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Look, I'm sorry, but while I am no grand supporter of the Arabs or the French or the U.N. or any other group that opposes the U.S. on a regular basis, I see no reason why we should be worried about or backing up Israel. We simply have no real policy reason to back them up, unless it's to irritate the heck out of every Arab nation around Israel--as if we need to frost the few 'friendly' nations that have the engine of our industrial base, oil.

In fact, most of Inhofe's logic can be used to justify a certain other group's claims:

Why Native Americans Are Entitled To The U.S.

Number One: All the archeological evidence supports it.
The second proof of Native Americans' right to the land is the historic right. History supports it totally and completely. We know there were Native Americans up until the time of the United States. The Colonists conquered the land. Natives had no homeland. They were driven from the land in multiple dispersions.
But there was always a Native American presence in the land, in city and county and state names, and the names of myriad other places.
The fourth reason I believe Native Americans have the right to the land is on the grounds of humanitarian concern. You see, there were innumerable Native Americans slaughtered or killed from epidemics introduced by colonists in the territory that is now the United States both before and during the majority of the colonists' arrival.
These Native American people have a right to their homeland. If we are not going to allow them a homeland of the United States, then where? What other nation on Earth is going to cede territory, is going to give up land?
They are not asking for a great deal. The whole continental United States would fit into Russia and Canada umpteen times.

I can't even start to twist Inhofe's 3rd, 5th and 6th comments in favor of Native Americans, but as to #7, if you want to tell me that God says any nation gets the so-called 'holy land,' why doesn't he give it to them? Why did he let the Romans take it, and why does the U.S. have to prop up Israel to the tune of billions of bucks in subsidies if God wants it? Surely He, in his omnipotent might, can handle it himself.

We have enough problems with the cursed Arab dictatorships that we don't need to go out of our way to create more. I don't dispute that they're more democratic than their neighbors or that there are a thousand reasons they are better than their neighbors, but I do seriously dispute the notion that we MUST do a darned thing for the people of any nation but our own.

Inhofe does not list the most important and obvious reason:: The right of conquest. Israel deserves the land because they have the power and the will to hold it.

No other right has anywhere near as much authority.

Your are absolutely right - but be prepared to be called anti-semetic.

The Indians may have been here before European Whitemen, but recent excavation seem to indicate that the people we call, Indians, were not the first Native Americans.

Good retort. Inhoff really missed the boat on this one.

What he should have listed are reasons why it is in the US' best interest for Israel to keep its land.