I can’t imagine why anyone would think they could depend on Israel for anything. They have never provided another nation with troops or logistic support in a war.

They don’t honor arms embargoes, nor feel obligated to honor their agreements. Associating with them is just dangerous, without any real benefit.

Found this interview in Der Spiegel with Former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz:

Relations between Israel and Turkey are strained to the breaking point following last Monday’s raid by Israeli forces on an aid convoy heading to the Gaza Strip. Former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz told SPIEGEL that Turkey could have helped prevent bloodshed, but that Israel is ultimately to blame.

We Should Reduce Our Military Dependency on Israel

USA Politicians could learn a thing or two… 😆 (Yeah… I’m a dreamer! I know…)

The key is the Russian Army and the definite fear of falling into their hands. The US Army was at the right place at the right time to scoop up a lot of scientists.

The biggest problem for the UK in the aftermath was the money to do further research. They were in a commanding lead in jet aircraft and computers, but money was needed for a lot of other things, like rebuilding cities that had been bombed.

Well, I always found it curious that the USA actually ended up with most of the *expatriated* German brains. I always wondered what the deal was with the Brits. The US Still screwed the Brit’s over WW2 anyway, so it wasn’t a very good deal! Maybe it was the final real price for the USA to enter the war, with Pearl Harbor the final excuse. Actually, the USA was involved in the War from about 1940 in the form of billions of $ of aid to the British and French ($42 bln by 1945) at fairly high interest rates (of course!) 😉 😀 This was an interesting read (as to accuracy… The truth is somewhere in there!): 😉

Why America Entered World War 2

Actually, about all that Me supplied was a nameplate and some canopy expertise, which Me was paid handsomely for.

The X-1 and X-2 were Bell before they shifted to helicopters, but the X-15 came out of North American. Based simply on visible design, I would think that the Me guys had more of an impact on British aircraft manufacturers than the US, because the Brits were better positioned to take immediate advantage of the information. People forget that Britain was moving faster than the US in aircraft design and had jet aircraft before the US.

There is also a good deal of visible evidence that some of them “decided to work” with Yakolov.

These days, they are back in the plane biz. 🙂 They had some truly imaginative people working there in the 30’s-40’s. I wonder what they could have achieved if they had been allowed to continue. 🙂 My German uncle (by marriage – He was a Merchant Ship Captain turned German Navy Captain) once told me that Messerschmitt engineers that were *expatriated* to the USA (they had no choice or say in it) were responsible for the Bell X-15 and other USAF aircraft after.

Oh, I knew you were thinking about the ME-109 designer, but it is a very common German surname. Actually I considered buying one of these, but everyone had a fit when I mentioned it.

In order to form a government the Likud brings in all of the far-right whackos and will lose a no-confidence vote if they try to compromise on anything, so they don’t even consider it.

I was thinking more along the lines of this association:

Wikipedia – Messerschmitt

I managed to have a chat with a Jewish friend of mine here. Was interesting. He said there is a lot of anger within the Jewish community here, and around the World. He likens the Likud to Jews what the Taliban are to Muslims. I’ve seen that reference a couple times now in my searches. This is going to get very interesting I think!

The name is the equivalent of “Cutler” and isn’t religion specific, as everyone needs knives, but it is interesting.

62 Years after Holocaust, Jews in Germany Thrive

…These days, German Jews like the Jarosches are displaying new self-confidence about their future in the country that – within living memory – perpetrated the Holocaust.

“Twenty years ago, this would have been impossible in Berlin,” said Siegfried Jarosch, a real estate agent born and raised in the German capital. “But today we have an amazing Jewish infrastructure with kosher butchers, bakers, Jewish schools and several synagogues.”

The Jarosches – three generations of German Jews living under one roof – are immersed in Berlin’s Jewish community life. Siegfried is on the board of the Pestalozzistrasse Synagogue in Berlin’s western Charlottenburg district, his daughter and son, Joshua, 4, go to the Jewish kindergarten and elementary school, and his wife, Conny, 42, keeps a kosher kitchen at home.

Since the German government relaxed immigration laws for Jews following reunification in 1990, tens of thousands of Jewish migrants have come here, mostly from the former Soviet Union.

According to the Central Council of Jews in Germany, an estimated 250,000 Jews now live in the country, with some 110,000 of them registered religious community members.

Before 1990, only 23,000 Jewish community members lived in Germany, according to the Central Council.

“In 2005, more Jewish immigrants came to Germany than to Israel,” said Stephan Kramer, the general secretary of the Central Council. “Without immigration, most of the Jewish communities would not exist anymore,” he said, adding that about 200,000 Jews left the former Soviet Union for Germany since the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989…

This was good to find:

Jews for Peace – Ships to Gaza

Bryan, notice the authors name (bottom of that page)! 😉 Heh…

I’m sure it won’t be too long before Israel begins to kill Jews… then the circle really will be complete! Perhaps will see them for what they truly are.