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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: average joe who wrote (88333)11/13/2004 3:13:43 PM
From: Sidney Reilly  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
The British were instrumental in creating Israel in the first place and double crossed the Arabs just to get themselves out of the problem of the Jews.

You may be too young to remember but our relationship during much of Israel's existence was based on Cold War thinking. America took up it's relationship with Israel to balance against the Arab nations who were allied with the Soviet Union and received foreign aid in the form of Soviet arms for their Arab military's. The US aided Israel heavily to balance against the Soviet support of the Arab nations. A lone bulwork of democracy in the ME. Every time Israel beat the Arabs in a war it was the US beating the USSR.

Then the USSR was no more and the justification for such huge support for Israel diminished to a moral issue because Israels existence is no longer of strategic importance to the US. We can deal with Arabs and the oil problem without Israel. In fact Israel gums up the works by creating more problems for the US in dealing with the Arabs to get their oil.

But Israel is there for good. They are a nuclear power and they will not lose a war without going nuclear. The US has to protect Israel in order to avoid the war that would spark a nuclear strike by Israel. That's the always avoided or ignored truth of the whole problem. Either Israel will exist, or no one will exist in that region. It's never discussed that way in the media but that is the truth of the problem.
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