Holly, this makes me reflect not only on the fact about the US (it frequently sells Israel out; our current administrations and other administrations are either pro-oil-and-Arab [and -Iran is always there as well] at Israel's expense, as is the priority of Americans when it comes to oil security, or when lefties [inmates] run things, PC emerges from the moral and philosophical sewer and disdain to contempt to hatred for Israel surfaces). No, our current oil-nation-preferring administration and sellout strategies (“Road Map” nonsense; stretching morality to the limit in dealing with Palestinian Arab authorities of all kinds) and worse attitudes toward Israel in the UK and in Europe are not the only thing. Israel is in worse shape still because it's so small and its smallness invites those with darker motives to be even more aggressive toward it. A well-conventionally-armed combined Arab opposition to Israel could overrun that tiny nation; a WMD attack could promptly end its existence.

Ignorant users should realize that not only is Israel handicapped by PC and other leftist post-1960s degeneracy in the West (how transparent that the Left began hating Israel once the Arabs became aligned with the Soviet Union rather than with the USA), but it is a small nation and inherently weak because of its size. Only the certifiably insane would deny nukes for Israel make sense, while only moral defectives would insist a nation with a government such as that of Iran has as much right to nukes as Israel. (The latter must logically insist that mental patients and multiply convicted violent weapons-violating felons deserve as much right to have guns as normal, decent non-criminal people.)

Israel is in a situation, as one book I own describes, as the Czechs faced in the 1930s (they were expendable to the larger powers in order to maintain peace and appease Hitler), or as Finland faced against the Soviet Union (“Leningrad is now in range of your artillery. Leningrad can't be moved, so the border must be moved”), or Poland, which was re-engineered and much of its eastern land given to the Soviets as World War II concluded. Israel has to be able to rely on itself; it will be constantly tested by larger, more aggressive nations and it cannot rely on other nations, who may consider it expendable or troublesome to the other nations' objectives.

As well as routine US- and Israel-bashing. It's no surprise in today's PC degenerate world, and obviously there must be a lower half of the bell curve to house such bashing and those who bash, but it is tiresome as well as stupid.

As has been demonstrated in Iraq and Lebanon, someitmes there is no simple military solution, or it can backfire. One has to be ready to accept the consequences , and the consequences might pose a greater threat than the original.

However, we have to understand that often those who see military action as salvation are acting out of deep fear, both current and historical. There are real reasons for the fear, it isn't a product of imagination, and fear as a motivator shouldn't be underestiamted. The question is, instead, how to deal with the fear.
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If the US were doing a better job as an ally, it wouldn't just pander to fear but would help Israel to see things more realistically.

This is the neo-con mindset, you cannot discuss any situation regarding Israel rationally with them; it is always a zero-sum circumstance with regards to Israel. In their mind Israel is always one step away from destruction (no matter its first world military, nuclear weapons, close American ally, strong economy, etc.) so any comments or discussions that hints at making an accommodation with Israel’s opponents is always seen as capitulation and is then met with threats and sometimes acts of violence against these opponents.

We must break ourselves from this mindset, we must ignore these people when they come out the woodwork with their intemperate railings and proclamations, we must understand that the do not have our country's best wishes at hand.

What we must understand is that sometimes what is best for Israel is not good for America.

I wish everyone would calm down. 10 years is a very long time. Not so long ago, China was “the yellow peril” that was going to take over SE Asia. Now, they're our biggest CAPITALIST competitor and “most favored nation” trading partner. Time is on our side.

Will we forever prepare for the last war instead of the next? The least likely scenario with ANY Middle Eastern country is that they will build an ICBM to attack us. Don't we get it yet? Box cutters are sufficient.

The GOP have this thing choreographed..

I've heard it said that if you're going to deceive someone, you should make the prank so outrageous, so hard to believe it is you, that people will dismiss the idea without further consideration.

Say goodbye to the Whitehouse Obama.