reply to post by aboxoftrix
I don't think this new US administration cares for anyone except themselves
Israel is NOT the 51st State of America. Let's be very clear about that.
As much as some people, such as the Jewish Lobby in Congress, would love to believe that is true, America has little tangible benefits from supporting
Israel the way it does currently.
Friends are one thing, what the US and Israel have is a
PARASITIC relationship.
Israel is the leech, America is the fat hog being slowly drained.
Since when does the US give any of it's other Allies $6.4 billion dollars in "aid" per year?
The amount of money the US has poured into that ghastly region since the 1970's, could have funded an outerspace colony on Mars to escape from this
god-forsaken planet.
Israel is sucking the US into a blackhole slowly but surely and the American government are too blind to see they're being dragged down by their
so-called "friends" because of the Jewish Lobby in the US Congress.
American interests and Israeli interests conflict on so many levels, why should America sacrifice it's own national security to help Israel?
By supporting Israel, America paints a big, bright bullseye on it's ass for every Islamic Fundamentalist in the world to use as an excuse to attack
the US. That's why US troops are dying everyday in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Not because they
"hate our freedoms" but because the enemy of our "friend", if you could Israel that, is now our enemy by proxy.
And what does Israel do for us?
Apart from grant free citizenship to American Jews and give us cheap falafel maybe.
When are they ever going to show the slightest bit of gratitude, let alone repay who know's how many untold trillions of dollars in "aid" and
military toys?
America didn't create Israel, it didn't bring it on to it's feet, and it didn't start funding it until recently.
It's not Americas responsibility. Israel is the biggest "blowback" suffered in American Foreign Policy since funding the Taliban against the
Soviets, Saddam Hussein against Iran and the Contras in Nicaragua.
[edit on 9/4/09 by The Godfather of Conspira]