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To: dschapin

He never said that and will stand with Israel.

The history of trying to bring peace in that region is a road full of wrecks. I do not believe that there can ever be a peace deal.

See we got conned by the British after W.W. II to take over for them as the protector of Israel in that region.

Think about for a moment though why exactly do we support Israel, from anther viewpoint they don;t really do anything for us and if we had not supported them would we have had better relations in the ME? Lot of food for thought.


31 posted on 02/17/2016 7:20:07 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Do you read a lot of Mearsheimer and Walt?


38 posted on 02/17/2016 7:23:34 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: Captain Peter Blood
why exactly do we support Israel, from anther viewpoint they don;t really do anything for us

Oh, Israel doesn't really do anything for us, eh? Shows how IGNORANT you are. Israel was the primary developer of the cell phone. Israel has brought the world (including ignorant you) important medical advances in the area of cancer, AIDS, epilepsy, Parkinsons disease, liver disease, emphysema, the Pillcam, first artificial heart transplant, many vaccines, pioneering work in desalination technology, world-renown work in arid area agriculture, Pentium and Celeron processors were developed there, antivirus technology was developed there, the email algorithm was developed there, as was Video on Demand technology, ebook technology, electric car technology, solving bee colony collapse, generic drugs (Israel's Teva Pharma is the world's largest manufacturer of generics), the cherry tomato was originated there, baby monitoring devices were invented there, HP's Indigo digital printing processes were developed there, and innumerable other medical and technology contributions. And, Israel was the first or one of the first responders to many world crises in other countries, bringing doctors, nurses, medical supplies, etc.

Don't do anything for us? You couldn't be more wrong.

55 posted on 02/17/2016 7:41:23 PM PST by EinNYC
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The Israelis successfully revolted against Brit misrule under the leadership of David ben Gurion, Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, the Irgun and the Stern Gang. They are and alwauys have been our allies. This artificial Palestinian "Authority" was created by politicians on auto-sellout and deserves to be crushed once and for all. Is there some reason we should want better relations with the lunatics whose self-imposed ad imagined misery is such that they want to share that misery or transfer that misery to the Jews and the Americans.

Consider the King David Hotel incident before you imagine that the rits had any intention of protecting Israel or handing off the responsibility to the US. We voluntarily assumed the role of Israel's protector because it is, by far, the most civilized nation in that region.

151 posted on 02/17/2016 10:12:43 PM PST by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline: Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Society/Rack 'em Danno!)
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