other to advance their aims, the Christians with the worldview of speeding the world toward a Rapture/Armageddon, and the Jews with lots of U.S. taxdollars and close cooperation in the development of weapons and other instruments of violence to maintain their grip and control over parts of occupied Palestine.
Sadly, control means bombing it, surrounding it with barbed wire, and terrorizing it.
Israel used an attempted naval blockade as the casus belli for launching the Six-Day War in 1967--when the shoe was on the other foot.
As for international law. Israel has been in continuing violation of it since its refusal, in 1949, to honor UN Resolution 194 on the repatriation of refugees. Add that to its refusal to obey UN Res 242, 338, and so on, but of course any excuses they give for that are automatically good ones, aren't they?
And why do we need to basically subsidize them at taxpayers' expense? I thought you were against "socialism."
There are plenty of Americans who are not "behind Israel" - and yes, they are still Americans.
That is the Neo-Conservative way. They are willing to fund schools, roads, and write welfare checks as long as it is for Israelis, Iraqis, Afghans, and pretty much everyone who isn't an American...heck in 2007 Bush-McCain were even pushing for some form of illegal Amnesty.
If the Palestinian Arabs had agreed to the UN Partition Plan of 1947 (which called for the creation of 2 states in the area - one Arab & one Jewish) then also this might have been avoided to begin with.
Nobody on earth would've agreed to being given 45% of their own country--especially a 70% majority.
If what was done to the Palestinians had been done to Americans, we'd make Hezbollah look like kittens by comparison.
Nobody on earth would've agreed to being given 45% of their own country--especially a 70% majority.
If what was done to the Palestinians had been done to Americans, we'd make Hezbollah look like kittens by comparison.
There has never been a country called Palestine at any time in history.
But there was a country called Israel if you check the Bible/Old Testament.
As for the Americans, you have to remember there were Indian/Native American tribes living in the land when the first European settlers came.
There has never been a country called Palestine at any time in history.
But there was a country called Israel if you check the Bible/Old Testament.
As for the Americans, you have to remember there were Indian/Native American tribes living in the land when the first European settlers came.
First of all its irrelevant what the geography was 2000 years ago unless you are proposing giving France back to the Celts...On top of that maybe you should crack that Bible again. I seem to remember a country called Philistia in there. When the Romans came and conquered that region they called Philistia...Palestina and if you want to stick to the they were there first argument, despite its ridiculousness, the Philistines were there first.
Israel is well within their right to board and search/confiscate weapons. We all know now that if this flotilla were serious about sending aid to gaza, they would have taken the route of least conflict, but they just followed the cue of the obama administration, whose actions and behavior toward Israel have given the rest of the world the go-ahead to attack her.
Yes, there is little doubt that nations hostile to Israel are embolden by obama's apparent disdain for an ally, they see his tacit approval as an opportunity to create an international incident, to knock Israel down a peg or two, too force her to ease the blockade and give ground on other issue.
The above gives Israel every right to protect her borders and citizens in any way they see fit.
I still cannot fathom how the Left can so readily side with terrorist organizations like hamas and hezbollah.
Nor can I. The Jews have learned from the past and have said never again. Somehow people have curiously forgotten not only the horror of what Germany did to them but also the fact that they are surrounded by countries who have stated publically and often that one of their main purposes in life is to wipe Israel off the map. They have forgotten the 6 day war when Israel was attacked by 5 countries at once. They have forgotten the hundreds and hundreds of attacks upon Israel that have taken place by the terrorists. We aren't expected to ignore terrorist attacks on our country but somehow Israel is suppose to ignore them and allow them to continue. I find it sad that so many in this country will excuse those who want both our own destruction and the destruction of Israel and instead blame the one country in the region that has always been our friend.
Nor can I. The Jews have learned from the past and have said never again. Somehow people have curiously forgotten not only the horror of what Germany did to them but also the fact that they are surrounded by countries who have stated publically and often that one of their main purposes in life is to wipe Israel off the map. They have forgotten the 6 day war when Israel was attacked by 5 countries at once. They have forgotten the hundreds and hundreds of attacks upon Israel that have taken place by the terrorists. We aren't expected to ignore terrorist attacks on our country but somehow Israel is suppose to ignore them and allow them to continue. I find it sad that so many in this country will excuse those who want both our own destruction and the destruction of Israel and instead blame the one country in the region that has always been our friend.
But see, the problem is that the Left has been taken in by the propaganda of the anti-Jew faction around the world.
To them, Israel doesn't really belong to Israel, it belongs to the palestinians, even though the Jews have been there ALWAYS. That way, it's easy to attack Israel for defending herself and her citizens.
For some reason, they completely ignore hamas' actions and mission statement - the complete destruction of Israel.
Obama's behavior towards Israel is only emboldening her enemies, as they see this administration turn it's back on our decades-long alliance.
Obama is showing his TRUE colors - but some of us realized his rhetoric regarding Israel was just so much BS.
One cannot be a friend to Israel when he has been surrounded by those that hate Israel for his entire life.
Last edited by sanrene; 06-05-2010 at 03:27 PM..
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