1.Israel--we do pay them over 3$ Billion a year in TAXPAYER Money, plus load them down with whatever weapons they want.
Let's say this $3 billion per year were just foreign aide, what does Israel do with that money? It turns around and makes purchases from the U.S. with it. This supports our defense contractors and other businesses in the U.S. I belive some if not all of this money is in the form of guaranteed loans, not outright grants. Israel pays off those loans.
2. No. But our support for Israel will not win us any Arab friends.
As someone else stated, who has been more friendly with Saudi Arabia than us? When we found out that their nationals took our Trade Center down, we still treated the government with respect, even after we found out that members of the royal family had funded some of the terrorists. So please, explain to us what cordial relations with the Arab world has gained us except spite and hatred.
3. Egypt did not attack Israel in 1967. Israel attacked Egypt on June 5, 1967 and launched a strike against their airfields.
While some theories state that Israel baited the attack against their nation in 1967, it's poppycock to state that Israel attacked without provocation. It simply didn't happen that way.
4. Jordan had a mutual defense treaty with Egypt.
What was more important is that they shared a hatred for Israel. Neither had recognized it and both swore to destroy it. Syria, Jordan and Egypt attacked Israel, not the other way around.
5. The British had Transjordan--Palestine and Jordan. Neither the British nor the Jordanians acted towards the Palestinian population in the harsh manner that the
Israelis do.
Jordan expelled all Palestinians from it's territory when they tried to take over it's government, so I think it's a little bit of a white obfuscation to state Israel has treated the Palestinians worse than the Jordanians. Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza because terrorism was eminating from those territories. Israel tried to implement autonomy in those territories and was thanked by the Israeli armed West Bank and Gaza police turning their guns on Israel. Terrorist homicide bombings have been the icing on the cake.
6. The British turned over the territory to the UN because of Jewish Terrorism, from such men as Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.
There were skirmishes that were instigated by both sides. I'm not going to characterize either based on the media's reports, because I recognize the media to be so lopsided against Israel that's it's foolish to use them as a source to damn Israel. I do know of one incident where the Palestinians captured an elementary school full of children, then attempted to use them as hostages for blackmail. I believe many of those children died, but my memory may be faulty on that. You didn't mention Palestinian complicity in any wrongdoing at any time did you. Why was that?
Maalot, 1974. The Palestinians murdered their hostages as the IDF attempted to perform a rescue operation. Similar to the massacre at the '72 Munich Olympics (and we know who was the Team Lead for that project)