[SJackson]

I can give you more than $4 billion reasons why the US should be able to tell the Israelis how to behave if it is US interest to see stability emerge in that portion of the middle east. IF you don't like it write us a refund check!

If Israel gets the Sinai back, for a third time, I bet she'd write the check gladly.

[Huntingtonian]

Get real. The Israeli economy is nowhere near the size it would need to be to sustain their current level of military spending. You could give them the Sinai (if the Egyptians and their 80+ million population didn't come pouring over the canal), but without US aid Israel would be in big trouble, bankrupt or gone. The US has leverage to ask Sharon to do the Macarena with Abbas if we want to. Right now we NEED stability in the region its time for the Israelis to toe the line.