[sofaman]

What choice do the Israelis have? We are pretty much their only ally. Who else is there? Yet Condi Rice, on the day that Jews were evicting Jews in Gaza, chose THAT day, to say that "this is just the beginning".

You have no idea the resentment that caused in Israel, the same country that, at the request of the US, did not retaliate against Saddam when he was lobbing SCUDS into Israel, to preserve the Coalition.

What choice has Israel had?

And the UAE has never rebuked or withdrawn their call for Israel to be wiped off the map.

[defconw]

I am aware of that and as I recall Sharon was the one who started that eviction. Like I said up the thread, this is a multi-level chess game, nothing is black and white, also none of us are intell agents or on the inside. All we can do is observe. I refuse to see Israel as helpless and there is no way this President won't defend them if they ask for us to do so. The have stood down due to our request and that is as far as I am concerned very strong evidence that we are very close allies.