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To: bentway who wrote (212370)	1/10/2007 10:51:14 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

How supporting Israel is in our national interest totally escapes me.. I think sometimes US policy becomes US policy, and then stays that way just because. We just re-opened relations with Vietnam a few years ago. Was there a reason to not have relations with them after 1980? Not really. We still can't go to Cuba - does that make any sense? And do we really need huge military bases in Germany? Not really. With Israel I think it becomes one of those policies that is our policy because it has been our policy for most of our adult lives, and that's that.