[Beagle8U]

"If you want to get technical, there's been a slow-motion WWIII in the Mideast for over 50 years, and Israel is holding it's own against some pretty bad odds."

Israel has defended its self in the past and gotten away with it, I agree.

Things have changed in the past 15-20 years and we wont leave Israel swinging in the wind to defend its self against the rest of the Mideast.

[cake_crumb]

I'm not sure, but you may have misunderstood my post. "May have", because I don't know what you mean by having "gotten away with" defending itself. They've a state of the art military and know how to use it and it is their right, as a sovereign state, to protect their citizens.

[itsahoot]

Things have changed in the past 15-20 years and we wont leave Israel swinging in the wind to defend its self against the rest of the Mideast.

We did exactly that in 1967, after we swore to Israel that if they gave up land for peace, we would defend them from attack by any arab nation that used the surrendered land as a stagimg area for an an attack.

When Israel called upon us to honor that agreement, we somehow could not find that document. Israel will soon lose two thirds of their people in an all out war, I wish I could be sure where we, as a Nation, will stand when this comes about.