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Is that before or after Israel would cease to exist??

We are talking about the same Israel with what is probably the finest military force in the world, man for man, and has 200-300 nukes including neutron bombs and can deliver via plane, missile, or sub-launced cruise missiles?

You'd do better, if you really are concerned for Israel, to focus on the rapidly advancing Saudi nuclear weapons program which is using the Paki technicians from the Paki nuke program which the Saudis financed and the incredibly dangerous sale of $30 billion in advanced weaponry to the Saudis who are the real fundamentalist Islamic threat in the region and around the world.

The key matter here that no one wants to mention no matter how obvious it is: "It's the Saudis, stupid."

If we get nuked or Israel gets nuked, it's far more likely to be from our great allies, the Saudis or the Pakis. Not Iran.

The 1978 Camp David agreements resulted in the United States committing to several billion dollars worth of annual subsidies to the governments of both Israel and Egypt, subsidies which continue to this day, and are given as a mixture of grants and aid packages committed to purchasing U.S. materiel.

From 1979 (the year of the peace agreement) to 1997, Egypt received $1.3 billion annually, which also helped modernize the Egyptian military, turning it into the largest in the Middle East. Soviet-supplied until 1979, Egypt now received American weaponry such as the M1A1 Abrams Tank, AH-64 Apache gunship and the F-16 fighter jet. In comparison, Israel has received $3 billion annually since 1985 in grants and military aid packages.

Read A Framework for Peace in the Middle East and A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel, the second leading towards the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty signed in March, 1979. The agreements and the peace treaty were both accompanied by “side-letters” of understanding between Egypt and the U.S. and Israel and the U.S.

It is possible that these payments to these countries are part of that treaty...if so Dr. Paul would be obligated to continue the payments.

You can thank Carter for that. We had to help Egypt maintain a strong military...especially since by making the peace with Israel, the Islamic world considered Egypt to be a traitor to Islam, and bought and paid for by the Great Satan, Anwar Sadat was assasinated because of it. Sadat was assassinated during the annual 6th October victory parade in Cairo. A fatwā approving the assassination had been obtained from Omar Abdel-Rahman, a cleric later convicted in the U.S. for his role in the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing. Sadat was protected by four layers of security and the army parade should have been safe due to ammunition-seizure rules. However, the officers in charge of that procedure were on hajj to Mecca.

That treaty should never have been forced on Israel. They gave up the Sinai and the only oil fields they possessed.

And talk about blowback.

After watching American foreign policy in the Middle East for over forty years I have come to the conclusion that we pay Israel 3 billion a year to practice restraint.

We should butt out and let Israel police their own neighborhood while they still have the ability to do so.