[Popman]

Your comment is ridiculous .... You act as though Israel is merely a puppet on a string beholden to the USA for it’s survival.....nothing could be further from the truth....

[zorro8987]

well I mean, every once in a while, it almost “seems” as if Israel is holding back, just because the US is trying to get them to hold back. But they shouldn’t. ... There was even a time when France said something — that was none of France’s business to say anything! I mean, that’s what I thought at the time. Like, why should Israel’s govt. listen to anything that France wants to say about their conduct? But the US is _supposed_ to be an ally; I don’t know about France.

[napscoordinator]

Your comment is ridiculous .... You act as though Israel is merely a puppet on a string beholden to the USA for it’s survival.....nothing could be further from the truth....

I am not saying that but if we stop all financial support they are finished. At least with them being a state they will survive and we can have them as a state. I bet if you asked most people in Israel they would love it. The problem is I am the ONLY one on Earth who ever thought of this and I just did so tonight. See I like to come up with bold and undiscovered results. It would be incredible if I were President for a year or two. The United States would be so powerful it would be incredible. I will settle for President Santorum however as I am busy the next two years already.

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, there is no reason for Israel to want to become part of the US. No nation-state with a well-formed identity ever voluntarily chooses to merge itself in a larger identity (East Germany was a special case--not a separate German nation but a fraction of the German nation artifically kept apart from the rest by Stalin's decisions).

America would not benefit either--it would give the Democrats two more Senators and 10 or 11 sure Congressional seats.