No need to give the entire state to Israel. We could just give them 150 miles of the Central California coast starting north of Vandenberg AFB. Only problem is, do the Americans living there want to live in the middle of a Jewish state? You know sometimes I seriously think it might make sense to move Israel rather than have all this continued bloodshed. That would amount to appeasement of terrorists, but you have to wonder where the current situation is leading.
defenderSD,
Newport Beach, CA
In reality we only import about 25% of our oil from the Middle East. We could easily cover that with our own known reserves if the price of oil were high enough to make domestic drilling profitable. We could also exploit Russian fields and even African reserves. The real dependency on Middle Eastern oil is Japan and some European countries. That is why it is so funny when people accuse the Bush family of being soft on the Saudis because of oil. The fact is that the Bush family’s real ties are to the independent Texas producers and drillers because that is how the Bush family amassed their “oil“ fortunes. The very ones that would profit the most from 50 dollar a barrel oil.