[Sabertooth]

You keep comparing Israel's democracy to America's, and seem to think it's noteworthy that ours is better.

Of course it's better, no one's arguing differently.

But the government of Isarel is the most free, democratic, and humane in the entire Middle East, bar none.

Why is your anti-Israel sentiment your focus here, and not a more appropriate condemnation of the Islamic dictatorships that surrond it?

[sobieski]

Easy: we are asked to support Israel because it "shares our values". But looked coldly, when a Cabinet Member calls people "lice", and wants to deport them all -Israeli Arabs, Palestinian Arabs- to make the land ethnically pure, I call into question whether they do in fact "share our values". And from your answers, apparently they don't. So why support them. I don't support the Mid-Eastern countries, and don't want to. I don't care a whit about them. Bring the troops back from Saudi Arabia. Leave the region. Let them bleed themselves; it'd matter as much to America as the war in Bosnia did. We don't need the Middle East for anything, so let them stew on their own. All of them.