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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (118357)	11/3/2003 12:10:42 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The relationship between the 2 nations is so close, and has been close for so long, that I (and much of the world) consider Israel the de facto 51st State. This isn't true, for Lebanon or Syria. Or even Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Interesting take...you are aware that we send Egypt $2 billion a year, aren't you? but obviously that isn't any measure of the 'closeness' you are talking about, so I think we can leave "your tax dollars" out of the discussion. But I also think the U.S. should stop sending billions to Egypt, and not use our army to keep in power medieval despots like the Emir of Kuwait. The U.S. ought to stand for something, and that "something" is not Sharon or the Emir of Kuwait Again, you are aware that Sharon is a democratically elected official who will leave office at the end of his term - the only one in the Middle East, are you not? Yet to your way of thinking, it's worse to be "close" to him than to the Emir of Kuwait. If we remember our ideals, shouldn't we prefer democracies that share our values of individualism, freedom of ideas and free markets? Your post is more interesting for what you don't say than what you do.