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"If Bush fails to appease Blair in this endevour then one could indeed say that the interests of Isreal are put above the US at the expense of an ally like Britain that stood by us and fought with us."

If Bush does appease Blair it can be said that once again the U.S. is selling out Israel and the Jews. Time and again, America has compromised Israel's security by appeasing other interests. Inter alia: It has pressured Israel not to fight back when Israel's vital security interests are at issue as during the Gulf War; it condemned Israel for the bombing of the Iraq nuclear reactor despite the fact this one act probably saved the entire West; it pressured Israel into the Oslo Accords which has cost Israel the lives of many hundreds of its citizens. This, of course, mirrors perfectly how the U.S. also sold out the Jews during the Holocaust, from its anti-Semitic immigration policy to not lifting a finger to prevent the genocide; the U.S. fought the war despite the Jews and not because of them.

So selling out Israel is really to be expected despite the fact Israel is America's only true ally. If you believe that the UK cares a damn for any interests other than her own you are gravely mistaken. I live there. For the most part Americans are despised in the UK. Blair was on America's side simply as a matter of political expediency. Israel was prevented from entering the war because the US was again appeasing her Arab "friends."

So you have it the wrong way around. The question should not be whether America would put Israel's interests above her own, but why, when the chips are down she always places Israel's interests below everyone else's, including the America and Jew-hating Labour left of the UK?

I don't think it's correct to say Blair sided with US for "political expediency", given that his choice was a very unpopular one in his country up until very recently when it became apparant that the campaign is going so well.

As for Israel, I think it's ridiculous to say that America is selling out Israel. I don't know if Israel is America's only ally, I do know that America is Israel's only ally, and that latter is far more important to Israel than the former is for America.

Selling out Isreal? How any American can say we have ever sold Isreal out is beyond me. Isreal is our best ally? Of course she is (other than the spying on us and selective selling of our secrets.) I have no doubt that Isreal benefits from her alliance to us. I just don't see how we benefit from ours to Isreal.