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To: zonder who wrote (50440)	10/9/2002 9:31:01 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

A state has to make long term plans for the welfare of its citizens, on a level far deeper than the human gut instincts that you are citing. Tom Paine once said, "The common good is nothing more than the sum of the individual good." Our attitude toward Israel may have started out because Harry Truman's "Haberdasher" partner was Jewish. In any case, Truman felt that Israel was the right thing to do and recognized it as soon as it declared it's Independence. Marshall almost resigned as Secretary of State because of that action, and our Diplomats at the UN could not believe it. The result of the '48 war bent our attitude toward Israel to "Those Gutty Little Jews," and Leon Uris cemented it when he wrote a best seller called "Exodus" and they made a Movie out of it, starring Paul Newman as the Jewish Hero. I am a big believer in a Foreign Policy that works on the basis that "We have no permanent friends or enemies, just permanent interests," but there are the "exceptions that prove the rule." We have two major exceptions that we have a "Special Relationship" with. One is Britain. The Brits have been cultivating that since the end of our Civil War. The other is Israel.

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