As a result, those nations retaliated with the Yom Kippur War because they felt that Israel was going to attack them again, and it was a close fought thing. Of course, the civil war still continues in Yemen and the US has been sucked into it.
Israeli forces have never fought beside US forces, so calling them an ally is a bit of a stretch. The US feels obliged to defend Israel, but there is no commitment on the part of Israel to reciprocate. There is no quid pro quo – the US gives and Israel takes.
]]>But it all really happened, and Israel has really changed. Stella’s ex, an Israel backer so aggressive that he wrote and published a book on the subject suitable for doorstopping the entrance to a large mansion, now scares me; I decline even to talk about Israel with him… this is a man who in his own youth marched with MLK into some of the signature civil rights confrontations. But I suppose whatever good thing you accomplish in your young adult years, you can count on joining battle for the same cause fifty years later, or else abandoning it altogether.
AIPAC is the NRA of its central cause.
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]]>This “http://graphics.wsj.com/gaza-before-after/” is intolerable. Gaza is not the domestic abattoir of isreal It’s well past time to start withdrawing isreali aid when
It took 13 years to settle the USS Liberty claims and they are our alies?
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