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- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And guess who the Cranston Amendment is named after? It's sponsor back in 1984, California Democratic Senator Alan Cranston.
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You really believe that? Wow!
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Unfortunately, it's a catch 22, because as long as the US does support Israel there is little incentive for Israel to work for peace."
Hmmm. Don't keep up on history that much, do you?
"On 24 May 2000 Israel withdrew its troops from southern Lebanon."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict#Israel-Lebanon_conflict
"...and the disengagement from the Gaza Strip was completed on September 12, 2005, when the last Israeli soldier left the Gaza strip. The military disengagement from the northern West Bank was completed ten days later."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel's_unilateral_disengagement_plan - seanl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aside from religious support in the US and the desire by the US government to have an "ally" in the Middle East to protect the interests of US oil companies, I think the other reason the US supports Israel is because of the very real risk that Israel will feel that it needs to use nukes to defend itself if it is isolated. One could call it nuclear blackmail but the fact remains that you have a country with nukes surrounded by enemies who want it wiped off the map. Unfortunately, it's a catch 22, because as long as the US does support Israel there is little incentive for Israel to work for peace. So don't support them, they may use nukes against their neighbors, do support them and you may not get peace out of it.
Maybe we'll get lucky and the US's trading partners will start to lose their taste for American debt so the US will not be able to *afford* to support Israel any more, thus forcing an end to this cycle. It should not be solely the US's responsibility to prevent Israel from nuking its neighbors. I'm tired of footing the bill. - blogsceptic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If the US stopped supporting Israel for just 12 months the Middle East would become peaceful and terrorism would stop
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It's not considered genocide to the Islamofacists though. Those are just the instructions given to them by Mohammed to further the Islam religion. You know, the most peaceful religion on Earth.
- ViperDaimao, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I imagine he's hoping that once that happened the Muslim countries could then get together and kill all the Jews. Oh I mean Zionists. Which just happens to be every Jew in Israel. Funny how that works out, no? Ah, the sweet dreams of brutal genocide.
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