http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2006-04/10/article05.shtml\nCAIRO, April 10, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – “Why has the United States been willing to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of another state?” wonders a US study called, “The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy”.\n\nThe 83-page study is co-authored by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.\n\n“The US national interest should be the primary object of American foreign policy. For the past several decades, however, and especially since the Six Day War in 1967, the centerpiece of US Middle East policy has been its relationship with Israel," says the study.\n\nRelying on efforts by Israeli scholars, journalists and international human rights organizations, the academic paper reveals the role played by the Israel Lobby inside the United States in directing Washington's foreign policy to promote Israel's interests,
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Complete idiocy. \n\nPeople have always had crazy fantasies about powerful world-controlling Jews.
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Best rundown of what's going on with this NAU plan here:\nhttp://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14965\n\nI don't think Americans will go for it. You can listen to an interview with the author of that article: http://www.israelnationalradio.com/\nHe's said that the story should reach the mainstream media soon. So, this should become a hot topic.
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Occupied Jerusalem: 3 October, 2001 (IAP) -- According to Israel radio (in Hebrew) Kol Yisrael, [Shimon] Peres warned [Ariel] Sharon Wednesday that refusing to heed incessant American requests for a cease-fire with the Palestinians would endanger Israeli interests and "turn the US against us."\n\nAt this point, a furious Sharon reportedly turned toward Peres, saying "every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it."\n\nThe radio said Peres and other cabinet ministers warned Sharon against saying what he said in public because "it would cause us a public relations disaster."
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The US's acts of terrorism are covert...we conduct terrorism all over the world and then deny that we did anything.  \n\nWe shouldn't be involved in the middle east like we are, but America does what it wants in the name of protecting Americans and protecting those in the world that need our help...kinda makes you wonder why we do nothing in Somalia...and why we didn't bother entering WW2 until we were attacked...
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You're kidding right?  The US has lost more Int'l. crediblity than at any other time in it's history and it will take decades to repair it and it will make fighting the war on terror that much harder because foreign govts. have little if any trust in the US.  The US has become isolationists not by choice but by default (most of the rest of the world, except Israel, can't stand the US diplomatically).
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Israel is a terrorist state and the US are supporting them because they have an interest in keeping the region unstable, also because public opinion in the US is mainly geared towards supporting Israel against its Arab neighbours. There is a good deal of hidden racism there, Israel is seen as "one of us" against those non-Christian barbarians.\nUnless the US public start demanding a change in politics, the slaughter of civilians and the total disregard for the rights of the Palestinians will go on.\n\nIn Europe there is already a visible swing away from that, and I hope it will spread over the Atlantic.
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Israel provides the United States ZERO benefits, they've been convicted of spying on us ((the Pollard case was described by Caspar Weinberger as the MOST SEVERE IMAGINABLE THREAT to American national security)), and they deliberately attacked the USS Liberty, KILLING 44 & INJURING MORE THAN 200 >>>\n\nIsrael also sold US-Technology to the Chinese\nIsraeli spies tracked most of the September 11th hijackers, but did not share any of their findings with USintelligence.
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very good question; the only reason the US supports israel is because of the jew-dominated politicians.. its the entire reason WHY we're fighting the middle east.. its because we support them when their own land belongs to palestinians!\n\nif we ditched israel, the conflict would end quickly
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Many reasons why US govt considers important.\n\n1.  Base in Middle East - Israel is the ally that keeps the power of the arabs in check and offers unquestionable support to US for that privilege. Oil is a serious issue, and Middle East is the largest supplier of oil. As long as the Arab states keep fighting each other, the OPEC is weak. Offering permanent solutions to Middle East problem is very harmful for world economy. So we keep stirring the pot once in a while.....to keep our SUVs going!\n\n2.  Finance and Academics : Jews control 40% of the FInancial and Educational Sector in the US. The economy would collapse without their support. FLight of capital and intelligence (brain drain) is a very serious and detrimental phenomenon in the modern world.\n\n3. Jews have nowhere else to go but the handful of Palestinians can be absorbed by the arab world. Should Israel caese to exist, the failure of US govt to support will create a civil war within US!\n\n4. There are more, many more reasons...but these are the primary IMO.
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We are not attacking Islam- we are defending our country, going after terrorists, and we believed we needed to go to Iraq to aid in that arena- and took Sadaam out in the process for the atrocities he has committed in his time as Dicator of Iraq- killing his own people by tht  thousands and allowing them no freedom.  These terrorists just happen to be Muslim or Islamic.\n\nThere are Islamic people all over the world, including USA- we are not attacking them- some of them are peace loving people, and some are even on our side- even In Iraq, and are glad we are there.\n\nIsrael is one of our allies, and has helped us in time of need as well- for your reading pleasure:)\n\nOn 27 June 1976, an Air France airliner on a flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris, was, after making a stop at Athens, hijacked and flown to Entebbe. Israel was initially willing to negotiate with the terrorists, who belonged to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, while at the same time exploring the military possibilities. On 4 July, the Israeli army, in a daring operation, rescued the hijacked passengers from Entebbe and returned them to Israel. The operation electrified the world and dealt a major blow to Arab terror. The Prime Minister, in a special session of the Knesset, explained Israel's reasons for the rescue mission. Text:\n\nMr. Speaker, Members of the Knesset,\n\nIn a bold, resourceful and sophisticated effort, the Israel Defence Forces have succeeded in carrying out the decision of the government of Israel to save and liberate from captivity the passengers of the Air France plane, who were hijacked by Palestinian terrorists and kept prisoners in Uganda, with their lives in danger. In the battle of liberation, three of the Israeli civilian passengers of the plane were killed and one officer fell in the fight.\n\nThe Israel Defence Forces have achieved one of their most exemplary victories from both the human and moral and the military-operational points of view, a remarkable manifestation of Jewish fraternity and Israeli valour.\n\nTogether with the families who have lost their dear ones, we mourn our dead, uniformed and civilians, victims of the vile Arab terrorism, and send to the wounded our best wishes for their recovery.\n\nhttp://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_entebbe.php
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i beleive it should be. america britian and israel need to reconize that people have diff cultures and diff views this is what is left of the palestinians land that was stolen from them. so if america is true to their word then they should have to reconize a democratic vote taken by the palestinian people. these three countries want to control the middle east. they did not do like in afghanistan and appoint a president. did u know the afghani president worked here in texas for bushes oil company? here had no political knowledge before hand. sorry to say it but in america if u are not with america u are against it and considered a terrorist. no matter what we try to say about freedom there is no such thing.
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It would be very difficult for the U.S. and Israel to accept Iran having nuclear weapons. I give it less than a year because I believe common wisdom is that Iran could have nuclear capability that soon. \n\nWho will be involved?\nUs and Israel mainly, with Bush trying to put together a coalition like he did with limited success for Iraq.\n\nWill this lead the Western world into an endless war with Islam? \nI don't think so, but this is why it's so important to foster democracy in Islamic countries.\n\nHow far off is a war with Iran and Israel, and when will the global community step in and stop the Iranian "president" from dictating us and threatining us with oil?\nThe "global community" won't do anything to stop Iran, in my opinion. They're all afraid of terrorist retaliation. Look at news organizations' reaction to the rioting over the cartoons. They're all afraid to run the cartoons.\n\nIs oil worth the threat of an arms race in the middle east?\nI don't quite understand this question. Are you saying we are somehow responsible for encouraging an arms race because we want middle east oil? An arms race between who and whom?
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Get it through your heads.  Israel has controlled American policy since 1948.  It's the "New World Order".
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America has the best interests of the world in it mind. I don't know if you know this, but Iran it what's called a theocracy, where the most zealous religious leader is also the country's governmental head. This may not seem that bad, and in many cases it isn't, but given the radical sects of Islam that hold power in that country, and given their goals to eradicate America and the infidels, I can't see how anyone would support giving them the capability to conduct nuclear warfare.\n\nEDIT: Also, remember this: "Caps Lock is the cruise control to cool!"
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I think the the Israeli Government is scared to death that the Democrats are taking over in the US, and that will lead to less support for them. Israel is a very small island in a sea of nations that want it destroyed and will stop at nothing to accomplish their goals. The Democrats are scaring me in this same regard.\n\nLet's not forget that Israel has nukes. We don't know how many and where they have them, but they do. They also have f_15 eagles to deliver them. If Iran develops a nuke, they will either use it themselves or give it to Hezbollah to deliver in a van or something, and if they set one off in Israel, Isreal will retaliate.\n\nIsrael knows that they can't hit a ghost so they will nuke Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and who knows how many others. The major portion of the world's oil supply will evaporate. Russia and China will respons, and some of their weapons will also be aimed at the USA. We would be forced to respond with nukes of our own, and we have a load of them. On top of that, the debris from the explosions will throw so much dust in the air that it would almost certainly create a nuclear winter that will destroy most of the plant and animal life on the planet. That will be the end of us all.\n\nThat's why I can't vote for a Democrat.
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israel can occupy where ever they want to as long as they can kill enough people to do it and have the united states to back them up. historically they have never been able to do very much on their own.
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Please do not take what this govt. does to be the will of the people.  Most of what happens inside and outside of this country is done by secret deals among the powerful.  Most of us detest what the Israelis are doing to their neighbors, and what their neighbors are doing to them, but our national policy is part of a deal most of us are ignorant of .  If you ask Americans, they are upset over a problem here of illegal immigration.  These are people who are not legal citizens who take up residence here to work, get paid, and then usually go back home.  The Jews moved in, forced everyone else out,confiscated the land, and established an army second to none, funded largely by the United States Government, and proceeded to enforce their will on the area.  If that happened here, the uproar would be every bit what exists where you are.  But, due to some clever propaganda on the public, we cannot see this clearly, and don't empathize with the Arabs at all, mostly blindly supporting our government's policy.  Israel was a bad idea that will haunt us all for a long time, maybe even being the cause of international war.  We here would love it to be otherwise, that everyone there would just get along.  That does not appear to be a likely  possibility.  And you are right, the longer it goes on, the more people in the Middle East will blame us.