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Or do you just turn a blind eye to ethics and protocol breaches when they involve Israel?

I don't, and I steadfastly refused to contribute to AIPAC even before this incident. I don't think it's proper for Americans to lobby for foreign governments rather than for U.S. interests.

But the case at hand does not involve Rosenberg or Walkers level espionage, and the U.S. court is meting out the proper penalty. That's why I objected to your "fry them" comment.

I wish you and the others on this thread would speak up on others, where Freepers condemn President Bush as not being "pro-Israel" enough. But you shouldn't go to the other extreme either by making Israel out to be some dark, sinister power.

Israel is faced with the prospect of mullah-bombs, nuclear weaponry in the same hands that sent out orders a few years ago to bomb a Jewish community center in Argentina just because they could do it (thanks to the complicity of then-President Menem of Argentina). If the U.S. were in the same situation, and if our survival depended on the policy of a great power, our diplomats would also be trying to find out what that great power was going to do, and try to get them to help us before it would be too late.

Israel would do well, however, to keep at arm's length with our government's officials. Instead, they should appeal directly to the American people. They are shooting themselves in the foot and worse by trying to game our political system.