realy i want to know  what is the interests of the U.S to support isreal rather than the arabs where the amiricans interests laying down with them, for example .. the huge investment the arabs billionairs placing it in the major u.s banks .. or the arab's oil where the amiricans depends on them to run their live's ! so\nwhy always the amirican adminstration taking the side of isreal in every problem raise? \nand  what is the amirican interests they see in isreales hand, so i can say hhh thats why the amiricans supporting and protecting isreals ?!
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Because Isreal is a free State. The American government is working on ways to produce energy so that we no longer have to rely on middle eastern oil.
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I think there's some serious Arab-bashing going on, and I'm just surprised that Bush is on the other side of this.  I find so few things in which to agree with him, but I believe he may be right here.\n\nI think too many politicians are using this issue to make some "hay" with the voters, and I'm pretty upset about that.  From what I know about this, there truly is no security issue involved, but there is a racial and religious one I believe.
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It was the Palestinians who refused to negotiate with the Israelis over land, and not the other way around.  There is plenty of land for both, and the real fight has never been about sharing the land.\n\nThe Palestinians want the Jews dead.  They use the land to rally support.  \n\nI would personally not trust information from an organization called either deir yassin or jews against zionism.  Pure propaganda.\n\nIrael is our US ally.  And before we make them give up any more land, maybe we should show them by example.  Let's all give up our homes, businesses and existences and move to Europe.  \n\nIsrael's claim to Israel is more legal that our claim to the US.
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These days most middle eastern countries claim/want to be US allies. The rest want to be the opposite. I live in Dubai and the conflict in the US government lobby regarding the Dubai Ports World deal created a lot of bad publicity in the press about the US, however i have not encountered even one comment that says the US-UAE relations should be severed. \n\nFact is, even though US supports Israel from the beginning, most countries in the region are and have been allies of the US, the most obvious cause of that being the US support of Kuwait when it was attacked by Iraq in 1991. A lot of the money from the region is invested in the US.\n\nFrom the point of view of the US, they want to have as many allies the region as possible. They do have all the oil here, don't they. And the petrodollars do flow into the US in most cases. However, this is indeed changing now.
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oh !john c. America doesn't have any interest there. What products does the eastern part of africa export to the usa? can't think of anything ? and that is why america won't do anything. if we were a country that was focused on humanity then yes we would be over there in a new york minute.It makes me so mad! because there are millions of people dying there! it also has a lot to do with race wheteher we want to admit it or not.Throwing a million dollars to them means nothing if a evil dictator gets it!
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i dont know what to say here ... \n\nsome times ... i think Isreal is one of states of USA ...\n\nonce i see it one of countries of the EU ...\n\nand once see it one of arab countries ...\n\nand once when u hear some of therr political ppl ..u think its the only contry can do what ever it want ...and no one CAN tell them stop ...\n\nand one ..and one ....\n\nmaybe u find my answer is werid ... but when u think well in what i want to say ...u know its not werid answer ;)\n\nGod/Allah bless you
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The US supporst Israel for the sole and simple reason that it is a highly strategic position in the middle east and one that needs our help.  Its a case of "you sratch my back and I scratch yours" right?  Yes we did in fact embargo S. Africa, however, S. Africa is a highly divided nation whose sides are more than willing to accept help from anyone (and believe me, America has its hand there too).  S. Africa offers no political or military advantage.  What America does there is purely arbitrary.  They have some diamonds and a little oil, but so does Russia.  So, that's why.  Political science is kinda my thing
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The US will always support Israel, especially with a fundamentalist president at the helm.  The US will never abandon Israel because it is strategically very important to have a stable ally in the region (at least politically stable). Also, to abandon Israel is to admit that creating Israel was a mistake... the US cannot admit mistakes, because the people of the US are very fragile and need to believe that their government cannot show weakness.
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Embargo the entire area, cut all aid to the region.  Offer a $200,000 USD per hour bounty (split evenly) on civil peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian delegates -- which puts them in a situation where if they want to get aid from us they have to help their enemies also get aid from us.  Both sides sit at the table and start chatting (in a friendly, civil way) and both sides get to send aid money home.  But if there are insults, silence, that kind of thing -- no pay out.\n\nOnce they start getting in the habit of being civil to each other for extended periods of time, maybe we can talk about a serious peace plan that won't get de-railed by umpteen rounds of reprisal attacks for some lunatic terrorist's attack.  And the moment that the talks do get derailed by somebody attacking somebody else, the money stops flowing -- to both sides.  Put simply, there's no point in punishing one side in a cycle of violence that's gone on since the book of Genesis...\n\n(Consider: The USA gives roughly $2B per year to Israel and was giving $.2B to Palestine.  If we can keep them chatting away happily for 24 hours per day for an entire year, both sides will have gained almost a billion dollars.  Massive decrease for Israel's aid budget, but a huge increase for Palestine's aid budget -- all while saving the US 10% on regional aid for Israel and Palestine.  The incentive is for Palestine to keep the peace talks civil and engaged (hugely more money than they're used to getting) while the incentive for Israel is to get to an actual peace plan so we can go back to feeding them the $2B/yr that they're used to.)
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In the 1970's the PLO, the Palistenian Liberation Organazation took refuge in Lebanon, and were launching attacks on the Isreali's from there, in 1978 and then 1982 Isreal invaded and succedded in driving the PLO from Lebenon, but when Isreal invaded, the lebanese themselves resisted and formed the Group Hezbollah, a guerilla fanatical religous group, and launched a guerilla campaign against the Isreali's, Isreal maintained a ten mile buffer zone within lebanon from 1982 until 2000, and Hezbollah always resisted Isreal within this territory until the U.N. brokered a peace agreement in 2000 and the Isreali's withdrew, but Hezbollah which was formed to resist the Isreali's no longer had a war to fight, they did not disband, instead they claimed the sheeba farms territory,(which was really part of Syria) as an occupied part of Lebanon, so they would not have to disband, and continued to attack and harass Isreal, and the reason they were fighting with Isreal this summer is because Hezbollah kidnapped two Isreali soldiers, which caused Isreal's response to punish Hezbollah for their actions, so Lebanon and Isreal are not actually fighting Isreal and Hezbollah are, not to mention the Lebanese army is a joke.  \n\nThough it is much more complicated that this, you might want to look it up on Wikipedia, alot of the Problems between the two go back to the very formation of Isreal, most arabs (an understatement) believe that Isreal itself should not exist, and this is the real root of the problem, this is it in a nutshell though like I said it is so much more complicated than what I've said.
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You know, I never realized this until the last year or so, and see how old I am! A bit dense, I guess. I feel like some of this goes back to the U.S. being so Christian and religiously based. They probably feel like the Jews are still 'gods' chosen people, and want to protect and be in league with them.\nIn a way, I undestand wanting to protect helpless people. However, Israel is not a helpless country any longer, probably more powerful than a lot of other countries.
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First of all i would like to clear for "love_2b_curious" that not all jews-as they believe are "God's ppl" ...you have to diffrentiate between true jews applying the judaism instructions and the zionists who kill innocent ppl aganist the istructions of judaism and ofcourse God-tell me now how can God choose someone who is not applying His religion as His chosen ppl...Do not confuse.\n\n"God's ppl" are the ppl applying ALL His instructions not only the instructions that are suitable for their interests.\n\nAs for why is israel still occupying the gaza strip and the west bank,while the international community is silent about it,is simply because the zionist lobby controls everything and also because there are many like love_2b_curious,ppl like u who r not well informed and ofcourse it's not their fault but the fault of the intenational media that is obviously also controled by the zionists.
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Israel is a terrorist state backed by America and assisting it in its fight against Islam. Unless Muslim states join together and fight against these terrorists this killing will continue.
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i'm thinking you're right on the money.\n\n\nrani...aha the truth comes out..we're the enemy and we're always going to be the enemy because we support Israel.  Let's cut the crap shall we and get down to the truth...you people just hate the thought that Israel even exists...you will never accept it as a nation..never respect it's sovereignty, and never forgive the U.S. for supporting Israel.  Well it's going to stay that way so get used to it.\n\nBut you know what..there was another option...we could have stayed home..and let you all deal with saddam.  We could have let saddam take over kuwait, then invade saudi. Then let Iraq and Iran fight it out some more....and the first damned time one American..just one...was murdered..by some terrorist hijacker...or some building was blown up, just one incident on American soil, and we turn that entire area into a glass parking lot and say theres your freaking palestinian homeland....you want it that way..you ungrateful piece of camel shit?
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If someone comes to your home and wants to catch it and gives you just one room, what whould you do? Guess this is a good example of what isreal is doing with people in Palestine!\nif you like to discuss more, mail me at foogi65@yahoo.com
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No... not agreeing with Israel is not Anti -Semetic many Hassidic Jews do not recognise Israel as a State and do not support it's actions  Try that in in court!  Anyway I believe the Palastinians got screwed but I do Support our Ally Israel.   Frredom of speech is more important than the anti israel rants.
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Vow Marianne, don't accept what people claim to be.\nThey announce that everyone who sign up for this Suiside Bombing show will get a raise on his paycheck and you can imagine how many people will sign up , they usually force some of Military people to join it and they happily accept it for few days off. They will march once and go back to their homes.\nA suiside bomber needs to be a little insane because of very bad circumstances, he needs to think he is doing it for God, freedom, his country and his family, this is possible for a Palestinian not an Iranian.\nHave you heard of any suiside bombing done by Iranians? You can check 9/11, Israel and Iraq suiside attacks and all the sources you have. Have you heard any Iranian in Al-Quada?\nEven religious Iranians don't like such acts, they rather to go Iraq as a pilgrim instead of terrorist.\nIranian has threatened Israel for 30 years,  no harm to Israel has done by Iran, I mean it is true that Iran supports some of Anti Israel groups a little but US has a Anti Iran budget, we can call it even.\nIran and Israel relationship is too complicated, many famous Jews are from Iran, Jews are really free in Iran(Like everywhere else they are in Business), they have same enemies(Arabs don't like Iranians too, they call Iranians Ajam which means shallow people and Iranians can't forget what Arabs did when they capture Iran just once), Farsi is a spoken language in Israel(this one is from wikipedia) and many other facts that I can't remember now.\nAnyways I can't understand why Pakistan who has supported Bin Laden and Taleban can have nukes and Iran can't use it for peaceful energy making, Iran and West will find a political solution for enrichment problem as soon as West come with a good offer, Iranians know that US can't invade Iran right now and UN will not support any attack on Iran(because of good relations with China and Russia) so they are playing a political game.\nI personally recommend you not be affraid of any of 52,000 Iranians suiside bombers, this is just a show.\nEdit: Ok, this Iraqi dude made me to give some facts that are not related to the subject at all and I don't like to discuss them here but there is no other choices.\n1. During a declared war and against military forces there  anything except chemical and nuclear weapons isn't prohibited, it is not a terrorist act against civilians, I don't know what you've heard about Iranian suiside bombers during Iran-Iraq war, there was some going into mine territory actions to open the road for others because Saddam had a taste for land mines.\nI think our government was absolutely right about liberating Iraq from Saddam, that is exactly  why US army is in Iraq now, we wanted to liberate you from a heinous dictator that use chemical weapon against you(Like Shalamche where thousands of Iraqi civilians died with Saddam chemical weapons) and some years next did a great massacre against Shiie people .\nOf course I'm with Israelis, that's not my problem, that's not my people problem, I don't care what they do to Arabs there, most of my people don't, Arabs problems are for their own, I have told before, its a tradition for Iranians to say wipe out Israel, nothing has done and will be done. Of course Iran has missles which can reach Israel, it is not a secret, Iran has tested them and US has seen the test, I have told here, these weapons have political uses not military ones, Iranians don't want a war, Iran president knows it.\nAbout our people, we are a multi race country, Arabs are those who you know about, we have Kurds, Lors, Torks, bakhtiari, Afghans, Armani, Ashuri(these are remains of the ancient civilization of Ashur and they are christians) and other races that I can't remember now, there isn't any problem within us, I haven't heard of any racial violence.\nYou have named Ahwas, I am Half Khuzestani, of course from a special tribe there who are no