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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (18070)2/5/2002 5:49:49 PM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Fair enough. I think the Israeli hawks would answer, it's a deal as long as you stop twisting our arm to force us to expose our necks to the enemy.

Agreed. I've increasingly come to think that both the U.S.-Israel relationship and the situation on the ground over there would be improved by the transformation/clarification of the bond into one of simple friendship combined with a more explicit strategic alliance, instead of the confusing ambiguous patron/client bond that exists now. I see no reason, for example, for continuing large amounts of US foreign aid to Israel, which is now after all a fully developed country. Once their general security from external threats is assured, and the aid relationship terminated, how they deal with their internal threats might be more easily seen (by all concerned) as their problem.

It's an unfortunate fact about the state of public debate in the United State--thanks principally to some of my overzealous coreligionists--that merely expressing such a view in print or on air would be enough to at the very least raise questions about someone's anti-Semitism, and make the person a pariah essentially ineligible for elective or appointive office...

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