[smokingfrog]

I always feel a bit uneasy around Yom Kippur time. (Joined the Army in ‘73 and remember it well.)

[algernonpj]

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/the_late_great_state_of_israel.html

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ooh-Ah. Bravo for Israel, for the IDF, for the IAF, and for Nixon's "send anything that will fly" airlift known as Operation Nickel Grass. Pretty good for an embattled drunk that nobody liked and who would resign within months. ONG outdid the airlift of the USSR, which had much shorter routes to fly, and it was the difference between life and death for Israel.

The objective of American diplomacy used to be to ensure that Israel received the recognition of the Arab States that it was due as a member of the United Nations. That recognition was to have resulted in the "secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force," that Israel is due under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 242. The American position was that as long as the Arab States threatened the security of Israel, we would provide the means for Israel's defense. Now the goal of American policy is the establishment of a Palestinian State...