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Is it not reasonable to expect that money goes for weapons? Even if not directly, it frees up cash in other areas for weapons purchases.

The fact is, we support Israel to a far greater extent than any other nation its size. That doesn't go unnoticed by the Palestinians and the Arab world. No matter how you slice it we have purchased a boat-load of resentment and hatred that way.

Ah, I see the point you are making. You should be more direct. You are saying that the Palis are mad at the US because we are supporting the Israelis militarily.

What if we were supporting the Israelis militarily, yet the Israelis did not use the weapons against the Pali terrorists, as the Pali terrorists weren't attacking the Israelis? Then, the Palis wouldn't be mad at the US, right? You see, the point you are making is that the Israelis have no right to self defense. I hardly think you will convince anyone with that argument.

You really ought to read Bin Ladin's propaganda statements. He wants the USA out of Kuwait and Saudi. We spend a heck of a lot more defending Kuwait and Saudi than we give Israel in foreign aid. If we leave Saudi and Kuwait then Saddam Hussein moves in. You want Saddam Hussein controlling MidEast oil? You want China and Russia to expand their influence there? Are you crazy? THINK THINK THINK THINK THINK

http://www.msnbc.com/news/629210_asp.htm
By John Hockenberry

HE IS A CREATURE of shadows with a resume of terror, a master of secrecy. But even before this week, Saudi millionaire Osama bin Laden, the presumed mastermind of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, had made no secret of his hatred of the United States.

Bin Laden has said, “We want our land free of the enemies. We want our land free of the Americans. I have been in a war, enemy, hated against Americans.”

To Osama bin Laden, America and the non-Islamic West have exploited the Muslim world, have Muslim blood on their hands and have turned Saudi Arabia — his home country — into the West’s petroleum filling station to drive its industry and wealth.

Yet this zealot’s first battles were part of the Cold War, and he fought on our side..........(more at above link)

Saudi-born guerrilla leader Osama bin Laden aims an AK-47 in an undated video obtained by Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai al-Aam in June.

I ask you all this, what is the deal with the Arabs. Together, they have more land than the United States. Israel is the size of New Jersey. It was a s*&#t hole when the Jews moved in back in '48. They have made it a nice place to live. Many Arabs live there because being a democracy, it is a nice place to live and work. Do the Arabs want to destroy the Jews or just take what they have built and corrupt it. Wouldn't you help some little kid you saw being beat up by twenty 200 lb bullies. Would you teach him to defend himself? I like to think I would, I hope I would, I prey I would. To not do something would shame me to death.

How much money do we give to Egypt each year? the PLO? Saudi Arabia? Afghanistan? Kuwait? take all the muslim countries add up our foreign aid to them and then compare. I am sick of people complaining about funding Isreal, but never condim funding muslim states, smacks of anti-semitism or at the least hipocracy.